Tag Archives: MEC
Growing Up With MEC
Leanne Allison is an accomplished adventurer and filmmaker. She’s also a former MEC employee (I was lucky enough to go on a group sea kayak trip with her back in those days). She, her partner Karsten, and their son Zev … Continue reading
Waddington: Sarah Hart Samples Alpine Granite
An update from MEC Envoy Sarah Hart, who visited the Waddington Range in BC’s Coast Mountains. Success in the mountains is a relative thing. In the grand scheme of mountain adventure, just returning home safely is success enough. So, by … Continue reading
Big Wild, Big Water
At 243,000 kilometres, Canada’s coastline is the longest in the world. Add to that the total length of Canada’s fresh water shorelines, fjords, lakes, rivers and streams and we’re talking big water! The Big Wild, in partnership with the Canadian … Continue reading
Looking Through the Earth Day Lens
The first documented photo of the planet Earth taken from outside our atmosphere was snapped on October 24th, 1946 (well before the first satellite launched in 1957.) The black and white grainy image you see here was taken at an … Continue reading
Reaching Toward Nature: Six Websites We Love
Brought to you by The Big Wild. 1. If you haven’t already, we’re hoping you’ll check out “Drawn to the Wild,” a partnership project between The Big Wild and Canadian Singer Songwriter Sarah Harmer. We’re just a few weeks away … Continue reading
Happy Holidays!
All of us here in the MEC blogosphere want to wish all of you a very happy holiday, and all the best for the New Year. We’ve had a wonderful year writing about our favourite places, spiders, cobwebs and skunk attacks, … Continue reading
Signs… a Cautionary Tale
On a recent weekend trip to Whistler I noticed a trail marker while out hiking around that took me a moment to figure out. Then I started laughing. And then I found myself doing a quick check of my surroundings. But there was … Continue reading
MEC Photography
Hi, I’m Dave, and this post is the first in what will be a regular series of blog posts about photography. I look after the activity photos here at MEC. I’ve worked here for over ten years, starting as a … Continue reading
What’s on this weekend?
Well, Toronto had their turn. Now Vancouver gets theirs. Albeit with a little less hoopla. The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) is now on through October 14 so if you’re looking for some indoor entertainment, that’s probably your best bet. … Continue reading
Happy Birthday MEC!
40 years ago today, on August 2, 1971, a new consumer co-operative was born in Vancouver. The idea for the co-op came to be when four climbers, stuck in a tent on a rained-out climb on Mount Baker, were voicing … Continue reading
