When Hélène met François, she’d been dreaming of a long-distance bicycle trip for years. I think the fact that François was an experienced cyclist just
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You may know Irish Canadian author Emma Donoghue by the fame she has gained from her 2010 novel Room, and its film adaptation. I must
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“It will be a special week in a very special place. Lots of one-on-one time with mentors and lots of cowriting,” says singer-songwriter Kim Beggs.
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The Canada Games Centre, near the top of Two Mile Hill, opens every weekday morning at 5:30 a.m. I did not get there until 7:00
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It started many years ago. My guy saw it in a movie — a fleeting scene. It was a manly glass, big, and heavy; it
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The place is busy and noisy. Paul and Jeannine Baker look more like construction workers than artists. Jeannine is sweeping drywall debris in the kitchen/workshop
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For Elizabeth Nemeth, the tiara sparkled in her eyes since she placed third in the McDonalds’ Junior Princess competition – she was 12 years old.
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Dwayne and Nellie Backstrom might never be listed in the pages of The Colourful Five Percent; I don’t think they would care to be. But
The first year I ran in The Klondike Trail of ’98 International Road Relay, I was one of a group of women who were all
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“Wake up from your slumber sleeping beast. It’s time breathe again, it’s time to see again. You were born, you were born to be the
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How do you go to the bathroom in a canoe with eight other people in it, without stopping the boat? And I am not talking
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The babies sat in the driveway, tarped over, covered in snow half-melted in the April sun. I brushed them off, to let the sun begin
Motorcycle riders are often solitary sorts. We like the time we spend with ourselves on the road. It is a sort of meditation: no radio,
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Do you ride for pleasure? … or survival? For most of us, it’s not one or the other. It depends on the day. I have
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I think I have seven versions of “Motorcycle Trip Gear List” on my computer. Every time we go on a trip there are three more
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The season is over. As you may have guessed from my first column, I am not really an early or late-season rider. I will endure
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I was told the action was in the kitchen shelter. As I walked towards the building, I immediately raised my camera to take a picture
I am convinced that the Yukon has really happy ditches. I’ve always believed that places absorb the emotional energy of the human beings who have
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You should always start planning the next adventure before the current one is complete. Even better, before the current one even gets started. I have
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We introduced bikes. My favourite, “Flipper”, likes to “flip her rider”. Mine is Xena. I want mine to encourage my inner warrior princess.
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Plastic bags cover my feet to keep out the rain and the spray from my tires. My chain slips off the sprocket, again, unable to
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My best rides are framed by the rituals I have adopted. When we jump in our cars or trucks to drive somewhere, unless it is
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The goal of the Yukon Arctic Ultra is to be “the world’s best and toughest human-powered winter (ultra)-marathon race.” It’s hard to imagine a tougher
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It is amazing how a day can change. It was Friday night of a Discovery Day weekend and I was pretty upset … relationship issues.
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Most of me loves the twisties. There is a small part of me that is disappointed with the fact that I don’t always do them
I had to get my friend to ride my new motorcycle home from the dealership because I didn’t know how to ride. OK, it wasn’t
Fall is an absolutely stellar time to go mountain biking in the Yukon. It was a Sunday slated for chores when my guy gives me
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It is really annoying being on a road trip, not on a motorcycle. I am on a multipurpose trip; however, none of those purposes are
Over 30 years ago, in a moment of impulsive insanity, my partner and his best friend walked off into the Vizcaino Desert in Baja, California.
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Nicholas Mah is obsessed with music. But obsessions are good: “You know how, when you are an adolescent, you can get obsessed with things?” he
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“I’ve loved singing since I was a little girl.” says Edwards “I remember singing on the back of my mother’s bike, on the swing set”
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There is a line from the movie Evita: “it’s hard to keep momentum, if it’s you that you are following.” That’s exactly what the youth
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Kyle Cashen is leaving the Yukon for Vancouver. “No specific reason. It’s time,” he says. “I love Vancouver and I need to live in a
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The daybreak cacophony of squawks and splashes sounded like it was inches away from our tent. We had just spent our first night on the
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It is amazing what is popping up on Whitehorse trails these days. This week’s Sunday ride leader was my friend, Rick. As well as being
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Once I decided that not to ride was just plain wrong, I had to decide what kind of motorcycle to get. Not even knowing how
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As much as I like road biking, in Whitehorse there are two things that are almost impossible to avoid: wind and (sigh) hills. It can
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I don’t like to admit it, but I hate the feeling I get coming back home after a long motorcycle trip. There is so much
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Why do you ride? I’m serious. I want to know. I want to hear from every woman who reads this column. I want to know
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I am so jealous. I just picked my guy up from the airport, back from a two-day Superbike school in California. And he was just
I’ve always had trouble when it came to focusing on a particular passion in my life. Anyone who knows me would likely say that I
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Anybody ever read the book The Secret? If you have, you know it is about manifesting your best life ever. I spent the last hour
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“Power is essential for success…” But what is power? There is a famous little book that you can still pick up for about $12 new,
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