Is the polar bear’s life becoming even more perilous?
ADVENTURE TRAVEL: Life's tough for polar bears: the climate is extreme, ice quality is variable, and food is scattered over vast areas. Yet they persist ($)
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ConnecTour Chronicles: Warmshowers hosts have equally warm spirits
CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: Members offer a place for touring cyclists to pitch their tents and grab a shower. In exchange: an evening of conversation (FREE)
ConnecTour Chronicles: Out of the blue, an army on the prowl
CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: The bees came at us like a fleet of enemy fighter planes. ‘They started just hitting me. It was kind of like a cloud of bees’ (FREE)
A sudden, frightening crash sidelines one of our cyclists
CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: ‘I threw down my bike and ran over to her. She was lying still on the pavement, entangled in her bike’ (FREE)
ConnecTour Chronicles: An artistic treasure trove in a former biker bar
CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: By the door is an original painting by renowned Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau, one of dozens of pieces in Wilking’s collection (FREE)
ConnectTour Chronicles: Highlights, lowlights and lessons learned so far
CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: Learn to take it one pedal stroke at a time. And even though that hill can look intimidating, just get into the zone and take it slow (FREE)
ConnecTour Chronicles: A brush with heat stroke and then hypothermia
CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: Transport trucks, cars and four-by-fours roared by us, some so close we were showered in road spray and rocked by the wind gusts (FREE)
ConnecTour Chronicles: One man’s gear is another man’s gold
CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: Across from our campsite sat a gangly young man named Scott, who had been homeless for 10 years and was trying to find some normalcy (FREE)
COVID panic? Keep calm and carry on with bike tour planning
TRAVEL: Four of the five members of the core group who plan to cycle across the country have had their first shots. We’re ready to go (FREE)
How to protect yourself when a travel company cancels your trip
TRAVEL INSIDER: Standard or economy airfares: Do you know the difference? And how the selfie generation is altering travel experiences
An epic fishing adventure at the Arctic Circle
TRAVEL: Ten friends, a rustic lodge and days spent on the pristine waters of Great Bear Lake (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $29)
