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ContributorsAl MacLachlan, editor
Jim Christy Ben Ferrel
Alistair Cochrane
Alistair has been running and hiking the trails of Vancouver Island for as long as he can remember. When he’s not outside soaking up the joys of nature, he’s probably sitting down at his laptop to write about his latest adventure. As a recent University graduate, Alistair is looking to find a place in the professional writing community and to blend his joy of writing and wilderness adventure into a dream career. Wilderness Travels is the first of what will hopefully be a number of wilderness publications for Alistair. cochrane@uvic.ca
Beth Bower
Beth grew up in Calgary, Alberta in a family that loved hiking, camping, and backpacking in the Rockies. Currently, she is working on a degree in English and Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria. Beth hopes that her work on Wilderness Travels is the start of a long career in sharing wilderness stories and discussing (maybe even solving!) environmental issues. Her all time favorite trail snack is a pb and j sandwich.
Raghbir "Raggy" Jin
April Link
In 2007 she attended Canadian Outdoor Leadership Training (COLT) where she became certified as a guide and met her partner. The two of them take their 18 month old-daughter on wilderness trips as frequently as possible. She went on her first real trip at three months old, a three day-canoe trip in Strathcona Park. James Murray
James has been living in Victoria and his hometown of Tilley, Alberta for the last few years. He has travelled most of Europe, Morocco, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. He is an avid surfer who specializes in travel and surf photography.
James has been published in several publications such as Alberta Views, Monday Magazine, Leika magazine and his work has been shown in galleries in Calgary (Art Central), the Demitasse, and at Abstract Exposure in Victoria. He recently published a coffee table photo book entitled "Travel & Surf : A Journey Through Lands" available at www.blurb.com Alan Sirulnikoff
As a photographer and writer Alan's work has been published in numerous magazines including Americas, Canadian Geographic, The Georgia Straight, Maclean's, Photo Life, The Sun and Travel and Leisure. A traveller, writer and photographic artist, he was born in the Canadian prairies, and now lives in Gibsons, BC, under an unassumed name.
Kris Rogerson
As a graphic designer, Kris' interests quickly shifted toward advertising copy writing where he also began writing copy for the web, including SEO web writing. After traveling abroad throughout South East Asia, he became intrigued with the idea of destination and travel writing. He is currently focusing on making this a career goal. Other hobbies and interests include world travel, photography, kayaking, climbing and painting.
Stu Young
Stu lives and toils in Gibsons, where he came to earth after a varied working life as game farm attendant, cab driver, night clerk, and librarian.
Unless otherwise noted all photographs were taken by Al MacLachlan ©2009-2010
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Al has written for many publications, and his photos have appeared in tourism, trade magazines and newspapers. He has also produced and directed documentaries & travel films. His novel After The Funeral was published by Ekstasis Editions of Victoria. He has travelled throughout Europe, Mexico, the US and Canada. With family and friends he has canoed, climbed, sailed, fished, camped & tramped throughout the wilderness of BC, and other parts of Canada.
Christy has written over 20 fiction and non-fiction books including travel books Rough Road to the North, Between The Meridians; the biography, The Long Slow Death of Jack Kerouac; and recently Scalawags, based on his long-running column for Nuvo magazine. He is a world adventure traveller, who George Woodcock described as "one of the last unpurged North American anarchistic romantics."
Ben has been wandering the hills of BC and Alberta since he awakened to their majesty sometime around the time he turned 10. Though in 2003 he relocated to Victoria to study physical geography, he has returned to the Rocky Mountains every summer to work and play. In the mountains around Lake Louise, he honed his climbing and mountaineering skills on his time off from work at Lake O'Hara Lodge. Having received a degree in 2008, he has now moved permenantly to Victoria and will finally get to see the Vancouver Island Alps without a thick blanket of coastal snow. 
Raggy is a Canadian-born journalist, artist and musician living in South America, bending to the every whim of his unquenchable wanderlust. His claim to fame is the five-month practicum he spent as the sole reporter, photographer and editor of the Weekly Review newspaper in Alberta. While studying journalism in college, he kept himself fed by working freelance for local media in Lethbridge, Alta. He now keeps eating down south by writing freelance for global media, along with some graphic design work and a healthy portion of busking. 
April writes magazine articles about wilderness tripping, yoga, parenting and various combinations of the subjects while also doing commercial writing for businesses. She earned a BFA in Creative Writing and a minor in English from St. Andrews College in North Carolina, in 2005. See her website at:
