Pure Magic: Surfing Madagascar’s Remote Barren Islands
This unsurfed archipelago 40 km off Madagascar's west coast offers up uncrowded breaks galore.
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Tested: Mustang Survival Quadra Drysuit
Getting (not) wet and wild with Mustang Survival's latest, budget-friendly, drysuit.
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Tested: ISLE Switch Pro SUP + Bixpy K-1 Motor
ISLE's new two-in-one inflatable SUP is the complete package. It's also compatible with the Bixpy K-1 electric motor.
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Behind the Photo: Exploring Abraham Lake’s Canyons by SUP
In the summer of 2023, Spanish photographer Irene Hervás rappelled and ziplined with a group of stand-up paddleboarders into a narrow canyon tucked away in Abraham Lake, between Saskatchewan Crossing and Nordegg, AB.
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Paddling Home
Circling 1,900 km of waterways in a months-long solo SUP journey exploring the benefits of 'blue space.'
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Three Stages of Nature Immersion
What exactly is nature immersion and how can it help you? The best way to figure that out is to throw yourself into a wilderness (or near-wilderness) experience.
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Ready to Paddle? Try a Maddle
With a fresh, happy Seventies feel to its colourways, Montreal-based Maddle is aiming for a market share of design-conscious beginner-intermediate paddlers who want a better inflatable.
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ML Presents: Pursuits Film Festival 6
The Pursuits Film Festival is back on Friday, April 14 with an evening of adventure films celebrating the outdoors in Ontario and beyond.
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Paddling Georgian Bay’s Stormy Northwest Corner
Our MEC gear and Blu Wave boards helped us navigate the exposed, wild waterscape of northwest Georgian Bay in comfort and style. Here's a rundown of some key pieces.
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Three Waters Doc Screening
Paddler and photographer Scott Parent’s debut documentary film Three Waters will be screened at the Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts in Parry Sound on Wednesday, August 17 at 7 pm.
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The SUP Destination We Can’t Share
We're leaving out the name of these islands we visited on a recent SUP trip, to protect them from overuse.
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ML Blue Mountains Summer 2022 Issue Out Now
In this Water + Wheels issue, we visit a remote Great Lakes island chain but don’t name it, explore the life-directing properties of an old canoe, revisit the edge of the world and shoot the legendary rapids of the Spanish River.
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Voyage to the Windswept Islands
A SUP trip to a remote island group in the Great Lakes reveals both the solace of nature and the long reach of the pollution crisis.
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Gear Shed: Summer SUP Roundup
We've curated five of our favourite SUPs for your summer of stoke.
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Getting Schooled: An Alpine-to-Ocean Epic
Almost crumbling under the weight of an 80-pound pack with burning cramps firing through my legs, I feel serious doubt seep into my tired, overheated brain and I ask myself for the 300th time in the past two days… “What have we gotten ourselves into?”
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The Open Window: Motos & SUPs in Myanmar
In late 2019, with Myanmar's borders open and a large archipelago of limestone islands that could be the long-hidden cousin of Thailand’s Railay Beach rock climbing scene, three Mountain Lifers cleared their calendars, rolled up their inflatable SUPS, found what might be the only place in the country to rent enduro dirtbikes.
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Pursuits Film Fest Returns
tival is back with an evening of adventure films celebrating the outdoors. The speakers are paddle guide/adventurer/ photographer Scott Parent and his daughter Acadia who will present about their SUP mission on the Great Lakes and the resulting film Three Waters.
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Voyage to the Nameless Islands
words :: Ned Morgan // photography :: Scott Parent & Glen Harris. Thanks to the SUP guiding skills of ML Contributing Editor Scott Parent, we circumnavigated a remote Great Lakes…
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