Canada

Spans temperate Pacific coast, continental prairies, and Arctic tundra—winters long and cold, summers short and regionally hot. Vast lakes, the Rocky Mountains, Shield boreal forests and maritime fjords produce every terrain. Key sports are back-country ski-touring and resort skiing in BC and Alberta, canoe-tripping the Shield, ice-climbing, glacier mountaineering, gravel/MTB epics on old rail grades, Atlantic sea-kayaking, and whale-watch surf-paddling on both coasts.