Hiking, Camping, Paddling, Cycling, Adventure — Canada's best source for Inspiring Outdoor Experiences.
Hiking, Camping, Paddling, Cycling, Adventure — Canada's best source for Inspiring Outdoor Experiences.
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Andrew Findlay is a BC-based freelance journalist whose assignments over the past year have taken him to Ecuador, Palm Springs, Japan, Shames Mountain and elsewhere.
Adventure, Partner Content, Travel
Nevada is an eco-geological playground ripe for adventure. This adventure is all about the mountain biking. Go on, get a little out there…
Hiking Trail Reviews, Skills, Trails, Travel
Skiing is an oft-precarious business. Weather dependent like few other sports, backcountry skiing once seemed like the ficklest niche in this already fickle pursuit, given the attendant threats of snowpack and weather instability, and the need to be proficiently fit and adept at navigation if you had any hope of…
Are you bad at your chosen sport? That could be a good thing�we’ll explain.
Fitness, Fitness & Nutrition, Health and Wellness, Hiking
It�s been a long road toward British Columbia�s proposed South Okanagan-Similkameen National Park Reserve�but it looks like this new park is finally on the horizon.
Fitness, Fitness & Nutrition, Health and Wellness, Hiking
Instagram culture is pervasive in the outdoors. Let’s talk about it.
We all need the Internet. But saving some Internet-free zones may just save our sanities.
Andrew Findlay went to Antarctica. It was not only an adventure, but a lesson in international cooperation with the potential for powerful consequences.
What does our environmental and recreational future hold, when the abnormal becomes the norm?
A BC organization is looking into the future of climate change with an eye on what we can do today.
British Columbia�s embattled mountain caribou may prove to be a litmus test of our commitment to save a species.
The �Matterhorn of the Canadian Rockies� has captivated climbers for more than a century.
What connects outdoor sports and beer? Andrew Findlay finds out.
Hiking Trail Reviews, Trails, Travel
Canada�s newest mountain bike scene, in Carcross, Yukon, is having positive ripple effects throughout the local community
From one side of the Atlantic to the other, Andrew Findlay searches for the soul of mountain biking.
Andrew Findlay asks � is exposure to risk beneficial to our personal development?
A chance encounter with famed climber Charlie Porter opens up a world of mountaineering legends.
Andrew Findlay examines our treatment of wildlife, and the issue of bear hunting versus bear viewing.
Canada’s Outdoors: Examining the uneasy peace between land-tenure holders and backcountry users.
Andrew Findlay heads to British Columbia’s remote Great Bear Rainforest and discovers how a landscape can be transformative.
With a particularly deadly season behind us, Andrew Findlay explores the current state of avalanche instruction and examines how we can stay safe, and balance risk and reward, in the backcountry.
WINTER 2024
It’s snow season! And we have the best of winter in our latest issue. From the Freeride World Tour; to a 25-plus item Winter Gift Guide; to looking at sober living in mountain towns; exploring Baffin Island by ski; the future of MEC; traditional snowshoes; winter camping tips… All this and so much more!