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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Rediscovering Our Element With Bluefin SUP
words & photos :: Ned Morgan. Of all the ways to experience our natural environment, paddling takes us closest to our primordial origins in water. Paddling is adventure—we’re at once…
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Red Paddle Co: New 2021 Paddleboards
The new Red paddleboards have landed. We tried one, and we’re happy to report that the best inflatables on earth are now even better. The stand-out update to the 2021…
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Holy Grail: The First SUP Descent of the Mountain River
It’s July 1st, the start of our two-week voyage down the famed Mountain River in the Northwest Territories. We’re eating bacon and pancakes drenched in maple syrup, listening to The…
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Microplastic Sampling with Acadia Parent on Lake Huron
words:: Ben Osborne // photos:: Scott Parent Microplastics are a bit of a mystery—they’ve been known about for over 50 years, but only recently has it come to the public’s…
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The City of SUP? Toronto Might be the Place
words :: Dan Rubinstein. Toronto’s Leslie Street Spit is a busy place on a blue-sky weekday morning in June. Hundreds of double-crested cormorants swoop through the air and roost…
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Standing Waves: River Surfing on a SUP
words :: Dan Rubinstein. Growing up in Ontario, Mark Scriver paddled anything that floated. He started canoeing with his family as a kid, then drifted into kayaking, progressing from flatwater…
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Red Paddle Co 13’2” Voyager+ SUP
You’d be hard-pressed to find an iSUP better equipped for long-haul adventures than Red’s 13’2” Voyager+. High sides, large volume and narrower width make it a high-speed cruiser for experienced…
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Board Booster: Is This Propulsion System the Wave of the Future?
When Collingwood local Chris Vermeulen started his Kickstarter campaign he worried it wouldn’t work. But there was no need for concern; he raised the funds in three days. And money…
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Strong Water: The Ebb And Flow Of Canada’s Biggest Tidal Rapids At Skookumchuck Narrows
As the crow flies, the Skookumchuck Narrows Provincial Park is only 53.2 kilometres from the Watershed Pub in Squamish, BC. Almost due west over Lake Lovely Water, the Tantalus Range…
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How To Navigate On Water Using Langmuir Spirals
If you want to learn something about local weather, ask a local diehard paddler, kiteboarder or surfer. To paddle or surf effectively on big lakes requires knowledge of the weather…
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Hakai Crossing: A 240-Kilometre Paddleboard Mission from Snow to Surf on the BC Coast
The earth is 71 per cent water, human beings are about 60 per cent water, and our brains and hearts are 73 per cent water. Here in the Coast Mountains,…
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New Coast Mountains Issue Available Now
For most of us, time spent in the mountains is a shared experience: We meet our buddies for first chair or in the parking lot of the sled zone. We…
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15 Day SUP Adventure: Bella Coola River to Calvert Island
The idea of combining skiing, river paddling, ocean touring to the outer coast and surf brought friends and adventurers Jimmy Martinello, Chris Christie, JF Plouffe and Jon Burak together to…
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Top Tips For Freediving and Snorkeling by SUP
As soon as a conversation about freediving begins, two things usually arise. People often ask, “How long can you hold your breath?” or “How deep can you dive?” I find…
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Let the Ocean Be Your Safety Net: Deep Water Soloing
Eighteen years ago, on a sandy shore in Thailand, Helly Hansen Ambassador JF Plouffe and a few of his friends rented a guide and the use of his long-tail boat…
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MULTIPLICITY 2016: Jimmy Martinello on Finding Balance and Reconnecting with Our Surroundings
As local as they come in the Sea-to-Sky, Jimmy Martinello has climbed, skied, hiked, biked, paddled and traversed all throughout the Coast Mountains for the past 27 years. He has…
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MULTIPLICITY 2016: Norm Hann Stands Up For The Great Bear Rainforest
Norm Hann has been at the forefront of the stand-up paddle movement since the sport’s early days. As a SUP athlete, Norm has competed and raced around the world…
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Tips for Planning an Overnight SUP Adventure
by Colin Field It sounds like a crazy idea: take a stand-up paddleboard on an overnight trip. But considering the crazy things people do with these boards (crossing Georgian Bay…
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Climbing Howe Sound’s Sea Cliffs
by Jimmy Martinello The Coast Mountains rise from the ocean like giants soaring into the sky and the granite walls that embrace the rugged coastline along the Sea to Sky…
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