Rain Gear - Women's & Men's Patagonia Torrentshell Jacket – What the Maple Leaf Crew Wears!

As a windbreaker or for wet conditions, Patagonia's Torrentshell provides a 2.5-layer waterproof/breathable protection that's durable, lightweight and without frills.

The nylon jacket stuffs into one of two zippered hand-warmer pockets (and has a clip-in loop); the hood rolls down, stows away, and has a laminated visor; and the centre zipper has exterior and interior storm flaps.

Pit zips for added ventilation, a microfleece-lined neck, and a drawcord hem are the finishing touches that make this an outstanding wet weather jacket. Keep watching the bears even if a shower passes overhead! Embroidered with the schooner Maple Leaf sails/Maple Leaf Adventures logo. This item has a regular fit — see sizing chart below.

$130.00 CAD

Colours: Women's: Black and Natural (shown) Men's: Black (shown), Forge Grey, Channel Blue

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Fleece - Men's Patagonia Araveto Jacket – What the Maple Leaf Crew Wears!

This high quality Araveto's 100% polyester double-sided fleece will keep you warm and look good doing it.

The full-zip jacket is brushed and extra soft for all day wearing; supple trim at the cuffs, hem and neckline feels smooth on the skin.

Handwarmer pockets and a stand-up collar fend off cool breezes. Embroidered with the schooner Maple Leaf sails/Maple Leaf Adventures logo.The men's jacket has a slim fit but is not for just slim people!

$100.00 CAD

Colour: Classic Navy, Forge Grey

Fleece - Women's Patagonia Aravis Jacket – What the Maple Leaf Crew Wears!

The beautiful Aravis Jacket wraps you in warmth on a breezy deck.

Its lightweight yet dense, double-sided 100% polyester fleece fabric is brushed for softness, and this season is has been updated with micro-jersey fabric that trims the neck, pockets, cuffs and hem and looks fantastic. Our female crew love it.

The full-front zipper and stand-up collar preserve warmth. Zippered hand-warmer pockets keep your fingers toasty; interior drop-in pockets and zippered sleeve security pocket stash are nice little extras. Embroidered with the schooner Maple Leaf sails/Maple Leaf Adventures logo.The women's jacket has a regular fit — see sizing chart below.

$100.00 CAD

Colours: Fog (off white), Alaska Blue, Ginkgo (green)

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Soft Shell -Women's & Men's Patagonia Simple Guide Jacket

The Simple Guide Jacket is Patagonia's lightest weight soft-shell jacket.

More weatherproof than a sweatshirt and more tidy than a rain jacket, the simple guide jacket is great as a windbreaker or lightweight outer layer on dry days.

The jacket is made of polyester stretch woven fabric that moves moisture, dries quickly and stretches and breathes like a yogi – with durability. Embroidered with the schooner Maple Leaf sails/Maple Leaf Adventures logo.This item has a regular fit — see sizing chart below.

$120.00 CAD

Colours: Women's: Black and Prickly Pear
Men's: Black, Bali Blue, Alpha Green (this is a browny colour), Ginkgo

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Vortex Diamondback Binoculars

This year we are excited to be offering both the 10X42 and the 9X36 Vortex Diamondback binoculars.

Perhaps the best recommendation for these glasses is Capt. Kevin Smith's reaction the first time he used them: "Wow, these are really great binoculars." Bright, lightweight and powerful, you'll barely notice them around your neck. Learn about selecting the right binoculars.

Backed by a phenomenal, unconditional lifetime warranty*, both models offer superior quality and are designed to perform in all lighting and weather conditions.

These beauties have enhanced, fully multi-coated optics, phase-corrected prisms, waterproof and fogproof construction, soft tapered eyecups and rugged rubber armour. And the best news of all is that we are offering these binoculars for a special rate, significantly below the Canadian manufacturer's suggested retail price.

10X42: $279.00
9X36: $239.00

*VIP Unconditional lifetime warranty, includes:
• Unlimited lifetime warranty;
• Fully transferable;
• No warranty card to fill out;
• No receipt needed.

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Ball Cap - canvas
Back by popular demand – the Maple Leaf ball caps!

This year we have two types available. Our first hat comes in navy and is made of canvas. The hat has the Maple Leaf Adventures' logo on the front and "25 Years of Adventure" on the back. This hat is made-in-Canada … a rarity these days.

$25.00 Colours: navy blue

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Ball Cap – 100% hemp
Our second hat comes in natural and navy and is made of 100% hemp. This hat also has the Maple Leaf Adventures' logo on the front and "25 Years of Adventure" on the back. We searched across Canada for a made-in-Canada, natural hat … and we found it in our own back yard. This is one nice hat! Just don't try to smoke it!

