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Notes After pounding out 17 laps in three hours on the Lone Pine run off Norquay’s North American chair, Adam Siltanen is the 2015 Mountain Smoker champion. The Sault Ste.

Notes Katherine Stewart-Jones skied to 25th place in the junior women’s five-kilometre skate-ski race at the Nordic Junior World Skiing Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Wednesday (Feb. 4).

n a heartbreak of a finish, Canmore’s Michelle Katchur Roberts was edged out on the last few metres of the course to take third place just nine second behind U.S.

or the second year in a row, the Banff Hockey Academy Bears prep team is in the playoffs. The Bears clinched a spot in the Heritage Junior Hockey League big show with a 7-3 win over Stettler on Saturday (Jan.

The rhythmic roar of Niagara Falls’ two million litres per second of ice cold water rushing beside Sarah Hueniken was more intimidating than she had thought it would be, but she couldn’t pass up “once in a lifetime opportunity” all climbers dream abo

It’s rare that an athlete in the midst of a rough season ends up with a gold medal at world championships, but such was the case for Brian McKeever. McKeever and guide Erik Carleton struck gold on Sunday (Jan.

Alex Harvey salvaged another world cup weekend for Canada with a ninth-place finish in the 30-kilometre skiathlon pursuit race in Rybinsk Russia on Sunday (Jan. 25).

Sick of watching his girlfriend Rosanna Crawford kick his butt on the world cup, Canmore’s Brendan Green finally decided to do something about it. Green had the best race of his career on Thursday (Jan.

The Bow Valley maintains its reputation as a small but mighty producer of national level athletes, as it will send 11 athletes to the Canada Winter Games in Prince George from Feb. 13 to March 1.

A posse of Bow Valley climbers stole the podium at the 20th annual Ouray Ice Festival earlier this month at North America’s biggest ice climbing event in Ouray, Colorado.