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Welcome to our new X account!
We provide great tools for lovers of the backcountry, our: Trip Planner, that dynamically helps you find and pack everything you need, Skill Builder, that tests your knowledge, and Leave Word that alerts a trusted contact of your itinerary.

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@Rainmaker1973 That's a nice way to get flooded out.

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@MadelnCanada Agreed.

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@jeffcanadamson Great shot, and Happy Thanksgiving from British Columbia!

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@LAKSuperiorFoto Fantastic captures.

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@manfreakbeast Looks like an amazing spot. Hope you had a great time!

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@mandolinaes Great shot!

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@JohnVaillant https://t.co/J5ICYAjzPz

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@Flapjack92 @ReddawgHorizon @Bobelly13 @scottys66 @SandtrapsR @Wineguy_69 Happy Thanksgiving! For other folks considering visiting the beautiful Bow Valley, we — just a couple of days ago — created a new park guide... hope it helps!
https://t.co/FaxsyO37au

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@carlprothman Great shot... Mount Rainier National Park is an amazing place. We recently created a park guide for it.
https://t.co/tOF9J6xOhj

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On July 4, 1999, a line of thunderstorms crossed Minnesota’s canoe country with winds of 80 to 100 mph (130 to 160 km/h). It flattened about 600 square miles (1,550 km²) of forest in minutes. Sixty paddlers were injured by falling trees, and twenty had to be flown out by float plane.

The storm had a name, a derecho, that almost nobody in those campsites had heard before that day.

Much of North America’s most dangerous weather is like that. It belongs to one region and one season, and the locals have a word for it: haboob, chinook, Santa Ana, nor’easter. Visitors may not be familiar with its name.

Our new guide takes ten of them in turn. For each: where and when it happens, what warning you get, what it does to someone on foot or in a boat, and what to do about it.
https://t.co/hSY94trumC

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Park of the week: Pacific Rim National Park Reserve. Long Beach, the West Coast Trail, and the Broken Group Islands on Vancouver Island's west coast. Winter here is storm-watching season.

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@Rainmaker1973 I don't think people realize how difficult this is. Not remotely for the unfit.

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@JeffKirdeikis Best of luck with your efforts, and congratulations.

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@phoenixkevin76 And we have *so much* in Canada... all around us for free.

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@ayojoestar This is the way.

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@MittCPA Exactly, we're very lucky to have it as our home base here in British Columbia.

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Compass lost, phone dead? You can still find north with a stick and the sun, an analog watch, or the stars, then turn a rough direction into a straight line toward safety.

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@parakeetnebula Possums play an important role in the ecosystem; glad this one was simply a good actor.

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@labry_de Amazing.