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These stories about the great outdoors, adventure sports and eco-tourism are made possible through the continued support of Canadian Tire Greater Sudbury as part of our Community Leaders Program.

 

Bold: Bird watching is way more exciting than most people think

Bold: Bird watching is way more exciting than most people think

Sudbury bird watcher Chris Blomme has had a lifelong adventure in studying the behaviour of our fine feathered friends
Bold: Adventures in pike with tournament angler Marc Pitre

Bold: Adventures in pike with tournament angler Marc Pitre

Pike are often the first fish anyone catches because they’re pretty easy to find, but not everyone enjoys eating them. Still, Marc Pitre of Sudbury fishing northern pike can be as exciting as fishing gets
Bold: Fall colours are the biggest outdoors attraction right now

Bold: Fall colours are the biggest outdoors attraction right now

Agawa Canyon Tour Train attracts tourists from around the world to see the Northern Ontario fall colours
Bold: Sudbury's ParaSports athletes enjoy the great outdoors

Bold: Sudbury's ParaSports athletes enjoy the great outdoors

'We take advantage of the fact that we live in a beautiful part of the world'
Bold: Painting in the outdoors is nice work when you get it

Bold: Painting in the outdoors is nice work when you get it

Two Nova Scotia men are painting a new mural in downtown Sudbury in the Mi’kmaq Eastern Woodlands tradition 
Bold: Have metal detector, will treasure hunt

Bold: Have metal detector, will treasure hunt

Members of the Northern Ontario Relic and Treasure Hunters like to use metal detectors to find things that other people have lost or forgotten
Bold: Northerners love their rocks and trees, trees and rocks

Bold: Northerners love their rocks and trees, trees and rocks

There are a lot of reasons why ‘rockhounds’ enjoy the great outdoors looking for their favourite rocks and minerals. In Sudbury it helps that a meteorite crashed here 1.8 billion years ago. 
Bold: ‘Unbalanced’ adventurer paddleboarding the Great Lakes

Bold: ‘Unbalanced’ adventurer paddleboarding the Great Lakes

Mike Shoreman, the ‘Unstable Paddleboarder’, aims to be the first person with a disability to paddleboard between two countries even as he crosses the Great Lakes to raise awareness and funds for youth mental health
Bold: Few things are finer or more fun than fishing in the North

Bold: Few things are finer or more fun than fishing in the North

Noted fishing writer and outdoorsman James Smedley talks about a lifetime of casting and reeling in Northern Ontario
Bold: Meet Northern Ontario’s extreme adventurer Jim Baird

Bold: Meet Northern Ontario’s extreme adventurer Jim Baird

Wilderness adventure expert Jim Baird believes there might be a genetic reason that people are attracted to spending time in the wild