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  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Don and Anita Slobodzian sit beneath a large Vesna poster at TCU place, while taking a break from their volunteer work at the front desk of the festival. "There's a very strong Ukrainian community here," Don says.
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  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Don and Anita Slobodzian sit beneath a large Vesna poster at TCU place, while taking a break from their volunteer work at the front desk of the festival. "There's a very strong Ukrainian community here," Don says.
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  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Matryoshka dolls on display at the exhibit of Svetlana and Yuri Evemenko, owners of "Ukrainian Colors" in Edmonton, Alberta, in the Vesna Boutique craft and arts sales area.
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  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Organizer Judy-Ann Chabun, in charge of the festival's decor in 2011, cuddles one of the chicks in the children's area. Children's exhibits highlighted the theme of the 2011 festival: "Birds, Blooms and Pysanky – Spring Has Arrived".
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  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Yevshan Ukrainian Folk Ballet Ensemble, "created in 1960 with the goal of preserving, interpreting and expressing historical and contemporary Ukrainian cultural values for public enjoyment through technical and artistic excellence in the art form of dance", performs at Vesna Festival in 2011.
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  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Yevshan Ukrainian Folk Ballet Ensemble, "created in 1960 with the goal of preserving, interpreting and expressing historical and contemporary Ukrainian cultural values for public enjoyment through technical and artistic excellence in the art form of dance", performs at Vesna Festival in 2011.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Yevshan Ukrainian Folk Ballet Ensemble, "created in 1960 with the goal of preserving, interpreting and expressing historical and contemporary Ukrainian cultural values for public enjoyment through technical and artistic excellence in the art form of dance", performs at Vesna Festival in 2011.
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  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Dancers.
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  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Dancers.
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  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Dancers perform "Spring Arrives", specially composed and choreographed for Vesna, and performed for the first time this year (2011).
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  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Dancing at Vesna, as the evening winds down in the wee hours of the morning.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Organizer Judy-Ann Chabun, in charge of the festival's decor in 2011, cuddles one of the chicks in the children's area. Children's exhibits highlighted the theme of the 2011 festival: "Birds, Blooms and Pysanky – Spring Has Arrived".
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  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. "Psyanky by Daena", Calgary Psyanky artist Daena Diduck demonstrates the tradition of painstakingly dying layers of colour to create the Psyanka, Ukrainian Easter egg, in the Cultural Room at Vesna Festival 2011. The Cultural Room highlights a different tradition, showcasing a different artist, each year. Exhibits provide an opportuntity to raise the profile of artists and craftspeople, especially those who are not yet widely known.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Yevshan Ukrainian Folk Ballet Ensemble, "created in 1960 with the goal of preserving, interpreting and expressing historical and contemporary Ukrainian cultural values for public enjoyment through technical and artistic excellence in the art form of dance", performs at Vesna Festival in 2011.
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  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Svetlana Evemenko shows of a handful of colourful psyanky, dyed Easter eggs, at the exhibit that she and husband Yuri have set up in the Vesna Boutique craft and arts sales area. The couple operates "Ukrainian Colors" in Edmonton, Alberta.
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  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Bernie Pidskalny volunteers as a Kozak at Vesna. The Kozakia were citizen soldiers who protected the Ukraine, Bernie says. "'Kozak' means 'free people'," he says.
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  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Young dancers with Pavlychenko Folklorique Ensemble, a dynamic Ukrainian dance company based in Saskatoon, watch their colleagues while waiting their turn to perform on the Vesna dance floor.
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  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Matryoshka dolls on display at the exhibit of Svetlana and Yuri Evemenko, owners of "Ukrainian Colors" in Edmonton, Alberta, in the Vesna Boutique craft and arts sales area.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Dancing at Vesna, as the evening winds down in the wee hours of the morning.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Organizer Judy-Ann Chabun, in charge of the festival's decor in 2011, cuddles one of the chicks in the children's area. Children's exhibits highlighted the theme of the 2011 festival: "Birds, Blooms and Pysanky – Spring Has Arrived".
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  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Five-member, Saskatoon-based Tyt i Tam performs between cultural showcase performances.
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  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Dancers (possibly Yevshan Ukrainian Folk Ballet Ensemble) pose for a group portrait in the stairwell following a performance at Vesna 2011.
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  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Dancers (possibly Yevshan Ukrainian Folk Ballet Ensemble) pose for a group portrait in the stairwell following a performance at Vesna 2011.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. "Psyanky by Daena", Calgary Psyanky artist Daena Diduck demonstrates the tradition of painstakingly dying layers of colour to create the Psyanka, Ukrainian Easter egg, in the Cultural Room at Vesna Festival 2011. The Cultural Room highlights a different tradition, showcasing a different artist, each year. Exhibits provide an opportuntity to raise the profile of artists and craftspeople, especially those who are not yet widely known.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. "Psyanky by Daena", Calgary Psyanky artist Daena Diduck demonstrates the tradition of painstakingly dying layers of colour to create the Psyanka, Ukrainian Easter egg, in the Cultural Room at Vesna Festival 2011. The Cultural Room highlights a different tradition, showcasing a different artist, each year. Exhibits provide an opportuntity to raise the profile of artists and craftspeople, especially those who are not yet widely known.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Yevshan Ukrainian Folk Ballet Ensemble, "created in 1960 with the goal of preserving, interpreting and expressing historical and contemporary Ukrainian cultural values for public enjoyment through technical and artistic excellence in the art form of dance", performs at Vesna Festival in 2011.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Dancers.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Svetlana Evemenko shows of a handful of colourful psyanky, dyed Easter eggs, at the exhibit that she and husband Yuri have set up in the Vesna Boutique craft and arts sales area. The couple operates "Ukrainian Colors" in Edmonton, Alberta.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Dancers perform "Spring Arrives", specially composed and choreographed for Vesna, and performed for the first time this year (2011).
