Mountain Guide

With winter approaching, if you feel you’re not quite ready for the annual deep freeze, Pine Tree Players will warm you up with its new comedy, This Ruddy Desert. This Ruddy Desert features several firsts for the local theatre company.

Amanda Lindhout was back in Canmore last week for a pair of book readings from her new memoir A House in the Sky, written with co- author Sara Corbett.

“Mom would be washing clothes and I used to hear music coming out of that machine.

With Banff being home to a couple of former coal towns in Anthracite and Bankhead, what better place for the Coal Creek Boys to stop in and perform? The Boys, named after a small coal mining town in B.C.

For artist, author and conservationist Maureen Enns, life may seem like a series of flukes that drop out of the sky, with one remarkable project leading to the next.

If you’re looking for a good time, want to assist a good cause and listen to Juno award winning bands, Wild Bill’s will be the place to be, Nov. 2.

For Julia Lynx, music and life are pretty much synonymous, but not when it comes to instruments. The Canmore resident can strum a guitar, but she makes no claims of being able to play musical instruments. What she can do, however, is sing.

While golden eagles are in flight high above the Bow Valley, intent on their southward migration, on the valley floor residents will celebrate their arrival with the Festival of Eagles this weekend, Oct. 18-19.

With snow creeping down the mountainsides toward the valley bottom and nightly temperatures dipping below freezing, now might be the perfect time for a quilt show. Imagine snuggling under a hand-crafted quilt on cold winter nights.

As many people are aware, especially in western Alberta, Jasper Ab. and Tunnel Mountain are classic Rocky Mountain locations. As fewer people are aware, though, “Jasper Ab.