James Little: explore editor
June 2009 archive
Here's a hint
I mentioned in my previous post that the guy in this photo was spotted in Toronto last week with a 21-year-old. The 21-year-old in question was a Glenfiddich single malt whisky. (He appeared to be enjoying it.) It's an appropriate drink for a man of his ancestry. And that ancestry ...
Mystery man
- Posted on June 29, 2009 at 11:57 AM
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I'll send an explore hat to the first person who can identify the guy in this photo, who was spotted recently in Toronto enjoying the company of a 21-year-old.
Facebook time
For those of you who are into Facebook, you may be interested to know that explore now has its own official Facebook page. You can find it here. Our Facebook Department informs me that our page will offer some Facebook-exclusive content and will also hold the occasional contest. Right now, ...
Paddling the Don
As someone who has lived in or near Canada’s largest city for most of my life, I’m very aware of the fact that Toronto has all kinds of wild pockets, if you know where to look. So for years now, I’ve been trying to get a writer to do a ...
More on the Chic-Chocs
It occurs to me that in my previous post—in which I referred to Quebec’s Chic-Choc Mountains as “smallish”—I wasn’t really giving this range the respect it deserves. After all, these are the highest mountains in the province outside of the Torngats, which sit much farther north on the border with ...
Hiking in the Chic-Chocs
Last Labour Day, my long-suffering hiking partner (LSHP) and I made our first visit to the Chic-Choc Mountains, in Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula. For those of you who’ve never heard of them, the Chic-Chocs are an ancient range that run like a spine along much of the peninsula. They were once ...
A pile of awards
I have a piece of paper on my office wall that reads: "Awards are like piles. Sooner or later every bum gets one." And it's true that there do seem to be a lot of "award-winning" people out there. But some awards are a little harder to get, and a ...
Up close with bears
As I mentioned in my previous post, the June issue of explore magazine has a fascinating story on Dr. Lynn Rogers, a man who is arguably the world's leading expert on black bears. Rogers is somewhat of a controversial character. On first seeing photos of him in close proximity to ...
