Skills
Adventure, Partner Content, Skills
How to Adventure With Your Dog
Here’s how to start planning safe and successful adventures with your pup.
Partner Content, Skills, Wildlife
Why Bats Aren’t Bad—They Are Vital
Bats’ futures matters because they play a silent, underappreciated, key role in our environment.
Manitoba, Partner Content, Skills
Frozen Field of Dreams: A Crash Course in ODR Hockey
Winnipeg is a winter wonderland, to put it mildly. The city’s frigid climate and 113 centimetres of average annual snowfall …
5 Places to Enjoy Winter in Canada Without Skis
There is more to winter in Canada than the slopes and hills. From tobogganing to dog sledding, explore epic winter activities that you need to add to your winter bucket list.
10 Tips for a Comfortable and Snug Winter Campsite
Thinking about going camping this winter? Winter camping is cold and wet if you don’t know how to do it right. Read this article for 10 tips on having a cozy, safe trip.
Reconciliation Through Recreation: Forging a Deeper Connection to the Land With Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Read about how explore contributor Jennifer Malloy discovers the connection between recreation and reconciliation on a hike with Buffalo Stone Woman.
Trains to Trails: Hiking in Utah
Writer Jonny Bierman finds beauty in nature along the train tracks and hiking trails in the USA.
Learning About World Rivers Day While Paddling
What if there were no more rivers? No place to paddle, fish, nothing to transport goods along, no rivers to drink from? It’s a pretty unappealing thought.
Why Sailing Should Be Your Next Outdoor Adventure
Have you ever dreamed of gliding effortlessly across open water? Spotting seabirds, marine life and being one with the waves? Then you need to check out Steve and Doris Colgate’s Offshore Sailing School.
Hiking Trail Reviews, Skills, Trails, Travel, Wildlife
What to Do When You See a Bear: Tips for Surviving Encounters
As great as it is to be outdoors, it’s imperative to have a healthy respect for the dangers that lurk in Canada’s wilderness. We share this land with black bears, polar bears and grizzly bears. The following tips will help us all enjoy the trails in peace.
How Your Gear Can Help You Get Rescued in the Outdoors
These small and lightweight passive transponders increase any adventurer’s chances of survival by directing rescue professionals to the wearer’s location in case of an emergency, whether on the mountain, atop a glacier or deep in the valley.
How to Repair Your Outdoor Adventure Gear
Knowing how to do simple repairs to extend the use of expensive gear is an essential, yet easily overlooked skill for outdoor explorers. Let’s keep our favourite pieces out of the landfill for as long as possible.
Tips for the Perfect Paddling Trip
From seemingly (but not at all) minor oversights like leaving the toilet paper behind, to more serious errors like trying to outrun a thunderstorm, here are three of my biggest mistakes, and what I should have done differently.
10 Cool Uses for Your Nalgene Bottle on the Trail or in the Tent
Your favourite water bottle can be used for more than just hydration.
How to Paddle the Yukon River
This northern canoe trip has something for everyone.
Adventure, Alberta, News, Nunavut Trails, Skills
8 Homemade Firestarters
From dryer lint to fluffy cotton balls, it’s easy to make your own firestarters.
Profile: Jenn Drummond, the First Woman to Climb the Seven Second Summmits
Jenn Drummond has many different titles—business owner, author, inspirational speaker, mountaineer and mom of seven. As of June 8, 2023, she is also the first woman to complete the Seven Second Summits.
How to Pick Your Perfect Rain Jacket
Don’t fight it. Embrace the rain. After all, rain gives us lush forests and rushing rivers. It turns to snow on mountain peaks and fills our lakes for water-based fun.
Health and Wellness, Hiking, Skills
The Best Ways to Relax and Recover After an Intense Hike
There are a few things you can do before, during and after a hike to keep your body as nimble as possible and avoid prolonging the suffering of sore muscles.
Hiking Trail Reviews, Skills, Trails, Travel, Wildlife
What to Do if You Encounter a Bear
As Erin McCloskey details in Bear Attacks in Canada, defending yourself against an attack depends on what species of bear is doing the attacking, but some basic principles can apply to encounters with all three North American species.
