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Mountain Culture Group The home of Kootenay Mountain Culture Magazine and our story haus: Mountain Culture Group. You have to pick them up. So thick you can open your beer with one.

Not just because they’re free, but because they’re so darn good. Honest. So content-rich, they’re kept for years. With 20 years publishing experience, Kootenay Mountain Culture Magazine is
a deeply influential, award‑winning publication coveted for its cutting-edge writing, beautiful design and superlative photography.

06/12/2024
There are some very cool things happening in the mountain home space right now, and we're excited to share the following...
06/11/2024

There are some very cool things happening in the mountain home space right now, and we're excited to share the following from our friends at f2a architecture (https://www.f2a.ca/). Based out of Nelson and Revelstoke, f2a's work as a distinct focus on climate resilience, peace, and prosperity in both human and natural systems.

Check out their "Steeps House"

Do you dream of hiking pillow lines out your back door? f2a architecture + construction has made the hike – building an all-natural loft house on a wild ridge at the foot of the Kokanee Range.

The Steeps House main roof pitches west onto a south-sloping canopy. The form encloses a loft, a great room, and a wood stove at its heart, opening onto a covered deck overlooking the beach. East windows open to a mountain stream and a cedar grove.

Designed not only to feel connected when complete, but to remediate the land as part of the construction process, the house was timber-framed of standing-dead fir, pine, and cedar. Removing dead trees from the forest, milling them, and mulching the waste reduces the carbon footprint of forest transition, accelerates adaptation, and improves wildfire resilience. The house is insulated with straw and clad in thin corrugated steel, sequestering carbon and providing robust insulation and fire resistance. When fitted with shutters, the house will idle, resisting energy bills and disaster, while its owners go surfing.

The project has been laborious but inexpensive. Much of its cost paid to local craftspeople to create their art, and in doing so, remediate the land.

01/11/2024
Time to get a little spooky...
31/10/2024

Time to get a little spooky...

‘Tis the season to get spooky!

In “The Paranormal” episode, we delve into the Kootenay’s spirit world. Meet psychic intuitive Norm Pratt, whose unique gift allows him to communicate with missing persons, helping families find closure. Along the way, we go on a ghost walk with Nelson’s Paranormal League.

And we chat Brennan Storr, a writer and podcaster with The Ghost Story Guys Finally Made a Group who lives in Revelstoke and who goes deep into the “Strange Little Places” of the area.

You can listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts or via the link in our bio.

The Headwaters is brought to you by Columbia Basin Trust and hosted by Mitchell Scott of Mountain Culture Group.

28/10/2024
22/10/2024

Could the humble beaver be the saviour the Columbia Basin needs when it comes to maintaining a healthy freshwater supply? This woman thinks so.

Marcy Mahr is the Kootenay Connect Manager with Kootenay Conservation Program and has a widespread reputation for proactively pulling together partnerships and creating collaborations to protect biodiversity. And she's also a fan of the beaver because of its water-engineering prowess.

To learn more about how beavers are having a positive impact on Kootenay watersheds, listen to our "Finding Freshwater" episode wherever you get your podcasts or here: https://headwaterspodcast.com/episode/finding-freshwater/

The Headwaters is brought to you by Columbia Basin Trust and hosted by Mitchell Scott of Mountain Culture Group.

We're incredibly saddened to learn the news that musical protegé Nell Smith has died. She was only 17.We featured the Fe...
11/10/2024

We're incredibly saddened to learn the news that musical protegé Nell Smith has died. She was only 17.

We featured the Fernie musician in Season One's "Young Dreamers" episode in which she talks about her experience meeting and then recording with superstar band The Flaming Lips.

Nell was indeed a young dreamer who acted on her aspirations and accomplished more in her 17 years than many do in a lifetime.

She was an inspiration.

To learn more about her incredible accomplishments, read Kootenay Mountain Culture's recent article that includes links to her videos and songs:

https://kootenaymountainculture.com/living-bigger-than.../

We will miss you, Nell.

Nell Smith, the young and talented musician from Fernie, British Columbia, tragically died this past week at the age of 17. In May 2023—a month before Nell Smith, the young and talented musician from Fernie, British Columbia, tragically died this past week at the age of 17.

We're incredibly saddened to learn the news that musical protégé Nell Smith has died. She was only 17.We featured the Fe...
10/10/2024

We're incredibly saddened to learn the news that musical protégé Nell Smith has died. She was only 17.

We featured the Fernie musician in the Winter 2023/24 Issue of Kootenay Mountain Culture Magazine in which she talks about her experience meeting and then recording with superstar band The Flaming Lips. We also shared her amazing story via the Headwaters Podcast episode called "Young Dreamers."

Nell was indeed a young dreamer who acted on her aspirations and accomplished more in her 17 years than many do in a lifetime.

She was an inspiration.

To learn more about her incredible accomplishments, read the following article that includes links to her videos and songs: https://kootenaymountainculture.com/living-bigger-than-the-bubble/

We will miss you, Nell.

07/10/2024

Whether climbing mountains or cross-country skiing well into our eighties or outlasting nine other competitors on the world’s most popular survival show, we do a good job of Stayin’ Alive here in the Basin. Meet modern survivalists who make a living by living outdoors, as well as members of the Kimberley Search and Rescue team. You’ll also hear a harrowing account from a survivor of a grizzly-bear attack in this last episode of season three.

Listen to the "Staying Alive" episode wherever you get your podcasts, on YouTube, or at https://headwaterspodcast.com/

The Headwaters is brought to you by Columbia Basin Trust and hosted by Mitchell Scott of Mountain Culture Group.

Episode  #29 is up for your listening pleasure!
26/09/2024

Episode #29 is up for your listening pleasure!

💥 Episode Drop 💥

A community-focused music festival, a symphony for a glacier, a small-town spoken word artist: what do they all have in common? An intention to make the world a better place through the power of art. In this episode, we’ll talk to writers, visual artists, storytellers and arts professionals, people whose work and creative practices in the Kootenays are helping to inspire systems to change.

➡ Have a listen wherever you get your podcasts, on YouTube, or at https://headwaterspodcast.com/episode/episode-29-art-for-change/

The Headwaters is brought to you by Columbia Basin Trust and hosted by Mitchell Scott of Mountain Culture Group.

Another epic aftermovie from the good folks at Shambhala Music Festival and Sweetgrass Productions. Who was there?
20/09/2024

Another epic aftermovie from the good folks at Shambhala Music Festival and Sweetgrass Productions. Who was there?

How would you explain Shambhala? Some say that it is the most magical place on earth. We'll let the memories speak for themselves 💜Thank you to everyone who...

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You have to pick them up. Not just because they’re free, but because they’re so darn good. So thick you can open your beer with one. Honest. So content-rich, they’re kept for years. With over 15 years publishing experience, Kootenay Mountain Culture Magazine and Coast Mountain Culture Magazine are deeply influential, award‑winning publications coveted for their cutting-edge writing, beautiful design and superlative photography.