Planning for Uncertainty: The Ups and Downs of the 2023 Field Season
By Claire Wright Plagued by heat, smoke, rain and strong winds, the 2023 MLP field season almost didn’t happen. It was late August when the monotony of waiting for improved conditions finally broke and a whirlwind of activity led to a surprisingly productive spell of...
Celebrating International Mountain Day 2023: Restoring Mountain Ecosystems
Eric Higgs, December 11th, 2023 At the Mountain Legacy Project we are raising an even louder cheer this year to mark the 2023 theme of International Mountain Day: restoring mountain ecosystems. The MLP traces its origin to ecosystem restoration, which continues...
Navigating Change: Mountain Guides and the Shifting Landscape of the Canadian Rockies
By Katherine Hanly, James Tricker, Graham McDowell, Nov 29th 2023 Introduction In Canada, the largest and oldest mountain guiding operations originated in the Rockies. The region remains a guiding hot spot due to its unmatched breadth of spectacular terrain, scenic...
Hot Off The Presses!
By Sarah Jacobs, November 4th 2023 We are pleased to announce the release of the Canadian Mountain Assessment (CMA). Bringing together insights from First Nations, Métis and Inuit knowledge keepers, as well as findings from an extensive review of pertinent academic...
Welcome to New Blog
The Mountain Legacy Project began its blog adventures in 2010 as a way to document and share our work. The old blog site—and indeed the structure of mountainlegacy.ca—moved to a University of Victoria-hosted WordPress platform earlier this year. This shifted how the...
Epic Heli Ride Over The Victoria Cross Range
In the summer of 2022, James Tricker, Catalina Madrid, and myself, went out into the field in Jasper National Park for a month-long period to complete 26 stations in Jasper’s three main valleys (Tricker’s study location). Our arrival in Jasper was prefigured by months...
Putting the Clues Together: Figuring out Camera Locations
By James Tricker The repeat photography undertaken at the Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) requires thorough preparation before the season starts, and long days in the field hiking to remote peaks and promontories, as Claire and Daniel recount in their climb up Mt...
“Mountain Legacies”: The Podcast
Mt Robson and the Robson Glacier, A.O. Wheeler, 1911 Here at MLP, we’re always excited to talk about mountains. We were recently lucky enough to work with Mendel Skulski and Adam Huggins at Futures Ecologies, who turned our learnings in and about mountains into a new...
A Day in the Field: Going up Mt Alderson
The Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) now boasts over 10,000 repeat photographs collected over close to three decades. Our repeat photography involves intense fieldwork across Canada’s mountain landscapes. In the following series of blog posts, we turn our focus "behind...
PART 2: Spatial analysis of repeated oblique images to study change in mountain landscapes
By Claire Wright | April 11, 2022 In the previous blog, Origins of Repeat Photography as Tool for Monitoring Landscape Change, I argued that repeat photography is an effective and flexible technique for examining change in mountain landscapes. With historic...