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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

May 2008 archive

Pitching inmap_icon

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, ...

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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 ...

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May 1st Powdermap_icon

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 ...

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