Category archives for Canada
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Ben Woods and five friends are embarking on a 70-day expedition to the Arctic Ocean through Canada’s Barren Lands. With the aim of connecting three major rivers—the Dubawnt, the Morse and the Armark—via a never-before-attempted upstream haul into the Morse, the team will travel more than 900 miles from Black Lake, Saskatchewan, to the Queen…
Behind the Shot: Skier Carter McMillan Pulls Off a Perfect Backflip in Revelstoke, BC
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on May 29, 2013 
See more photos like this in our Extreme Photo of the Week gallery >> Adventure: What were you thinking at this moment? Carter McMillan: At that particular moment I was focused on setting the rotation for my backflip correctly, while craning my neck to catch a quick glimpse of the landing coming up below me.…
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See previous dispatches from the Powder Highway Road Trip >> A remote lodge trip may be the signature experience of the Powder Highway. Enough of my friends have returned home, minds blown, from a weeklong trip to interior B.C. Few regions in the world are blessed with so much cold, dry snow; and when you’re…
“Silence” Film: How Ultrarunner Adam Campbell Made Room for Silence
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on March 20, 2013 If you’re reading this blog, this new film will resonate. In Silence, the filmmakers at Duct Tape Then Beer explore why it’s important to escape the chains of urban life to find your own peace in the outdoors, whatever that means to you. And they paint an exceptionally beautiful image of life beyond the boundaries…
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Most powder junkies know there are a few regions around the globe that seem to get more than their fair share of cold smoke. For North American shredders, one of those legendary deep-snow destinations is the Powder Highway, a 680-mile stretch of road that winds through the southeast corner of British Columbia, Canada. Kicking Horse…
Posted by “You shouldn’t have to convince people to go to paradise, but if I could go to paradise without dying and see all that is there, sign me up.” –Shelton Johnson, Yosemite park ranger, in The Way Home Sign me up, too! It sounds like an adventure. Paradise waits for us when we explore the unknown,…
Posted by The Powder Highway provides over 50 different mountain operators (including eight alpine resorts, nine heli-ski tenures, 16 snowcat zones, and 21 back country outfitters) making it difficult to choose from the menu. As a professional photographer, I try and let the conditions dictate, but I’ve always been curious to discover why so many film crews…
Posted by See Dispatch #1: Sun Valley, Idaho The snowy roads twist and wind as we travel through the southeastern corner of British Columbia in our Outside Van, a mini motor home equipped with all the amenities to chase powder for months. Our next stop is Nakusp, a small mining and logging community (pop. 1,569) located on…
Valhalla Film Preview: Ski Filmmaker Nick Waggoner on Finding Freedom
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on December 12, 2012 
Sweetgrass Productions director Nick Waggoner was named one of our 2012 Adventurers of the Year for Solitaire, a film that artfully depicts a two-year, human-powered ski odyssey around South America. Since getting to know the Sweetgrass team—which also includes Ben Sturgulewski, Michael Brown, and Zak Ramras—we are confident these guys will continue to capture and redefine…
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I have to confess that I’ve been smitten with this place for nearly 12 years. It was love at first sight for me back in January of 2001, and it’s only grown more serious during the 14 trips since. British Columbia’s Retallack Lodge is known for as having perhaps the best steep tree and deep…
Behind the Shot: Photographer Jordan Manley’s Tyrolean Traverse Kayaking Shoot
Posted by Sarah Polger on September 14, 2012 
See more photos like these in our Extreme Photo of the Week gallery From remote skiing to extreme climbing, photographer Jordan Manley is always up for a challenge. To shoot kayaker John Irvine paddling Seymour Canyon in British Columbia, Canada, Manley knew he wanted to photograph the action from above the river. It took two…
Kayaker Ben Marr Paddles With Fire – Must-Watch Video
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on June 25, 2012 
OF SOULS + WATER: THE SHAPESHIFTER from NRS Films on Vimeo. Meet legendary whitewater kayaker Ben Marr as he paddles the upper reaches of Quebec, pushing to new levels. And just wait until you seem him do it river surfing with a flare in the dark. Filmed in exquisite high definition by FORGE Motion Pictures, Of…
Ultimate Adventure Bucket List: Top Athletes’ Dream Trips
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on May 3, 2012 
Earlier this year, we asked 20 of the world’s best athletes and explorers to advise us on the top adventure trips within their sports for our Ultimate Adventure Bucket List. Each gave us two recommendations—one “dream trip” they hoped to do someday and one “must-do trip,” a true classic, that the rest of us should…
Editor’s Note: Today we are launching a new blog column with Outdoor Industry Association. Avery Stonich will be weighing in on industry trends, places to play outside and the federal policies that affect them, with a few tales from OIA staffers’ adventures thrown in for good measure. As I ponder this assignment—a new outdoor adventure…
Skiing: The Great Canadian Road Trip of 2012 – Part #3 – Fernie, B.C.
