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Where the Wild Things are: Rafting Canada’s Tatshenshini and Alsek Rivers
The grizzly bear emerges from the bush on the banks of Melt Creek, its low-slung head swinging side to side as it lumbers toward the swift-moving water. Two cubs follow, as oblivious as their mother to the fact that 15 slightly freaked out river rafters are watching from the opposite shore. Moments earlier Brad, leadContinue reading “Where the Wild Things are: Rafting Canada’s Tatshenshini and Alsek Rivers”

Wintery Wine, Dine and Dash in Kelowna
Tucked between bottles of wine, candles and jelly jars in The View Winery gift shop is a wooden sign that captures the optimism many Kelowna winemakers are embracing this winter: “If you pour it, they will come.” This snowy season over half of Kelowna’s 40-plus wineries are open for wine tasting, offering a more intimate,Continue reading “Wintery Wine, Dine and Dash in Kelowna”

The Bear that Disappears
Of all the very good reasons to take a trip down the Tatshenshini and Alsek rivers, which run from Yukon through British Columbia and Alaska to the Pacific Coast, surely the most compelling is the chance to see one of the rarest animals on Earth. It’s a bear so uncommon, and about which so littleContinue reading “The Bear that Disappears”
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