Ryan Stuart, explore's gear editor
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November 2008 archive
Avalanche air bag backpacks
- Posted on November 27, 2008 at 3:02 PM
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In the winter issue of Explore I wrote a short article about the availability of two types of avalanche airbag packs, ABS Avalanche Air bags and Snowpulse. Both are packs with a compressed air cylinder that can be triggered to deploy one or two air bags in an event of ...
Bush beard and Movember
- Posted on November 26, 2008 at 2:25 PM
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Growing facial hair is part of camping. Be it one night or 20 stubble will appear and the man will be proud of it. If a women asks him to shave it, he will resist. He'll say its difficult to shave without a decent sized mirror. It's true, but it's ...
Hi-ho, hi-ho it's off to the South Pole Ray goes
A week to go before Ray Zahab, Kevin Vallely and Richard Webber fly to Antartica for their South Pole expedition. The two endurance athletes plan on setting a new record for fastest human powered trip. If the weather cooperates they leave on November 27th. Read more about the expedition in ...
What's the rush?
Ray Zahab and Richard Webber are in Chile right now preparing for their unsupported South Pole expedition. The two endurance athletes plan on setting a new record for the 10,000 foot vertical, 1000 kilometre long trek. If the weather cooperates they leave on November 27th. You can read more about ...
Ray Zahab runs to the South Pole
- Posted on November 13, 2008 at 2:12 PM
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Ray Zahab is one crazy, cool guy. He works really hard to make his passion, running, help less fortunate people and support charities. He's crazy because he does some insane things - like run to the South Pole. That's what he's up to right now. He and fellow endurance athlete ...
Bionic Man will take weight off your shoulders
Check out this cool invention, named one of the top 50 inventions of 2008 by Time Magazine. In a few years it may lighten your pack Max Donelan, a kinesiologist at Simon Fraser University, has invented a device that harvests energy from one action we do all the time - ...
BC Trail Strategy
There are more than 30,000 kilometres of trails in British Columbia, but nobody knows how much more. Nor is there a plan in place for developing more trails, upgrading and maintaining existing trails or governing who can use them. Most of this planning is done ad hoc - whenever it's ...
Sweet 16 suspended in history
- Posted on November 7, 2008 at 6:48 PM
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Norco Bike's rear suspension program is turning sweet 16. Isn't that special? That's right, it was 1993 that the first Norco full suspension bike went on sale at retail. I can't say I remember the moment. I bought my first mountain bike, a Raleigh Portage, in 1988. But I didn't ...
Ski bum U
I just discovered a cool website for scoring ski hill discounts, but it comes with a caveat: you have to be a university or college student. MountainU.com is a portal devised by two Victoria area ski bums to tap into student discounts offered by ski resorts throughout the west. These ...
RECCO to save the day
Riding shot gun on the shoulder of many ski jackets, at the hip of many ski pants and even embedded in ski helmets are RECCO locator beacons. For most of us they're a seemingly useless accessory and until recently they were, at least on this side of the Atlantic. But ...
Big gear sale
- Posted on November 3, 2008 at 2:42 PM
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For anyone near or in Vancouver there's a huge sample sale this week you won't want to miss. This is gear from a sales agency: they import gear into BC and then distribute it to retail stores. So prices are what they pay or less, wholesale and below. Brands include ...
Canadian tackles South Georgia
This sounds like a crazy expedition for a good cause. I hope our West Coast's nasty weather is good training. In January 2009 Hayley Shephard, a kiwi now residing on the West Coast of Canada, will attempting the very first solo sea kayak circumnavigation of South Georgia Island in efforts ...