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Finding the right camera bag to head into the mountains with is a notoriously difficult task. Above all, any bag you trust to keep your gear safe on the slopes needs to be tough and weather resistant. It needs to provide some cushion for your gear against possible falls (either you or rocks), and it needs to afford quick and intuitive access to your gear on slopes steep enough that having to think too much about how to get your camera out of your bag could put you in danger.
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Posted by Jimmy Thomson
in Mapping
on Wednesday, May 15, 2013
 Do you know which Canadian city this is? Take our quiz below to find out. (Photos: Chris Hadfield/Canadian Space Agency) For five months, astronaut Chris Hadfield has kept the world’s rapt attention from the International Space Station as he beamed photos and videos down to Earth. More than 900,000 Twitter followers waited for his latest pictures, which Hadfield liked to capture while the ISS passed over Canadian cities.
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 Mid-town Manhattan, 1991. Crime in New York was near its all time peak. Times Square was still full of seedy strip clubs and drug-pushing hustlers. If you told anyone in town that in 10 years it’d have a Disney store and the tourists would be queuing for the privilege of pinching the Speedo-clad butt cheeks of a Naked Cowboy troubadour, they’d have laughed in your face. This was a city that needed Batman, but all they got was Rudy Giuliani.
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 Commander Chris Hadfield is the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station. (Photo: NASA) Over the past five months, Commander Chris Hadfield has stolen the hearts of millions as he zooms around the Earth’s orbit, sending tweets to internet users far below. These correspondences, like thousands of digital message-in-a-bottles, spanned multiple mediums and ranged from the playful to the poetic. But together, they formed Hadfield’s invitation to the public to join him in his fascination and love of science.
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 We asked readers to help us choose between three cover options for our upcoming Summer Travel issue. Ah, there’s nothing like a clear-cut winner. Option three (see above), took 42 per cent of the cover vote for our Summer 2013 issue of Canadian Geographic Travel.
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