Ryan Stuart, explore's gear editor

Ryan Stuart's tell all blog spot on his gear addiction and life and times as explore magazine's gear editor

Strathcona Centennial Expedition begins BC Parks 100th anniversarymap_icon

On Sunday July 25 I'll begin a long hike up an old logging road retracing history. 100 years before, in 1910 the equivalent of the minister of the environment for the province of BC hiked up the same hill during an expedition to map BC's first provincial park, Strathcona. The ...

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Best climbing trip ever - Joffre Lakes areamap_icon

It may have been the most relaxing and best climbing trip I've ever been on. Last week two friends and I spent four days in the high country above Joffre Lakes in the provincial park of the same name, tagging four summits on a mix of snow, ice, technical rock ...

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Multi-sport adventuring in the Joffre Lake areamap_icon

Today I went road riding. Yesterday a long trail run. Last weekend I squeezed in what will probably be my last whitewater paddle and this weekend I'm off to the mountains for some mountaineering. I love summer. My climbing partners and I have been planning this climbing trip since last ...

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Plastic that gives wood: a guest review of the Jackson All Star whitewater kayak

This is a review by my paddling buddy Zak Cross of the Jackson All Star. I tested it as well and as I was preparing to write a review I asked Zak for his thoughts and they were like poetry. I couldn't have said it better, so I copied his ...

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Chlorophylle Maya Capri review

We gave these capris to a bike courier and told her to use them. She did - a lot. After a month of riding in them all the time she couldn't stop saying nice things about them. They made her butt look good. They're comfortable all day long. They bead ...

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