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
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 ...
User pay
- Posted on April 29, 2008 at 4:26 PM
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As promised this blog entry I'm going to talk about the growing controversy surrounding search and rescue. For several years Mount Washington Alpine Resort has invoiced for ski patrol time spent searching for skiers and boarders who went out of bounds and got lost, stuck or hurt. Other ski hills ...
Deadly Water
- Posted on April 23, 2008 at 2:00 PM
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Last fall two men died of hypothermia after their kayaks tipped in Howe Sound south of Squamish. David Leach does an amazing job of revisiting how the accident happened and the attempts to save the men and their companions in his cover story for explore's May issue. I always find ...
