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OTTAWA, Nov. 21 — The Canadian government plans to announce today that it will convert 25.5 million acres of northern woodland into a new national park and wildlife protection areas.
The result will be one of North America’s largest conservation areas, about 11.5 times the size of Yellowstone Park, and ease pressure from the mining and […]

Note to self: In future, arrive 15min late for festivals to avoid the predictable, boring introductory speeches.
The opening act at the Banff 2007 Mountain Book Festival was quite entertaining, and refreshingly open-minded for an environmentalist. This is no Al Gore clone.

David de Rothschild
Adventure Ecology

Britain’s David de Rothschild has traversed Antarctica, has set a […]

I’ve been following The Journey on the Wild Coast blog since July. That’s the 9 month pack raft trip from Seattle to the Aleutian Islands in Alaska by human power — Erin McKittrick and Bretwood (Hig) Higman.
I think this is their best post yet:

… After four months in the Inside Passage, we had come […]

Surfing a wave created by a calving glacier on the Copper River in Cordova, Alaska.
I don’t need this explained.

Garrett McNamara on the ins and outs of riding freezing freshwater tsunamis, GLACIER SURFING - EXPLAINED | Surfline
video on THE GOAT - Backcountry.com
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We’re still searching — not too successfully — for “best hikes” in Alaska.
This one sounds great. Some consider it the best long hike in the Fairbanks area.
And Alfred Cook has posted an amazingly detailed mile-by-mile website dedicated to the Pinnell Mountain Trail.
A better overview is posted on AmericanTrails.org:
… (begin) at Eagle Summit, 107 […]

Owen (the fool with wit) is a big time Canadian hiker.
His favourite Canuck hike is little known Donjek Glacier in Kluane National Park.
On a 2005 adventure during high season, Owen was told there were only 10 people in Kluane’s 22000 square kilometers!
… No signage. No one around but bears, wolves and mountains.
… creek crossings […]

I already posted a trip report with my photos. And a trip video. A spaceman. And related posts.
Then trip leader Dave Hayley mails me a DVD with ALL the photos from our 7 hikers. (Here Dave was either eating Wasabi peas or shooting himself in the face with bear spray. Not sure.)
YEESH.
What could […]

Having visited the Nazca Lines in Peru, George Novak believes he’s spotted another extraterrestrial image.
In the Tombstone mountains, do you see the spaceman waving in alien spacecraft?

hike trip report - Tombstone Range, Yukon

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Previously I posted a trip report and photos from our awesome 5-day adventure out of Dawson, Yukon to Tombstone Mountain in August.
Here are the video highlights.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (5min)

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One of the classiest and best travel photo sites is BluePeak edited by Rogier Gruys.
He is one of the few who have travelled to remote Torngat.
Even better, Rogier created a superb landing page for the Park where the rest of us now have a chance to see that weird, fantastical landscape.

… The […]