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Dancers perform "Spring Arrives", specially composed and choreographed for Vesna, and performed for the first time this year (2011).
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Dancers perform "Spring Arrives", specially composed and choreographed for Vesna, and performed for the first time this year (2011).
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Bernie Pidskalny volunteers as a Kozak at Vesna. The Kozakia were citizen soldiers who protected the Ukraine, Bernie says. "'Kozak' means 'free people'," he says.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Young dancers with Pavlychenko Folklorique Ensemble, a dynamic Ukrainian dance company based in Saskatoon, watch their colleagues while waiting their turn to perform on the Vesna dance floor.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Young dancers with Pavlychenko Folklorique Ensemble, a dynamic Ukrainian dance company based in Saskatoon, watch their colleagues while waiting their turn to perform on the Vesna dance floor.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Young dancers with Pavlychenko Folklorique Ensemble, a dynamic Ukrainian dance company based in Saskatoon, watch their colleagues while waiting their turn to perform on the Vesna dance floor.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Young dancers with Pavlychenko Folklorique Ensemble, a dynamic Ukrainian dance company based in Saskatoon, watch their colleagues while waiting their turn to perform on the Vesna dance floor.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Dancing at Vesna, as the evening winds down in the wee hours of the morning.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Dancers (possibly Yevshan Ukrainian Folk Ballet Ensemble) pose for a group portrait in the stairwell following a performance at Vesna 2011.
    Vesna Ukrainian festival2011-05-101-...tif
  • Vesna, A Celebration of Spring. Vesna Festival is one of Canada's largest and longest running Ukrainian cultural festivals. Young dancers with Pavlychenko Folklorique Ensemble, a dynamic Ukrainian dance company based in Saskatoon, watch their colleagues while waiting their turn to perform on the Vesna dance floor.
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  • PSAC Prairie Region 2014 Convention in Saskatoon
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  • Honours and Awards.
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  • Saturday banquet and tailgate party
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  • Sunday, after coffee break (committee reports?)
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  • REVP and Alternate election, with speakers beforehand.
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  • Marianne Hladun
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  • Honours and Awards.
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  • Political Action Photo.
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  • Political Action Photo.
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  • Sunday, after coffee break (committee reports?)
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  • REVP and Alternate election, with speakers beforehand.
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  • Honours and Awards.
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  • Political Action Photo.
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  • Saturday night brown bag auction
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  • Bill Kapphahn and Norma Gunningham-Kapphahn. Portraits at campsite at Hudson Bay Regional Park, end of Day 6.<br />
Bill:<br />
How many GASP tours have you been on? 2014, 2015.<br />
What was the first tour you have been on? When was it? Berlin to Copenhagen, 2013; Spain, 2012; Italy, 2014.<br />
What is the longest tour you have been on? When was it? Berlin to Copenhagen, 2013.<br />
What advice would you give somoneone on their first tour? Enjoy the sights!<br />
What do you like to eat on tour? Everything - lots of fruit and veggies.<br />
What is your favourite place to go on your bike? Why is it your favourite? To new places! As long as it's not too hot!<br />
If you could go anywhere on your bike, where would you go? Chile - South American tour.<br />
If you could ride your bike with anyone in histry, who would it be? Where would you go with them, and why? My wife - still love her company! or Stephen Hawking - even I could keep up. :)<br />
Norma:<br />
How many GASP tours have you been on? 2014, 2015.<br />
What was the first tour you have been on? When was it? Spain, 2012 (Majorca).<br />
What is the longest tour you have been on? When was it? Berlin to Copenhagen, 2013.<br />
What advice would you give someone on their first tour? Drink lots of water, take pictures, take your time.<br />
What do you like to eat on tour? Everything!<br />
What is your favourite place to go on your bike? Why is it your favourite? Any place with Bill. :)<br />
Tell us about your first bike. A hand-me-down, of course, 1965. I had to get on it standing on our front steps.<br />
If you could go anywhere on your bike, where would you go? South of France - wine, sun... what could be better?<br />
If you could ride your bike with anybody in history, who would it be? Where would you go with them, and why? Einstein: "I thought of that while I was riding my bike." Just for coffee to talk.
