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The first residents of Revelstoke referred to Mount Mackenzie as “Twin Buttes” because from town it appears to have two equally high summits. This is a trick of perspective. What appears as a northerly summit is just a shoulder to the main peak, which is about 100 meters higher. This was first determined by railway surveyors Otto Klotz and J.J. MacArthur who climbed it in 1886.

On average, Canadians dump seven kilograms of textile waste per person into landfills each year. While textile waste accounts for only five percent of landfill waste, the majority of this is clothing, and 80 per cent of it still wearable. To give an idea of the volumes we are looking at, one researcher explained that if we gathered all the textiles thrown into Canadian landfills over one year, they could be piled into a solid structure as large as the Toronto’s Rogers Centre stadium.

The crowd was in an ugly mood. They had come to see the best ski jumpers in the country compete for supremacy at the famed Mount Revelstoke ski jump in Revelstoke at the 1931 Dominion championships. The fans had travelled for hours, some for days, on specially chartered trains, ferries and on winter roads to make it here to witness the spectacle on the jump now known as the Nels Nelsen ski jump, but they were to be disappointed...