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Live It Up with Mountain Life is a collection of conversations about life in the wilderness with the people who do it best. Discussions about adventure, conservation, missions & mishaps, and all the great stories and inspiration nature provides, host Feet Banks wades into the wilds with some of the outdoor world's most intriguing characters. Sharpen your edges and grease up those chains, 'cause you don't wanna miss this one. (Warning: Podcast may contain occasional adult language, mature concepts, and other awesome shit.)
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Ben Poechman is a snowboarder and an artist and a true-grit farm kid who finds a way to make things happen with the resources he's got. As summer winds down and we start looking at the pow days to come, Ben chimes in with his story, his ideas, and some good advice on what to do when all you have to ride is a crappy ditch in the middle of the country. Watch Ben in the North Face flick Halation if you wanna see him shred before listening to this pod, or look at his artwork on Soulboarder.ca War...
Spencer Seabrooke is an airtime master, a highliner, base jumper, a snowboarder, climber, mountaineer, jindle boarder and all-around adventure seeking kinda dude. And he knows a lot about airtime. In 2016 he was featured in the highlining documentary "Untethered" walking a then-world record highline in Squamish BC with no safety tether. He's also known as a co-founder of SlacklifeBC, Canada's best slack line community/shop, and has a bonkers-awesome instagram feed you definitely want to check...
Sonnie Trotter is a climber and an author. Raised in Ontario, he started climbing as a teenager and never looked back. Over the past 25+ years Sonnie has pioneered some of the hardest routes in Canada and been on big walls all over the world with other icons of the sport. He's climbed competitively, professionally, and has also spent months on the road travelling and climbing with his wife and kids. And throughout it all, he never lost that love and that drive that fueled him as a teenager. H...
Stephan Kesting is on the show today. He’s an adventurer and an author (and a jui jitsu master and a firefighter) who recently paddled a canoe over 1600 km through some of the most bug infested terrain in Northern Canada...alone, on a single, transplanted kidney. And it took him 41 days, which is pretty wild considering a whole lot of the journey was paddling upstream. Stephan talks about the risks of complacency, the will to carry on, and what it's like to really stare down your own mortalit...
Jody MacDonald has sailed around the world twice but says she got seasick almost every day for ten years. She’s also visited over 100 countries and creates incredible, award winning photographs everywhere she goes. To celebrate International Women's Day, host Feet Banks gets the honour of connecting with Jody as she motorcycles through the Himalaya to discuss ditching the office job, leaning into your passion, and the value of insignificance in the face of nature's most vast spaces. Find Jody...
Darren Rayner grew up making fun little movies and shred edits with his buddies and, when he was still in college, co-founded Voleurz, a badass, grassroots Canadian clothing company that also made films and generally helped push mountain culture down a more creative path. As time went by, Darren pivoted a bit and founded Magnafire Media, a Vancouver-based creative studio and production facility that creates videos for brands that want to stand out and get noticed. NOTE: there are a couple of ...
Happy Holidays! We’re re-gifting this episode. Well, not really. It’s a brand new episode but, for the first time ever, we are having a guest back on the pod for round two. Frank Wolf is on the show today. It’s the Re-Wolf. Writing his own epitaph on a freezing trip in the Arctic, Frank says, “Frank was a somewhat notable person who wrote some things and made a few strange and mediocre films about esoteric outdoor subjects.” Which is not wrong, but there's more to this adventurer ...
Alenka Mali is a big mountain snowboarder, climber, BASE jumper, jindleboarder and general mountain sport badass. Last winter, she produced a film called "The Beginning", which examines her unique mountain-based upbringing in Slovenia and Argentina and her quest to do a snowboard BASE jump in the mountains near her home in Squamish, BC. Instagram: @alenkaamali website: alenkamali.com
On September 8, 2022 everything went sideways for Charlie Adams. He had a little side hustle working as a tree surgeon. He was working on a tree in Tiny Township. It was the last tree of the day. He was 35 feet up when disaster struck. “The tree split and broke underneath me,” he recalls. “I rode it to the ground then another piece came down and hit me. So I broke my neck, which wasn’t too serious. I broke my back which was the big accident. I had 13 rib fractures, a fractured scapula a...
Most anyone who’s paid attention to any ski or bike mags over the past two decades should know who Blake is. He has more than 300 covers to his credit, a photo of the year award from Powder Magazine and there’s a pretty good chance many of your favourite outdoor images were crafted by his mind, eye, lens and work ethic. He's a genius, a father, a successful commercial photographer, but most of all he’s always thinking, and he values the art above almost anything else. Blakejorgenson.com Host...
