Working with the folks at KMC was what I hoped it would be; trips to Nelson with post-meeting Whitewater visits, interviews with rad guys and gals in the biking industry, brushing up on my fly-fishing jargon and putting my energy into something pretty damn incredible. Not to mention I got to learn a lot from the people behind the paper.  Of course the glamorous job of college intern doesn’t come without some challenges and I did spend countless hours scouring the world wide whackhouse looking for photos of mountains most of us have never heard of, trying to locate every backcountry lodge North of the 49 and digging up details on whatever the crew threw at me. There was more than one occasion where I woke up at 4 am in a cold sweat with the Kootenay Rockies map staring me in the face but in the end, it was all worth it.

I picked up the summer 2008 issue of Kootenay Mountain Culture two weeks ago with great excitement. The shred was gleaming off the front cover as it tends to do and every page behind that is page full of great images, words, thoughts and experiences. I feel pretty lucky to have had this opportunity to be a small part of the brains that keep independent, freethinking, shredtastic media alive, thanks!