Mountain Guide

For those who missed Through the Lens at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies earlier this year, there’s a new opportunity to see the student-created photographs when the exhibition opens this week at the Canmore Museum and Geoscience Centre.

Peter Katz returns to Canmore this Saturday (April 27) for his fourth time playing the Valley, at Communitea Cafe. His last appearance, one year ago, came just as he was releasing his second studio album, Still Mind Still.

Red Moon Road is a band who’s beginnings seem almost mythological.

If you’ve left Toronto for Western Canada and hit snow everywhere you go, including three feet in Saskatoon, then move on to the Bow Valley and its recent snowfall, you’re either a winter version of a stormchaser or you’re on the Third Worst Tour Eve

If you were one of many people turned away from a recent presentation on wildflowers held in Canmore, take heart, Ian Wilson and Jacinthe Lavoie are offering it again next week.

The Cowboy Junkies are heading west for a tour of the cowboy lands. Playing this Sunday (April 21) at The Banff Centre’s Eric Harvie Theatre, the band is also playing off-the-beaten locales, including Cochrane, Medicine Hat and St. Albert.

It’d be a crime to miss the sweet sounds of Sweet Alibi. The three-piece Winnipeg-based roots group plays the Elk & Oarsman in Banff on Sunday (April 14), where they’ll also be joined by a keyboardist.

Since you’re reading this, clearly you’ve survived the Mayans’ and others’ predicted end of days date of Dec. 21, 2012.

Researchers studying the future of water and ice in Canada are predicting that by the year 2100, glaciers and icefields in the Canadian Rockies will have melted.

Usually, when someone has a moment, it’s something to forget about. But not in Amar Athwal’s case. The Banff local repeatedly has his moments and is more than willing to share them. But it’s not what you think.