For the 50th episode of Live it Up with Mountain Life, host Feet Banks connects with Sandy Ward (Kelkeláokik)—snowboarder, mountain biker, filmmaker, guide to be, and a trailblazer at helping indigenous youth enjoy and reconnect to the land and their culture through sport. With a big movie about to premiere at Crankworx Whistler's Dirt Diaries contest, Sandy discusses the hectic pace of being a quadruple threat talent, her award-winning film Slides on the Mountain, her work with the next gene...
The briefest history of Great Lakes surfing according to Grumpy Bob: The Wyldewood Surf Club was formed in 1965 out of Port Colbourne, Ontario and from its very beginnings was an international club with both Canadian and American members. Wyldewood Surf Club member Bob Sobering (AKA Grumpy Bob) began surfing in 1970, then picked it up again in the '90s. He’s a divisive figure in the Great Lakes surf scene. And in 2017 when Colin Field interviewed him for the Mountain Life Annual story "The Fi...
Mountain Gazette owner, publisher, and editor Mike Rogge is on the front lines of preserving print media and promoting the value of an analog experience. The Gazette is currently tallest poppy in what seems to be a fairly healthy ecosystem of magazines aimed at outdoor people who understand the power of a physical experience and want something tangible out of life. He also really loves skiing. mountaingazette.com Host: Feet Banks
Imagine losing everything in the wilds of the Northwest Territories. That's what happened to Chris Larkin. After living for two winters alone in a cabin in the wilderness, his canoe capsized on the infamous Mountain River. Larkin lost everything except his knife, a couple of matches and the clothes on his back. There were over 200 kilometres between him and civilization. 200 kilometres of relentless, wild terrain. The mighty Mackenzie River lay between him and salvation too. For the next ten ...
They call Jazmine Lowther "the Gazelle." Not because she grazes on grasslands and can grow antlers out of her head, but because she's very fast and nimble. An all-round mountain athlete and member of The North Face team, Jazmine has recently been turning heads as an elite ultra runner, competing with the world's best on 50km to 100 km courses around the globe. She also writes about endurance training, nutrition, women’s health, motivation and more. jazminelowther.com. Host: Feet Banks
Feet Banks connects with Stan Rey, a master of the goggle tan and one of the most personable professional freeskiers in the game. Always ready to joke around in front of the camera and happy to share the stoke or his knowledge with anyone who needs it, Stan is a natural-born backflipper who grew up mostly in Whistler and has raced gates, ski cross and into the hearts of freeski fans around the world with his charm, skills and philosophy of putting fun first. PARENTAL ADVISORY: 3 naughty...
Today's guest is legendary ski mountaineer Greg Hill. Back in 2010 he was all over ski media; he climbed and skied two million vertical feet, climbing 71 mountains in both North and South America over 266 days of ski-touring. He was the first North American to climb and ski 40,000 vertical feet in 24 hours and he even set a world record of 50,000 feet in 24 hours. Simply put, the man is a machine. Since those accomplishments, he's dedicated much of his time to being a better human being from...
Mercedes Nicoll has competed in four winter Olympics for women’s halfpipe, and seven world championships. She’s been the Canadian National Champ five times, has eight world cup podiums and is a shining example of what it means to love competition and the camaraderie of sport. These days she’s a coach, a writer, a public speaker, an organizer of fun, and host of the podcast Dropping In with Mercedes Nicoll. Fun fact: Feet Banks once saw Shania Twain pause between songs at a stadium show in Van...
Katie Burrell is a comedian, writer, director, actress and creator of numerous online videos and skits such as Influencer, Dream Job, Still Solo, Toxic Mountain Bike Girlfriend and more. She's one of the most recognizable figures in the ski community and has broken new ground using comedy to poke fun at, and invite people into, the sports we love. Katie’s first feature film, Weak Layers, opened internationally in early 2024 and she’s here talking about betting on herself and her ideas to make...
For much of his life, Michael Janyk was a professional alpine skier—a technical master banging gates on slalom and giant slalom courses around the world over a 14-year professional career that included three Olympic Games, one of them on his home turf in Whistler BC. And while saw some success (and knows what it’s like to stand on a world championship podium) Mike didn’t hit that childhood dream benchmark of Olympic gold, or "Best in the World." And while that is a common experience for nearl...
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