COVID-19 pandemic has cancelled most travel plans and kept many people at home, but it’s also forced many people to get outdoors and explore Manitoba.Rick Shone, the owner of Wilderness Supply, says 2020 was a season like he’s never seen before, as COVID-19 caused the demand for hiking, camping, and other outdoors equipment to skyrocket.“We certainly could not have planned for what happened at the start of the summer,” Shone told Global News.“We’ve seen so many new customers.
So this summer it was a lot about educating new outdoors people.” Fire pits, heat lamps flying off the shelves as Manitobans get ready for an outdoor COVID-19 winter Shone says the interest remains, even as the weather gets cooler.“We generally slow down a little bit.