ADVENTURE
Risk and rescue
Record snowpacks and ill-prepared trekkers collide with fatal consequences on Vancouver’s North Shore
By Shawn Blore

METEOROLOGY
In the clouds
A pictorial of cheerful fluff and menacing masses, and a poster guide to reading the clouds

HISTORY
Mattie sure shot
Photographing during B.C.’s turn-of-the-century mining boom, Mattie Gunterman preserved a pioneering era
By Charlotte Gray

ARCHEOLOGY
Where ancient hunters gathered
Receding waters and erosive winds expose a lode of prehistoric tracks, bones and artifacts
By Graham Chandler

WILDLIFE
Outbreak at the border
Ontario mobilizes against a new strain of rabies
By Scott Gardiner

Inside CG
Behind the scenes at Canadian Geographic

Editor’s notebook
Vancouver’s fatal attractions

Reverberations
No peace in the seal war, Trails of woe, Brainy birds

GeoWatch
Iceberg arch, Mighty meteor, Speed-demon turtle, Tourist talk

Curious by nature
Mutiny in the ant colonies

Off the Map
A utopian’s map of Canada

GeoMap
Canada’s bright spots

Reviews
Inuit women, Environment guide, Northwest Passage revisited

Imaginary Landscape
Winter 17 by Patrick Lane

A sense of place
Vancouver’s outer limits by Jim Sutherland

Bird’s-eye view
City of natural wonder