Issue 66 | November/December 2008

- Eco-travel: Mexico
- Survive!
- Cowgirls in the Rockies
- Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula

This issue features survival skills with Les Stroud, an eco-resort in Mexico, reading palms on a dude ranch, Mexican hot chocolate, photography on those wet days, staying young in Japan and the hunt for gold in Arabia plus much more.

FEATURES

32_BOOK EXCERPT: SURVIVE!
In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, Survivorman Les Stroud shares essential survival skills that just might save your life.
STORY: LES STROUD
PHOTOGRAPHY: LAURA BOMBIER

37_ECO-TRAVEL: MEXICO
Shed stress and perspiration at an eco-resort in Tulum, Mexico, where traditional Mayan remedies rejuvenate even the staunchest of skeptics.
STORY + PHOTOGRAPHY: KEVIN VALLELY

42_RAINFOREST REVERIE
Experience total rainforest immersion within the fragrant splendour of Costa Rica’s fiercely protected Osa Peninsula. Just watch out for the snakes.
STORY: LIZA FINLAY
PHOTOGRAPHY: NAOMI FINLAY

54_COWGIRL CONFIDENTIAL
On a Colorado dude ranch, one city slicker learns how to ride Western in the Rockies, read wranglers’ palms and walk off into the sunset, cowgirl-style.
STORY: ANDREA GRANT
PHOTOGRAPHY: LAURA BOMBIER

IN EVERY ISSUE

4_MAIL STOP
Your letters answered

7_TRIPPING
The heart and sole of the cowboy boot

8_ON THE FRINGE
Intergalactic paranoia, potable eels and bothersome badgers

11_GOURMET DU MONDE
Mexican hot chocolate – your tastebuds will yell “Ole!”

14_HEALTHPOST
The toxic truth about counterfeit drugs

16_THRILLSEEKER
Our writer takes a bite out of Venezuelan piranhas

18_MEC’S THE TRAVELLER’S EDGE
Tips from and for world trekkers

21_SHUTTER STOP
Don’t let wet weather stop your shutter

24_FIELD NOTES
Canadian adventure athletes track the ghost of Steve Fosset

30_GOING HARD
Feel the leg burn running up Vancouver’s mountains – in snowshoes

67_WORLD WRITES
A wild rowboat, an untranslatable word, starry skies and the hunt for gold in Arabia