Lee Kolosna says some old-school hikers might find this piece of advice heretical, but the number one item he recommends people bring on a hike is a smartphone with a portable phone charger. A veteran ...

The Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale, or ATES, was introduced in Canada in the early 2000s as ... OnX also allows you to download topographic data, so even if you’re without service, the ATES ...

Almost everyone uses a backpack at some point in their lifetime. Many of us use it for far more than carrying school books. A ...

J.A.H. Church (retired) as a training institution for survey and map production ... s commission in 1909 and a certificate as a dominion topographical surveyor in 1914. He was also a qualified ...

There are fifty 1:250,000 scale maps available, based on the National Topographic System (NTS ... four baselines come from the Canadian Geodetic Survey, Natural Resources Canada. On each listing, the ...

Air Canada has apologized after it emerged that some of its fleet displayed maps that appeared to have erased Israel.The carrier’s Boeing 737 MAX fleet were found to have moving maps — part of ...