Live It Up with Mountain Life

Siginaak Court Blackbird is the founder and executive director of the Indigenous Life Sport Academy, an organization providing Indigenous youth with access to unstructured sports like snowboarding, rock climbing, hiking and mountain biking to create social change and development in communities across Canada. And also, to connect to their territories and have fun. Host: Feet Banks Link to the books...

Emma Segal is a disruptive designer by trade but she’s also an author, artist, master of the infographic, educator, chef and someone who is probably going to be hands-on involved when we figure out how to save the world. She has a new cookbook out and schools Feet on everything from asparagus-urine odours to the intentional design behind almost every aspect of our lives. Host: Feet Banks

Jim McLennan is a fly fishing guide, instructor, television personality and author. After a life on the water you might even call him a purist, which is awesome because he has taught thousands of people to throw flies over the years and passed along—first-hand—much of the old-school knowledge and philosophy that’s also found in his writing. Jim’s latest book is Trout Tracks , a collection of essay...

In 2005, with $20,00 earned the hard way (a car hit him while he was riding his bicycle), Robin Esrock embarked on a 23-country round-the-world tour with no real plan except to say yes to everything and let the weirdness lead the way. Along the way, he invented travel blogging (for better or for worse), kicked off a storied television and publishing career and became one of the most interesting du...

Frank Wolf is the kind of guy who just heads out there into the wild and cranks off incredible trips and adventures. I.e., a 171-day paddle across Canada or a ski tour across Baffin Island. He’s an author, a photographer, a filmmaker and on this episode he talks about bigfoot, lunching with a Prime Minister in stinking paddling gear, and why getting out there is easier than people think. Host: Fee...

Tony Richardson is a big wall climber and an industrial designer who has created gear for top-of-the-game outdoor brands, as well as up-and-comers. He's a tinkerer and a perfectionist and sometimes he has to accept that they've already made ten thousand of the plastic clip he suddenly knows how to make better. He also has a sick mullet. This one is for the gear junkies! Host: Feet Banks

Lisa Lefroy has been described as the happiest person to ever ride a bike. A pioneer in the world of freeride mountain biking, Lisa's stoke for the shred and entrepreneurial spirit has taken her around the globe as an athlete, agent and seat-of-her-pants event producer. These days she's back in Squamish spreading the stoke through her unique bike rental company bikinginsquamish.com. We c...

Long-distance athlete Hilary Matheson says that whenever she’s out in nature shooting photos, her experience as a runner and an athlete helps her better anticipate where the raw and authentic moments are going to turn up.  Host: Feet Banks

We catch up with professional backcountry skier Tatum Monod to talk about hunting, fishing, baking pies, growing up in a ski shop, colour-coordinated closets and her latest ski film project Passage , available now on Red Bull TV. Host: Feet Banks

To celebrate the end of 2021 we're taking it back to the old school to talk ski films with legendary Canadian filmmaker Christian Begin and Heavy Hitting director Travis Tetreault. Both celebrated notable anniversaries of key films in their careers this year (25 and 20 years), and both have lots to say about the old ways, the ski bum lifestyle and why they miss VHS. Parental Advisory: there a...

As ski season begins, British Columbia is reeling in a state of weather-induced emergency and even the crustiest deniers are starting to talk about the real effects of the climate crisis. Ian McIntosh has long been an advocate for climate action, but he's also veteran skier with roots in racing and freeski comps, and a film and ski career that has spanned almost two decades and taken Ian to s...

It's time to talk art with contemporary Indigenous artist Levi Nelson. Coming from the Lil'wat Nation in southwestern British Columbia, Levi is one of the most exciting artists in Canada today and Feet caught up with him just before Levi took off to start his Master's degree at Columbia University in New York City.  Host: Feet Banks

Sarah Bulford (AKA @mountaindarlin) traded her lifetime of self-propelled adventure for an enduro dirtbike and never looked back. But with each new milestone of success, her social media platforms got more and more toxic. Feet Banks sits down with Sarah to talk braap babes, toxic masculinity and the real value of free advice. 

Is there a danger in turning what you love into what you do for a living? Is the outdoor industry at risk of losing the fun in all that seriousness? Not if you're Brett Tippie there isn't. Host Feet Banks sits down with the legend of two sports—who's been a professional athlete for over three decades—to talk about art, shredding, e-bikes, jokes and the new Brett Tippie Podcast. Join...

Jon Turk earned a Ph. D. in organic chemistry in 1971 and was nominated by National Geographic as one of the Top Ten Adventurers of the Year in 2012.  Between those bookends, he co-authored the first college-level environmental science textbook in North America, (plus 35 other texts) and five books about his many adventures—which include kayaking around Cape Horn and across the North Pacific from...

For our inaugural foray into living it up on the airwaves, Mountain Life Coast Mountains editor Feet Banks sits down with legendary climber/alpinist Tim Emmett to talk about getting outside, getting gnarly, knowing when to pull back from a goal, and why having a kid changes the game. So sharpen those edges and oil those chains, it's time to Live it Up.