Best Outdoors/Adventure Feature • Honourable Mention
Coasteering in Snowdonia, Wales, the Ultimate Adventure Looking for an action-packed excursion in Wales? Check out coasteering, a sport that follows a rocky coastline both in the water and out. It’s a crazy mix of swimming, scrambling, leaping and caving – and Wales is the birthplace of the sport. I’m balanced on a stone, eyeing […]
Best Outdoors/Adventure Feature • Second Place
Finding Dory [For an old-school East Coast angling adventure—and a rewarding scoff of freshly caught cod— climb aboard one of Newfoundland’s traditional fishing boats] Holding a four-pound bronze codfish up by the gills, Darren Park declares, “That’s a prime Tbone fillet, right there.” Like many Newfoundlanders, Park takes pride today more than ever in hooking […]
Best Outdoors/Adventure Feature • First Place
SLEEPING WITH RHINOS The two-ton monster stares at us through the front door of our tiny tent, its long, curved horn pointing like a dagger. If that’s not enough to stir us from slumber, four of its buddies have us surrounded. Without warning a scuffle breaks out between two of them, with plenty of snorting […]
Best Outdoors/Adventure Feature • First Place
Cycling Among the Mennonites It’s not often you find yourself sitting in a Mennonite’s horse-drawn buggy. But here I was, snuggled under a dark-green fleecy blanket beside the bonnet-wearing, buggy-driving 67-year-old Viola Brubacher. Although it was only a short distance away, my bicycle, left back on the Brubacher farm, felt like something from a different […]
Best Outdoors/Adventure Feature • Second Place • 2016
Adventure travel: petting wolves at Quebec’s Parc Mahikan Is it crazy to want to kiss a wolf? I have no fear as I enter the enclosure; I’ve been waiting for this moment for most of my life. Created in 2009 by Gilles Granal, a Frenchman who raises sled dogs, Parc Mahikan (Cree for “wolf”) is […]