What's New — outdoors

As Halloween draws closer I've been reminiscing about Halloweens past while I look forward to seeing my niece and nephew head out to go trick-or-treating. Here in Vancouver, it seems to rain pretty much every year. It's perfect, really. The wind lashing the trees, leaves blowing here and there. It's dark early enough that the house lights glow invitingly. Lots of people go all out decorating with pumpkins, skeletons, and gravestones and the streets are busy with cute little monsters and fairy princesses. "Trick or treat! Trick or treat!"  Growing up in Edmonton and then Calgary it was either pretty chilly out or...

Africa has the great Wildebeest migrations. The far North has the Caribou herds that make the ground tremble beneath their hooves. Here in BC we have salmon runs, one of which we were priveleged to witness this past weekend, at Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park on the Adams River. Every year sockeye salmon return, sometimes in the millions, to spawn and die in the rivers and creeks they left years before. As they travel upriver, they undergo a remarkable transformation: they stop eating and their scales are reabsorbed into their bodies, they turn bright red except for their tails and head that...

Love your sandals? Can't bear to stop wearing them? Frost-bitten toes?  Well, no more! Say good-bye to cold toes and overshoes--because now you can pair up your favorite flipflop or hiking sandals with a pair of Polar Feet Tabi socks! We've been out testing them in the field and have seen some pretty amazing combinations in all kinds of weather--even snow.  Check out our Facebook page for some great photos--and send us your sock and sandal combos!