Outdoor Adventure

Photos of the Capilano Suspension Bridge in North Vancouver

August 5, 2011
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Slug crossing! There is much going on at feet level in the forest.

I’ve stood on the 137 metre (450 feet) long and 70 metre (250 feet) high swinging bridge many times throughout my life. As a kid, it was thrilling, as a teenager, it was cool, and as an adult, well, it’s still both of those things. The Capilano Suspension Bridge was built in 1889 and...

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Jordan: Wadi Rum photos

June 9, 2011
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The Bedouin tribes have many camels throughout the deserts of Wadi Rum in Jordan

The night was still, the sky fast asleep, and the stars the only other things awake. My friend Jordan and I left the handful of people not sleeping and venture out into the silent desert. We are staying in a Bedouin-like campsite in Wadi Rum, a 720 square metre desert in southern Jordan that...

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Jordan: Petra photos and hiking in the back way

June 1, 2011
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Ruins along the Main Street of Petra that you can explore (Jordan).

We had heard that there was a precipitous break in the trail that had to be shimmied over on a skinny rock ledge. Every time we came to a drop off, we would say to each other, “Is this the one?” When we finally came to “the one,” it was pretty obvious: each of...

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Glow Worms around Turks and Caicos in the Caribbean

December 6, 2010
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Kayaking in the Caribbean waters of Turks and Caicos. Photo: Amanyara Villas.

Remember glow worm toys, those dolls that light up when you squeeze them? I never thought they were based on anything real. Turks and Caicos While I was in Turks and Caicos to check out the exceptional Amanyara Villas*, I was out kayaking and noticed some holes in the sand. Looking much like the...

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Whitewater Rafting at Night with Horizon X, Outaouais

November 9, 2010
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Whitewater Rafting on the Ottawa River in the Outaouais region of Quebec. Photo: Horizon X

The first rapid is an easy class two. No one has ever fallen in. So seven of us paddle faster and faster towards it – I’m perched on the front left of the raft – lit only by the full moon at 11:00 pm. But we hit the rapid at an awkward angle. I...

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Mountain Biking in Outaouais, Quebec with Dominique Larocque

November 2, 2010
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A random group mountain biking at La RoccaXC Mountain Bike School in the Outaouais region of Quebec. Photo: William P. McElligott.

It was the prettiest outhouse I had ever used. There was even a candle burning gently inside. To the left was a large bottle of water with a pump over a bowl, along with fruity smelling hand soup. But onto the mountain biking. Two-time national team athlete Dominique Larocque had a small group of...

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