$35.00 Colours: black or natural (off white)

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Maple Leaf Art Cards – 5 pack
Share the Maple Leaf with friends and family. These high quality art cards by renowed coastal artist (and beloved naturalist) Mark Hobson depicts the Maple Leaf under sail in the Great Bear Rainforest.

5 cards with envelopes: $15.00

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Beyond the Whales: The photographs and passions of Alexandra Morton
$30.00
Subject: Natural history and photography
Applicable to: entire coast

Whale researcher Alexandra Morton headed to the wildlife-rich Broughton Archipelago (site of our Whales and Totems trip) in the late 1970s to study whale language. She found a rich world with wonders far beyond the whales.

She shares her photographs and research in this delightful book that takes the reader into the Broughton Archipelago's natural and human world.

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A Year on the Wild Side by Briony Penn
$15.95
Subject: Nature Essays
Subject Area: Applicable to Entire Coast

"This is a collection of natural history essays and drawings based on and around Saltspring, in the Gulf Islands; they have been selected from weekly columns originally published in BC's 'Monday Magazine', and arranged to provide a round of the year.

In other hands this could be a direly predictable - and predictably dry - set of observations, but there's nothing predictable or dry about Briony Penn - her wit is sharp, wry, often quirky, and always humane, even when she laments the evidence of human folly in abusing the environment.

The observations, too, are full of gusto, but yet penetrating, and entirely eclectic; nothing is too slimy, too squidgy, too prickly, too creepy-crawly. A strong sense of enthusiastic gum-booted intimacy with nature comes through, but also a strong sense of underpinning ecological understanding based on sustained close field study and intensive background reading.

Because there is something of the clear-eyed close-peering child in Briony Penn's vision, her book will probably appeal hugely to kids, but adults too can read it with much enjoyment, and learn much of value, both factual and philosophical, at the same time. A little gem, and quite unique of its sort."

From an online review by Robert Aitken. We couldn't have said it better!

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The Great Bear Rainforest by Ian McAllister and Karen McAllister, with Cameron Young, forward by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
$39.95 Subject: Nature/Geography/Photography
Subject Area: Great Bear Rainforest (BC Coast)

The southern half of Canada's west coast is justly famous for its fabulous scenery and pitched battles to save remnants of its magnificent coniferous forest-but what about the northern half?

Between Vancouver island and Alaska, the mainland BC coast winds through a 250-mile wonderland of forested islands and inlets every bit as enchanting as the southern half, but still very much as nature created it, a wonderfully complex and delicate rainforest masterpiece ten thousand years in the making. The area is one of the northern hemisphere's richest unprotected wildlife habitats, the home of Canada's largest grizzly bears as well as the rare all-white spirit or Kermode bear.

Ian and Karen McAllister, both environmental campaigners, have spent over ten years exploring, photographing and researching this once-forgotten coast.

The book contains over 150 stunning colour photographs, including some of the most extraordinary images of wild bears ever seen in print, lush river valleys where grizzly bears feast on salmon, dramatic Coast Range mountaintops, exotic plants of the ancient rainforest, and some of the most magnificent coastline in Canada. With these photographs, a personable, informative commentary by Ian and Karen and environmental writer Cameron Young, and full-colour maps and drawings, this book is the first to unveil the beauty and magnificence of this unique place.

Since 1990, fourteen large rainforest valleys on the mainland coast of British Columbia have been lost to industrial logging. The publication of The Great Bear Rainforest aided Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, Ian and Karen McAllister's Raincoast Preservation Society and other environmental groups successfully lobby BC's provincial government for a moratorium on grizzly-bear hunting and the protection of a large portion of the area as parkland in 2001.

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The Last Island: A Naturalist's Sojurn on Triangle Island
By Alison Watt
$34.95
Subject: Nature/Narrative Nonfiction/Art
Subject Area: Applicable to Entire Coast, esp. exposed west coast

At twenty-three, Alison Watt left the comfort of a relationship and urban life to spend four months studying tufted puffins on Triangle Island, a remote bird sanctuary far off the northern tip of Vancouver Island.

She spent her summer in the company of Anne Vallée, a serious young biologist whose dedication to her field made her a formidable and inspiring mentor. Now, in the sixteen years since Watt last visited the island, Anne has died, and from the moment Watt arrives to do more research, she is flooded with memories of the summer they spent together.

Told in a gripping diary form, The Last Island blends native legends, evolutionary theory, scientific knowledge and an appreciation for the delicate balance required for creatures as small as krill and as large as fin whales to survive. Watt brings the island to life, recreating through sensual detail the sounds, smells, sights, tastes and textures of this desolate bird haven. Perhaps even more importantly, she recreates the jagged inner landscape of a young woman worn and warmed by months of seclusion.

With watercolours by Alison.

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