A Runner’s Guide to Canadian Winters
How to gear up for fall and winter running with Mountain Equipment Company.
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The Future’s So Light: MEC’s 2Kilo Project
The new 2Kilo Project redefines lightweight/compact camping gear.
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ML TESTED: Black Diamond’s Momentum Climbing Shoe
A breathable all-arounder climbing shoe that punches above its (price) class.
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Tested: MEC Ionic HD Jacket
MEC's Ionic HD Jacket is your crossover season specialist, and it's Earth-Friendly to boot.
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Sharing Winter Stoke: MEC Season Opener Returns
MEC’s celebrated Season Opener is back. As always, it’s a cross-country celebration of all things wintery, with athletes, climate advocates and filmmakers coming together to help protect our planet. You…
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Ultralight Camping with MEC
MEC's ultralight designs are mirroring a shift in how people travel through the outdoors.
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Tested: MEC Couloir Insulated Jacket
The MEC Couloir GORE-TEX Insulated Jacket has made several of my winter layers obsolete with its multi-sport versatility.
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Tested: MEC Sustainable Jackets & Bibs
With more sustainable down and synthetic insulation pieces, here's how MEC is making good things even better.
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Cold-Tested: MEC Women’s Tremblant Long Parka
Insulated with 700 fill-power duck down, MEC’s Tremblant Long Parka is like a wearable big cozy sleeping bag.
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Manteau en duvet recyclé Bromont de MEC : au chaud pour braver les pistes les plus givrées
Il n’y a rien de plus chaud que le duvet. Voici comment MEC utilise cette matière naturelle pour apporter le plus grand confort aux amateurs de plein air.
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Give Back to Winter
MEC x POW Canada’s annual Season Opener is an all-out celebration to welcome and help protect winter.
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The Return of the Rad
The 90s are back, or at least some of their best MEC garments are...get RAD!
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Gear Shed: MEC SERRATUS Pace 40L Pack
When it's (finally) time to get your kid their own backpack, we like the MEC SERRATUS Pace 40L ultralight.
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Climber Sean McColl Joins MEC as Latest Ambassador
For more than two decades, North Vancouver–based climbing dynamo Sean McColl has been an unstoppable force in competitive sport climbing.
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Gear Shed: MEC’s New Couloir Collection
MEC throws some love to one of their most iconic lines ever, with a new-and-improved-but-still-old-school-jump-turn-awesome Couloir Collection.
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The Designers: For MEC’s Mark Knight, Lightweight Tent Design is all About Balance
When it comes to designing lightweight tents, few know more than Mark Knight, Senior Product Designer, Advanced Concepts at Mountain Equipment Co-op. As a designer at MEC for over a…
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Mark Sollors on Raising Awareness for Climate Change
This season, Mountain Equipment Co-op is once again rolling out its #Live4Snow campaign in partnership with Protect our Winters and Burton. For each Burton [ak] CA Insulator jacket purchased at…
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Paddle For The North: A Journey to Shed Light on Wild Spaces
Six buds, three canoes, two dogs, one paddler with zero experience, and a 63-day, 1,500 km journey through some of the most pristine waters in the world. If there is…
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Travel Channel’s Latest Show Profiles Canadian Family’s Mega-Trek
Text & photos by Bruce Kirkby. On May 7, 2014, we woke our boys (Bodi, 3 and Taj, 7) before dawn, leading them groggily downstairs in fuzzy pyjamas. A half…
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