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Adventure, Alberta, environment

Gadd’s Truth: Interesting Times?

It might be nice if the times were a little less interesting.

Three hikers with backpacks stand on a wooden viewing deck, overlooking pine forests, a lake, and snow-capped mountains.

Adventure, environment, What's New Wednesdays

What Is the Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Outdoors?

But is the information these tools provide any good?

Aerial view of a deforested area with numerous fallen trees, scattered trailers, and a nearby lake at right edge.

Adventure, environment, Ontario, The Happy Camper

The Happy Camper: A New Chapter for Samuel de Champlain Provincial Park

Is Ontario’s Samuel de Champlain Provincial Park cursed?

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Adventure, environment, News

Everything You Need to Know About the Patagonia vs. Pattie Gonia Lawsuit—and What’s Being Overlooked

Is the Patagonia vs. Pattie Gonia conflict really about ownership and identity?

Winding two-lane road curves along a forested hillside at sunset with pink-orange sky and distant lake.

Adventure, British Columbia, environment

The New Outdoor Sector Coalition: Why BC’s Outdoors Needed a Stronger Voice

Recognizing these challenges, more than 2,000 organizations from across the province have come together under a newly formed Outdoor Sector Coalition.

Paraglider soaring above a sea of clouds over a mountain ridge at sunrise.

Adventure, Editors' Picks, environment

Gadd’s Truth: Classroom Earth

We are but students in the largest classroom of all.

SCUBA diver in a wetsuit gliding underwater among seagrass, sunlight filtering from above and bubbles rising to the surface.

Adventure, British Columbia, environment, Indigenous

Discovering How to Travel with Purpose in Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks

Travel today cannot be reduced to ticking off new destinations on our list; it’s a call to align our adventures with ambition for a better planet.

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Adventure, environment, Ontario, The Happy Camper

The Happy Camper: What Happens in the BWCA Doesn’t Stay There—Quetico Pays the Price

The leader of our lovely neighbour to the south, upstream, just signed the rights to pollute Canada’s iconic wilderness provincial park.

A firefighting helicopter flies over a smoky forest, releasing water to battle a wildfire below.

Adventure, environment, Nova Scotia, What's New Wednesdays

Nova Scotia Lifts Hiking Ban as Wildfire Season Returns

With warmer-than-average temperature forecasts for the summer, that could mean another summer of dangerous fire conditions.

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Adventure, Editors' Picks, environment

6 Surprisingly Easy Ways to Care for the Planet (That Benefit You, Too)

Make small changes that lighten your carbon footprint and make your life a little easier.

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Adventure, environment, Summer, What's New Wednesdays

Planning for Wildfire Season Is Now Essential Across Canada

Smolders explained that it starts with trip planning and research, looking at both weather and conditions, as well as changes to the landscape.

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Adventure, environment, Spring, The Happy Camper

The Happy Camper: You’re More Likely to Get the Itch from Poison Ivy Now, Before the Spring Leaves Emerge

The scariest part of poison ivy oil is that it can linger on your clothing and boots for years.

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Adventure, Editors' Picks, environment, Wildlife

Why Canadians Don’t Brag About Their Beautiful Wilderness

Canada has some of the most dramatic landscapes on Earth, yet I’ve found that Canadians rarely talk about them like they’re extraordinary.

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Editors' Picks, environment, Travel

10 Sunken Treasures in Canada: What Lies Beneath the Waves

Underwater treasures take many forms in Canadian waters.

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Adventure, environment, Wildlife, Winter

Nature’s Hidden World in Winter

If you know where to look, you’ll begin to see winter is an active, vibrant and quietly complex season.

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Adventure, environment, The Happy Camper

The Happy Camper: My First Year Being a Full-Time Canadian Outdoor Writer

Never stop believing in your dreams… just say’n.

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Adventure, environment, Winter

Chasing 10 of the Best Frozen Waterfalls Across Canada

In winter, they offer an especially mesmerizing interplay between raw power and tranquility.

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Adventure, environment, Partner Content

In the Graveyard of the Pacific: Surfrider’s Beach Clean Under the Lighthouse

As we clean the beach, I meditate on this critical point: beach cleanups are not a means to an end.

When the ramp at the head of the dock in Princess Louisa came off its footings

Adventure, British Columbia, environment

The Price of Paradise: How Volunteers Are Keeping BC’s Parks Alive

The system has expanded exponentially, but funding hasn’t kept pace.

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Adventure, environment, New Brunswick, The Happy Camper

The Happy Camper: The Maitland Tower is Where History Meets Nature for a Better Future

Yes, the tower is cool; an historical centrepiece that witnessed entrepreneurship, war, rebellions, tariffs and bootlegging.

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