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New Canadian Avalanche Centre iPhone App

A new iPhone/iPod Touch application developed by the Canadian Avalanche Centre in partnership with Mountain Equipment Coop allows users to view weather updates and recent avalanche incidents for most areas of British Columbia.
Key features of the app include avalanche hazard ratings, weather forecast synopsis, incident report synopsis and real-time weather reports. In addition the information is cached [...]

Killing of female jogger a tragic reminder

Written by Denise Helm and posted on her blog: Woman on the Run.
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Female runners know they are different than men.
Physiology aside, women know their pursuit of fitness will never take the same route as men. Literally.
The killing of a Vancouver woman in the wooded Pacific Spirit Park near UBC hasn’t strayed far from the top [...]