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Resorts360: What's New on the British Columbia Slopes

Photo: Paul Morrison It’s that time of year again. November just can’t roll fast enough. Cold weather is setting in and the occasional flurry can be spotted out your office window. Butterflies fill the stomach and the anticipation of winter is palpable. Talk about cooped up. While we can’t help you make tracks just yet, Uncooped has spent much time researching new improvements at resorts across North America so that you can bomb that new...
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For Great Lakes region Uncoopers: Feds hiding Great Lakes health concerns

Via the always-fascinating, often-disturbing, updated-daily Environmental Health News network comes this story from the Duluth News-Tribune:Groups says feds are hiding data on Great Lakes health concernsA nonprofit public interest group says a report that charts human health problems near Great Lakes toxic sites has been hidden by the U.S. government for seven months because the findings might be too controversial.Keep reading... Thanks, federal government.   
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How to satisfy your longing for a place when you can't go there

I just moved to sunny, beautiful northern California. Yet sometimes I find myself missing the north country, the lake-freckled woods in northern Minnesota and Ontario where the map is practically more blue than green. I long to visit the Boundary Waters. I yearn to paddle for weeks in the Wabakimi Wilderness. I miss the warmth, smell, and glow of a campfire on a chilly August night while the Northern Lights twist electric in the sky. Above: paddling at...
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When Mother Nature has PMS -or- "Holy $#!& look at that cloud!"

This summer, my boyfriend's uncle and his significant other went camping in Arkansas. During the night, there was a storm of Biblical proportions. Rain blowing sideways. Hail. The doomsday roar of nearby tornadoes."I've been in tornadoes before," he told me. (My eyes were like saucers.) "I know what they sound like. Found out the next day there were seven or eight of them around us." Luckily, he and his SO escaped unhurt.I've been caught in nasty...
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I heart Canada

for a lot of reasons, one of them being the moose "NIGHT DANGER" signs.
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Formative Experiences

If I had to point to one experience that made me feel like a real outdoorsperson, it was a trip I took when I was eighteen through a YMCA camp. Four teenage girls, one guide, two canoes, and 31 days paddling whitewater deep in the Canadian wilderness. I'm the one in the bow with the shaved head. What's your formative outdoor experience?
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