Live It Up with Mountain Life
Live It Up with Mountain Life is a collection of conversations about life in the wilderness with the people who do it best. Discussions about adventure, conservation, missions & mishaps, and all the great stories and inspiration nature provides, host Feet Banks wades into the wilds with some of the outdoor world's most intriguing characters. Sharpen your edges and grease up those chains, 'cause you don't wanna miss this one. (Warning: Podcast may contain occasional adult language, mature concepts, and other awesome shit.)
Episodes
57 episodes
E58 — Stephan Kesting
Stephan Kesting is on the show today. He’s an adventurer and an author (and a jui jitsu master and a firefighter) who recently paddled a canoe over 1600 km through some of the most bug infested terrain in Northern Canada...alone, on a single, t...
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Season 4
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Episode 58
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1:12:36
E57 — Jody MacDonald
Jody MacDonald has sailed around the world twice but says she got seasick almost every day for ten years. She’s also visited over 100 countries and creates incredible, award winning photographs everywhere she goes. To celebrate International Wo...
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Season 4
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Episode 57
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1:11:59
E56 — Darren Rayner
Darren Rayner grew up making fun little movies and shred edits with his buddies and, when he was still in college, co-founded Voleurz, a badass, grassroots Canadian clothing company that also made films and generally helped push mountain cultur...
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Season 4
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Episode 56
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1:07:17
E55 — Frank Wolf Returns
Happy Holidays! We’re re-gifting this episode. Well, not really. It’s a brand new episode but, for the first time ever, we are having a guest back on the pod for round two. Frank Wolf is on the show today. It’s the Re-Wolf. Writing his ow...
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Season 4
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Episode 55
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1:06:30
E54 — Alenka Mali
Alenka Mali is a big mountain snowboarder, climber, BASE jumper, jindleboarder and general mountain sport badass. Last winter, she produced a film called "The Beginning", which examines her unique mountain-based upbringing in Slovenia and Argen...
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Season 4
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Episode 54
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56:47
E53 — Charlie Adams
On September 8, 2022 everything went sideways for Charlie Adams. He had a little side hustle working as a tree surgeon. He was working on a tree in Tiny Township. It was the last tree of t...
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Season 4
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Episode 53
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50:40
E52 — Blake Jorgenson
Most anyone who’s paid attention to any ski or bike mags over the past two decades should know who Blake is. He has more than 300 covers to his credit, a photo of the year award from Powder Magazine and there’s a pretty good chance many of your...
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Season 4
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Episode 52
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1:18:30
E51 —Jay Bearhead
As one of the main characters in Red Bull's documentary The Engine Inside, Jay Bearhead has seen it all; residential schools, drug abuse, alcoholism, homelessness. But it's his rise from those lows that are inspirational. In part it wa...
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Episode 51
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1:05:55
E50 — Sandy Ward (Kelkeláokik)
For the 50th episode of Live it Up with Mountain Life, host Feet Banks connects with Sandy Ward (Kelkeláokik)—snowboarder, mountain biker, filmmaker, guide to be, and a trailblazer at helping indigenous youth enjoy and reconnect to t...
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Season 4
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Episode 50
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55:26
E49 — Grumpy Bob
The briefest history of Great Lakes surfing according to Grumpy Bob: The Wyldewood Surf Club was formed in 1965 out of Port Colbourne, Ontario and from its very beginnings was an international club with both Canadian and American members. Wylde...
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Season 4
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Episode 49
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55:02
E48 — Mike Rogge
Mountain Gazette owner, publisher, and editor Mike Rogge is on the front lines of preserving print media and promoting the value of an analog experience. The Gazette is currently tallest poppy in what seems to be a fairly heal...
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Season 4
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Episode 48
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1:33:32
E47 — Chris Larkin
Imagine losing everything in the wilds of the Northwest Territories. That's what happened to Chris Larkin. After living for two winters alone in a cabin in the wilderness, his canoe capsized on the infamous Mountain River. Larkin lost everythin...
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Season 3
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Episode 47
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22:50
E46 — Jazmine Lowther
They call Jazmine Lowther "the Gazelle." Not because she grazes on grasslands and can grow antlers out of her head, but because she's very fast and nimble. An all-round mountain athlete and member of The North Face team, Jazmine has recently be...
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Season 3
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Episode 46
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1:06:28
E45 — Stan Rey
Feet Banks connects with Stan Rey, a master of the goggle tan and one of the most personable professional freeskiers in the game. Always ready to joke around in front of the camera and happy to share the stoke or his knowledge with anyone who n...
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Season 3
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Episode 45
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1:18:44
E44 — Greg Hill
Today's guest is legendary ski mountaineer Greg Hill. Back in 2010 he was all over ski media; he climbed and skied two million vertical feet, climbing 71 mountains in both North and South Amer...
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Season 3
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Episode 44
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48:40
E43 — Mercedes Nicoll
Mercedes Nicoll has competed in four winter Olympics for women’s halfpipe, and seven world championships. She’s been the Canadian National Champ five times, has eight world cup podiums and is a shining example of what it means to love competiti...
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Season 3
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Episode 43
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1:10:17
E41 — Geoff Gulevich
Today’s guest, Geoff "Gully" Gulevich, is an absolute legend of the freeride mountain bike world. This guy rode in Rampage years ago and continues to stretch out his pro riding career into something nearly every human on earth could envy: he ri...
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E40 — Katie Burrell
Katie Burrell is a comedian, writer, director, actress and creator of numerous online videos and skits such as Influencer, Dream Job, Still Solo, Toxic Mountain Bike Girlfriend and more. She's one of the most recognizable figures in th...
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Season 3
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Episode 30
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1:33:52
E39 — Mike Hopkins
Mike Hopkins grew up in Rossland, BC where he learned to ride bikes and ski like we all wish we could. He absolutely rips. He started his career as a professional skier, then moved over to pro mountain biking. Working on the influential film
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56:03
E38 — Michael Janyk
For much of his life, Michael Janyk was a professional alpine skier—a technical master banging gates on slalom and giant slalom courses around the world over a 14-year professional career that included three Olympic Games, one of them on his ho...
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Season 3
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Episode 38
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1:02:51
E37 — Adam Shoalts
Professional adventurer, explorer and national best-selling author Adam Shoalts is an absolute beast of outdoor adventure. Making first descents down untamed rivers in the western Hudson Bay lowlands, crossing the Arctic by canoe or traveling b...
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52:52
E36 — Todd Lawson
Feet Banks hosts a little bit of inside baseball on the show today because our guest is moto-adventurer, stand-up paddleboarder, author and inventor Todd Lawson, who also happens to be one of the co-publishers of Mountain Life. Todd has visited...
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Season 3
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Episode 36
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57:42
E35 — Hap Wilson
For today’s guest we have a guy who's spent a lifetime advocating for the environment. A legend in Canada’s paddling circles, Hap Wilson has created a life many of us would envy. Hap has been paddling Canadian rivers for decades. He...
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Season 3
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Episode 35
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