News & Site Updates
Mar 10
Powder Highway Ultimate Ski Bum Vlog
We’ve been getting lots of requests from KMC readers as to the whereabouts and current activities of the Powder Highway Ultimate Ski Bum winner, Chris Tatsuno. I had the privilege of meeting Chris this past weekend at the Kootenay Coldsmoke Powder Festival. He’s a card, a ripper, a read down home skier dude. I managed [...] Read the whole post.
Mar 9
Pillow Line by Kari Medig
Nelson-based photographer Kari Medig recently won the Kootenay Coldsmoke Powder Festival’s Coldshot Photo Competition held this past weekend at Whitewater Winter Resort. One of the premiere events, hosted by Kootenay Mountain Culture Magazine and Arc’teryx, the Coldshot Photo Competition gives 5 photographers 4 days to tell their best winter story without leaving the confines of [...] Read the whole post.
Mar 8
HH Big Mountain Battle – Fernie
Helly Hansen’s Big Mountain Battle Series just wound up it’s Revelstoke Mountain Resort stop, here’s a look at the comp when it hit Fernie a few weeks ago. The helmet cam POV gives you a good sense of this unique competition as it has entrants scramble all over the mountain in the effort to be [...] Read the whole post.
Mar 5
The Surface Hoars Are Big
If you’ve been out and about in the BC interior backcountry lately, you’ve seen them. You’ve also seen what a buried layer of them are doing to avalanche prone slopes. It’s super sketchy out there, and once it snows (it will snow) it’s going to be majorly superly sketchy. Enjoy the sun, be happy, but [...] Read the whole post.
Feb 11
Heading to Baldface
Snow’s in the forecast, and there just happens to be this great lodge not too far from our offices in downtown Nelson. Across the lake, up along a beautiful creek and into the beautiful bowls and peaks of the mighty Selkirks. Baldface Lodge is a favorite destination of skiers and snowboarders the world over, and [...] Read the whole post.
Feb 9
Greening the Cube
Locally Produced Documentary on Green Building Returns To Nelson For Second Run: Transition Nelson Sponsors Capitol Theatre Event
Back by popular demand, documentary film “Greening the Cube: 100-Mile Housing” returns to Nelson for a single showing on Monday, February 22nd, at the historic Capitol Theatre.
Sponsored in part by Transition Nelson, the 83 minute film follows two [...] Read the whole post.
Feb 4
Awesome Toe Letter
This came in from a reader in Whitefish, Montana. A doctor who’s really concerned I have mutated feet. And no, thankfully, these toes are not mine. However, mine, as you can read in this story, might be equally as bad. Thanks for the letter Doug.
Hi Mitchell,
Great Mag. I pick it up at The White Room, [...] Read the whole post.
Jan 28
Dave Heath Blogs
He’s one our all time favourite photographers. The enigmatic, mystical, not afraid of anything Dave Heath. The Nelson-based photographer has been a staple in titles like Powder, Bike and of course, KMC, for years. Check out his latest offerings here.
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Jan 21
This Site is Fresh!
Kootenay Mountain Culture Magazine Launches New Website.
Based in Nelson, BC, with a growing readership and an emerging reputation as one of the most coveted outdoor publications in western North America, KMC magazine recently restructured their website around the growing move towards a content management based web system.
“We’re finally up to speed when it [...] Read the whole post.
Jan 21
Rev – The Movie
Check out the first big ski/snowboard movie to come out of Revelstoke. Produced by Vance Shaw of TGR fame, Rev takes viewers deep into the history and current depth of Revelstoke’s amazingly, well, deep ski scene. See more at the Rev website.
Rev Tour Dates
Friday, January 22 – 8:30pm – Outabounds, Revelstoke
Sunday, January 24 – [...] Read the whole post.
Jan 21
New West Kootenay Backcountry Guide
The first of it’s kind for the region, the newly minted West Kootenay Touring Guide provides backcountry riders with complete descriptions of tours throughout the area: from Salmo-Creston Pass to Whitewater slack country and beyond. It features more info on locating the right trailhead, detailed directions for your skin up, options for your descent and [...] Read the whole post.
Jan 15
Scott Dickson – The Artiste
He’s one of our favourite artists, and has done numerous works for us over the years. Scott Dickson. Here’s some samples of his work. To see more, find him on Facebook. To email him about commissioned works, which he does so well, use flyingw@telus.net.
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Dec 9
Backyard Booty Cometh…Again
It was another glorious evening of multimedia marvelousness. The 6th Annual Backyard Booty at Nelson’s Capitol Theatre. A sold out crowd was treated to a diverse line-up of film shorts, slideshows and storytelling. Presenters like Lifecycles, Freeride Entertainment’s Jeremy Grant, photographers Dave Heath and Kari Medig combined with the some youngblood talent to make for one [...] Read the whole post.