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Wayne Van Sickle once wrote a guidebook to Algonquin Provincial Park in a language that he could neither write nor speak (German). He also managed to land a job teaching at a French school in Calgary, even though he could barely speak that language. Of course, this might partly explain how one of his friends ended up in Anchorage, Alaska without pants.

To learn more about Wayne Van Sickle, click here.
 

A heartfelt thanks to every writer that submitted their funny travel and outdoor stories to our contest. Many of them made us laugh out loud! In the end, however, we received almost three hundred submissions, which meant that it was very difficult to choose the winning stories.

The prize winning stories are:

"Antlers Girls" by Lois Gordon — Grand Prize Winner!

"Pidge Rules the Roost" by Stuart Reininger
"Northwest Passage" by Steve Pitt
"Bob of the Jungle" by Robert Earle Howells
"Masters of Mayhem" by Greg Simison
"Pains, Trains & Wildfires" by Neil McKinnon

Click here to read the Grand Prize winning story.




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