Posted by Aaron Teasdale on April 24, 2012 
In our ongoing effort to jam as much skiing as humanly possible into our Canadian skiing odyssey, we jumped in the car and started driving as soon as we finished skiing at Sunshine Village. Across the Continental Divide and south for four hours, we streaked to the skiing hamlet of Fernie, British Columbia, for our…
Skiing: The Great Canadian Ski Road Trip of 2012 #2 — Banff’s Lake Louise, Sunshine Village
Posted by Aaron Teasdale on April 17, 2012 
The Japanese women appeared suddenly, smiling with their cameras and saying “excooz me” while I buckled my ski boots at the base of the Lake Louise ski area. Assuming they wanted me to take their picture, I smiled and said, “Sure,” only to have a woman lean into me with a huge smile and grab…
Skiing: The Great Canadian Ski Road Trip of 2012 – Revelstoke and Kicking Horse, B.C.
Posted by Aaron Teasdale on April 5, 2012 
Writer Aaron Teasdale also wrote our World’s Best Ski Towns 2012 story. When winter fails to deliver the goods in the American Rockies, there’s always one thing powder-starved skiers can do: head north. From the reliably thick snowpack of interior British Columbia to the pristine slopes just over the Continental Divide in Alberta, the mountain…
Jussi Oksanen Snowboarding on an Otherworldly Glacier in New Zealand – Incredible Photo
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on March 28, 2012 
“Jussi is a pure freestyler, a fantastic jumper, and a really good and stylish jibber,” says photographer Jeff Curtes of shooting with Burton rider Jussi Oksanen at Ice Station Zebra glacier in Methven, New Zealand. A low-precipitation snow season created stunning glacial terrain in Methven. “The snow bridges were minimal, so we moved confidently with…
Top Snowboarders Face Off in Travis Rice’s Supernatural at Baldface, B.C. (Video)
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on February 3, 2012 Starting today, 18 of the world’s top snowboarders will face off in the inaugural Red Bull Supernatural Contest, a competition unlike any before. Snowboarder Travis Rice, one of our 2012 Adventurers of the Year, has created his dream playground designed to determine the best snowboarder on the planet. Located in the backcountry of Canada’s Baldface…
Skiing Video: Trust in the Guardian – Salomon Freeski TV – “Selkirks Touring”
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on January 18, 2012 By Kim Havell When you are skiing powder in Canada’s Selkirk mountain range, Research and Development is a very good job. Companies often want to see how their prototype product works in the field, so somebody’s got to do it. In the sports realm, team athletes are often called upon to use and critique their…
Best Adventure Destinations for 2012
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on December 16, 2011 Our list is out: Each of these ten best adventure destinations for 2012 has new access, be it new parks, trails, hotels, crazy weather patterns, or cosmic events. Combined, it's enough to make a well-traveled world feel full of new frontiers again. And the best adventure destinations are… Skiing + Snowboarding Mammoth Mountain, CaliforniaRafting the…
Video: Watch the Amazing JP Auclair Street Skiing Scene From All.I.Can.
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on November 29, 2011 JP Auclair Street Segment (from All.I.Can.) from Sherpas Cinema on Vimeo. This scene from the award-winning Sherpas Cinema ski film All.I.Can. may have been our favorite at the Banff Mountain Film Festival. Set to LCD Soundsystem's "Dance Yourself Clean," it features freeskier JP Auclair jibbing his way through three towns in British Columbia, Canada. "We…
Born to Explore: Richard Wiese on Cultural Exploration and His Hardest Expedition Yet–Fatherhood
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on September 8, 2011 Photograph courtesy Born to Explore/ABC Some people seem to have exploration hard coded into their DNA. This is true for Richard Wiese, whose globetrotting parents took him to some of the world's most far flung places starting at an early age—including climbing Kilimanjaro at age 11. We spoke to Wiese, former president of the Explorers…
Kayaking British Columbia: Paddling Where the Sky and Sea Are One
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on September 2, 2010 By Tara Davis, reporting from a National Geographic Young Explorers-funded expedition to sea kayak and explore the unique cultural heritage of British Columbia's Haida Gwaii archipelago. Photographs by Lauren Sinnott and Julia DeWitt. At dawn, paddling the east coast of Moresby island, Haida Gwaii. The sun rises in the west as the night’s silhouette slips…
Alaska-Yukon Expedition: 5 Tips For Hiking With Vicious Swarms of Mosquitos
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on July 19, 2010 Follow adventurer Andrew Skurka as he skis, hikes, and rafts 4,720 miles through eight national parks, two major mountain ranges, and some of North America's wildest rivers in Alaska and the Yukon from March to October. Read his blog updates here.The section between Dawson City, YT, and Fort McPherson, NT, will be memorable for several…
