Ryan Stuart, explore's gear editor
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May 2008 archive
Putledge Paddle Festival
- Posted on May 30, 2008 at 3:47 PM
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This weekend is the annual Puntledge Paddle Festival, surfkayak.org. For the last three years BC Hydro has planned a release of water on the Puntledge River specifically for paddlers. More than 100 boaters show up to play and paddle some of the best whitewater on Vancouver Island and party with ...
Horse sh#%
On Wednesday night I went out to a public meeting about amending the master plan for Strathcona Provincial Park to allow horse travel. The question asked was under what conditions should horses be allowed in the park. Personally, I think there are a lot more important issues we should be ...
Once in a lifetime
Opportunity knocked on the long weekend and we had to answer. This spring's run off was unusually late. The rivers flowing into the Campbell River watershed were very low, but that didn't stop BC Hydro from maintaining their minimum flow regime for the Campbell River. The idea is to make ...
Hot spring lines
- Posted on May 22, 2008 at 5:22 PM
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Planning a spring ski tour anywhere near a long weekend in B.C. is asking for a nasty turn in the weather. But we decided to test the weather gods, mostly because we didn’t realize it was a long weekend until we’d already set the dates for a tour up mounts ...
Bagging the eye candy
- Posted on May 15, 2008 at 5:48 PM
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Do you have a mountain, lake or river that has been staring you in the face for so long? You're just dying to check them out. If everything goes according to plan, I will knock two of these pieces of adventure eye candy off on Friday and Saturday. I'm off ...
Push R for Rescue
The Yukon 1000 sounds insane. Take the Yukon River Quest canoe race and triple it. Racers will paddle in teams or solo from Whitehorse to the Alaska Pipeline on the Yukon River. This year's race will be a first annual running. And it will be a first of another sort. ...
Pitching in
The Puntledge River runs right past my house on its way through Courtenay and into the Comox Harbour. As a dam controlled river with strict salmon spawning requirements, for most of the year it's a class 2 trickle worthy of little more than a tube. But during spring run off, ...
Help yourself
Part of my job as explore’s gear editor is to come up with interesting ideas for Into Gear, our themed gear column, and cool things to feature in Latest Stuff. Sometimes it’s easy, but not always. I try to balance what I think is interesting, new and changing, with what ...
May 1st Powder
May 1st powder. That’s what we found when two friends, my dog Silva and I headed up to Mount Cain last week for a day of skiing. We were expecting spring conditions but arrived to find snow on the trees and chilly temps – it started snowing shortly after we ...