Last winter, I joined a two and a half week snowshoe trek in Quebec led by an inspiring Innu surgeon named Stanley Vollant, as part of his multi-year walking project. My feature about that trip — and the myriad health benefits of walking — will appear in the October 2013 issue of The Walrus. In…
Back in my Can Geo days, I went looking for a hut-to-hut hiking route in Canada to write about for our quarterly travel magazine. I found an excellent trail in Quebec’s Charlevoix region — and it had a luggage-shutte service!
These guys are the main reason why I walk. Look for my column on hiking the Bruce Trail with kids, in the fall 2013 issue of Mountain Life.
“Taking a walk is good for you.” That’s the kind of statement which, as a researcher who studies links between walking and mental health told me, may appear to come from The School of the Blindingly Obvious. But without hard data to demonstrate precisely how and why walking is good for our bodies, minds and communities,…
I walked from Toronto to my family’s cabin (i.e., shack) in cottage country a couple years ago. It took four days, and included a couple of boat rides. An article about the trek ran in an excellent magazine called Cottage Life in October 2012, but, sadly, it’s not online. Email me — danrubin at sympatico dot…
born to walk (and paddleboard) 