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The ATB GranFondo Highwood Pass event is using pedal power to combat neurological disorders thanks to a new partnership with the Branch Out Neurological Foundation.

In the season of the alpine indie darling, Larissa Yurkiw grabbed all the headlines, finishing the season as the fastest female skier in the world not named Lindsay Vonn.

A couple of mountain slope wipeouts started Cole Richardson's freeriding season. Not quite the start anyone would want for their first official year as a freerider, but those memories seem like years ago for the newly crowned champ.

California cycling fans were let in on a little Bow Valley secret at the Redlands Bicycle Classic: Sara Poidevin is queen of the mountain.

A new website linking athletes with affordable accommodation for training camps and competition is hunting for billets in Canmore. In partnership with Canoe Kayak Canada, www.staybillety.

It is over. The final race of the Canmore Nordic Centre’s biggest season since 1988 is in the books, as ski racers chased the last points of the season in a bid to make the Alberta provincial team on April 1-3.

Four of Canada’s top adventure athletes launched an assault on one of the Bow Valley’s most daunting mountain challenges, but were beaten back by avalanches and quickly changing conditions.

The gossamer melody of Swiss folk music wafted through the Mount Norquay ski lodge, and the nature of the party was unmistakable. The sharp nose of Swiss cheese, suspenders, lederhosen and Eddie Hunter conversing with ghosts.

One of Canada’s most colourful and controversial cross-country skiers, Kevin Sandau, is retiring from the sport.

Family and fondue have won out over world cup racing for Banff ski cross racer Louis-Pierre Helie. The 2010 Olympian officially retired from the Canadian national ski cross team on Monday (April 4).