It’s a thrill to announce that Born to Walk is a finalist in the non-fiction category at this year’s Ottawa Book Awards. The other titles on the shortlist are Children of the Broken Treaty, by NDP Member of Parliament Charlie Angus, a pair of historical works by Carleton professors Tim Cook and Norman Hillmer, and Roy MacGregor’s…
An inspiring exhibition, Walk On: 40 Years of Art Walking, from Richard Long to Janet Cardiff, has come to a close at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland, England. The above contraption, which literally let the wearer follow the wind, was part of it. Work by internationally acclaimed artists such as Hamish Fulton…
I spent a day walking around Harlem with Matt Green this past summer. Matt’s “quest” is best explained by his website: imjustwalkin.com. Yes, it’s pretty awesome. Now I’m struggling to write about that day, and what it meant, and what Matt’s project means. I think it all ties together somehow, and somehow it explains why…
Video from last winter’s walk led by Dr. Stanley Vollant, from Manawan, Que., to Rapid Lake, Que. Who isn’t ready to face the day after a send-off like this? The next Innu Meshkenu (Innu Road) walk starts in a few days.
I was in Philadelphia recently and spent a couple of days with police officers who walk the beat in the city’s 22nd District. It’s a tough part of town: there were 35 murders there last year, and it’s only about four square miles in size. But an innovative new program, which sends rookie officers out…
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.
born to walk (and paddleboard) 