Mountain Guide

My favourite fly fishing author has always been John Gierach.

Homesick and penniless in New York City in 1927, a young Russian immigrant decides to walk home by heading west. Her journey takes her across the United States, up through Canada and into Alaska.

Bri-anne Swan takes any chance she can get to play in Canmore. “I like the community, there’s a really vibrant arts community in Canmore,” she said in an interview last week.

Your friends from the city are in town and are sick of that damn Grassi Lakes Trail.

This year’s Canmore Folk Music Festival was a big hit – with the performers. Jason Wilson, who played Sunday (July 31) evening with Dick Gaughan, said it was his first time at the festival and he loved every moment of it.

The Rainbow Mountains comprise a small range on the Alberta/B.C. border which include Mount Robson, as well as the mountains surrounding the Canadian Rockies’ highest peak.

Ontario artist Mitchell Fenton paints with his feet. While he isn’t physically putting a brush between his toes, Fenton relies on the ‘getting there’, preferably by foot – especially in the Rocky Mountains – to prime his artistic pump.

Michael Bernard Fitzgerald was full of excitement after playing the opening main-stage performance at the Canmore Folk Music Festival, Saturday (July 30). “I love Canmore,” he said.

Canada’s Rocky Mountains mean many things to many people – playgrounds for climbers and skiers, symbols of inspiration for painters and sculptors and fascinating research sites for geologists and biologists.

Drawing from a 30-year career as a kidney specialist, Robert Allan Bear has penned a sensitive and thoughtful account of life in a dialysis unit that invites us to not only consider our health care system, but what it means to be a patient suffering