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About
the Team at Outdoor Adventure Canada
Outdoor Adventure
Canada™ is an online magazine owned and operated by GJ Studios
in Brant County, Ontario, Canada. For over a decade Laurie March
of GJ Studios
has been designing web sites and printed materials for other companies.
Bryan and
Laurie March came up with the concept for Outdoor Adventure Canada
over 8 years ago on a fall hiking trip. They returned home to
do some online research about Canadian backpacking trails. Both
Laurie and Bryan became extremely frustrated by the amount of
web searching required to find good information about the Canadian
outdoors. Laurie, being an internet specialist, realized that
what people needed was an eye pleasing and informative web site
that focused on Canadian outdoor activities; a web site that would
become a fun and entertaining forum for backpackers, paddlers
and hikers alike. After gathering a team of writers, an editor
and doing a considerable amount of research, the project became
a reality and Outdoor Adventure Canada™ was launched.
A
little history about the two people behind this idea…
Bryan
has been camping, canoeing and hiking since the tender age of
eight. It is strongly believed that his gear obsession was established
even as a small child. His unbelievable tarp skills and propensity
for rain should earn him an award. If only there was a trophy
for the most creative use of a tarp! As a photographer he has
a deep interest in wildlife and the night sky (when the rain has
stopped long enough for him to see it). After a long history of
car camping, canoeing and hiking, Bryan took his outdoor adventures
one step further; with a backpack.
Laurie
was born and raised in rural Ontario. Growing up in the country
gave her excellent opportunities to view wildlife, hike, camp,
snowshoe, cross country ski, and orienteer. A 4-H outdoor living
course taught her the basic survival and outdoor skills. After
ten years of participating in outdoor activities with Bryan, she
has developed a tolerance to rainy weather and purchased impenetrable
rain gear. Laurie enjoys backpacking, stargazing, and the outdoors
in general. She is most often the last one into camp because she
stops to smell every flower; look at every leaf; and photograph
every vista.
Laurie is
also an accomplished camp cook. Her recipes have been featured
in Lipsmackin' Vegetarian Backpackin' and The Joy of Backpacking.
Her own wilderness cookbook, A
Fork in the Trail, was released by Wilderness Press in
January 2008.
There are
several other people who are instrumental in the success of Outdoor
Adventure Canada. Each member of our team has a long list of people
who have helped along the way but there are a few that we feel
must be mentioned.
A special
thank you goes out to our readers because without your readership
and forum participation we would not be here.
Thanks to
our team and our writers (past and present) - without your hard
work this would not be possible.
Thanks to
Shelley and Claude Lauzon for the encouragement, help with finding
ingredients and for just being great friends. Shelley your Salmon
Cakes rock! A big thanks to Samantha and Michael Rogers and also
Dave Gillen
for the friendship and support.
We would
also like to thank Wenonah Canoe, Rick Carey at Nesco, MSR, Brunton,
and Jim Stevens at Johnson Outdoors for their continued support.
Last but definitely
not least... thanks to Tim
and Christine Conners (and their awesome kids) for the inspiration,
the constant encouragement, being courageous enough to come up
to Canada and canoe with us not to mention the Fabulous
Fry Brownies at the Cascades.
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