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  • Rob and Lisa Roschuk. Portraits at campsite at Hudson Bay Regional Park, end of Day 6.<br />
Rob:<br />
How many GASP tours have you been on? First one in 2015.<br />
What was the first tour you have been on? When was it? 2015.<br />
What advice would you give someone on their first tour? Relax, enjoy.<br />
What do you like to eat on tour? Subs.<br />
What is your favourite place to go on your bike? Why is it your favourite? Treed trails.<br />
Tell us about your first bike. Takes getting used to.<br />
If you could go anywhere on your bike, where would you go? Sask trails.<br />
If you could ride your bike with anybody in history, who would it be? Where would you go with them, and why? Wayne Gretsky, tour Alberta.<br />
Lisa:<br />
What advice would you give someone on their first tour? Enjoy.<br />
What do you like to eat on tour? Sandwiches.<br />
What is your favourite place to go on your bike? Why is it your favourite? Through forests, refreshing.<br />
Tell us about your first bike. Comfort and now hybrid.<br />
If you could go anywhere on your bike, where would you go? Northern Saskatchewan.<br />
If you could ride your bike with anybody in history, who would it be? Where would you go with them, and why? John Cabot.
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  • Barbara Shourounis. Portraits at campsite at Hudson Bay Regional Park, end of Day 6.<br />
How many GASP tours have you been on? 2015 is my 8th GASP.<br />
What was the first tour you have been on? When was it? The "Heart of the South" tour through Assiniboia in 2007.<br />
What is the longest tour you have been on? When was it? Border to Border in 2015.<br />
What advice would you give someone on their first tour? Relax - you'll do just fine.<br />
What do you like to eat on tour? Anything I like, especially fruit.<br />
What is your favourite place to go on your bike? Why is it your favourite? A tour up the Great Northern Penninsula in Newfoundland to L'Anse au Meadows (National Historic Site of Canada), because it felt like the end of the earth.<br />
Tell us about your first bike. It was blue.<br />
If you could go anywhere on your bike, where would you go? On the route from Paris to Instanbul.<br />
If you could ride your bike with anybody in history, who would it be? Where would you go with them, and why? Theodore Roosevelt, ride through Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota, because it is a great place to ride and he ranced there before he became President of the USA.
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  • Amund Otterson. Portraits at campsite at Hudson Bay Regional Park, end of Day 6. <br />
How many GASP tours have you been on? 11.<br />
What was the first tour you have been on? When was it? Radium BC to Cranbrook, 1980.<br />
What is hte longest tour you have been on? When was it? 600 km, GASP.<br />
What advice would you give someone on their first tour? Be calm and ride on!<br />
What do you like to eat on tour? Pasta.<br />
What is your favourite place to go on your bike? Why is it your favourite? Anywhere, a new place to explore.<br />
Tell us about your first bike. My mother's 28" coaster (brake).<br />
If you could go anywhere on yoru bike, where would you go? PEI.<br />
If you could ride your bike with anybody in history, who would it be? Where would you go with them? Louis Riel, east from Winnipeg.
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  • University of Saskatchewan residences, our overnight stop at the end of Day 3. Outside Qu'Appelle Hall, Voyageur Place.
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  • University of Saskatchewan residences, our overnight stop at the end of Day 3. Outside Qu'Appelle Hall, Voyageur Place.
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  • University of Saskatchewan residences, our overnight stop at the end of Day 3. Outside Qu'Appelle Hall, Voyageur Place.
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  • University of Saskatchewan residences, our overnight stop at the end of Day 3. Outside Qu'Appelle Hall, Voyageur Place.
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  • University of Saskatchewan residences, our overnight stop at the end of Day 3. Outside Qu'Appelle Hall, Voyageur Place.
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  • University of Saskatchewan residences, our overnight stop at the end of Day 3. Outside Qu'Appelle Hall, Voyageur Place.
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  • University of Saskatchewan residences, our overnight stop at the end of Day 3. Outside Qu'Appelle Hall, Voyageur Place.
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  • University of Saskatchewan residences, our overnight stop at the end of Day 3. Outside Qu'Appelle Hall, Voyageur Place.
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  • Jane Laxdal. Portraits at campsite at Hudson Bay Regional Park, end of Day 6.<br />
How many GASP Tours have you been on? 5 1/2.<br />
What was the first tour you have been on? When was it? 2009, Saskatoon - Biggar - Wilkie.<br />
What advice would you give someone on their first tour? Ride long distance before. Prepare well and come to have fun.<br />
What do you like to eat on tour? Everything.<br />
What is your favourite place to go on your bike? Why is it your favourite? Early morning rides on good roads.<br />
Tell us about your first bike. Very small, second hand, boy's bike.<br />
If you could go anywhere on your bike, where would you go? Anywhere beautiful in any country.<br />
If you could ride your bike with anyone in history, who would it be? Where would you go with them? Louis Riel, places he's been.
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  • University of Saskatchewan residences, our overnight stop at the end of Day 3. Outside Qu'Appelle Hall, Voyageur Place.
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  • University of Saskatchewan residences, our overnight stop at the end of Day 3. Outside Qu'Appelle Hall, Voyageur Place.
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  • University of Saskatchewan residences, our overnight stop at the end of Day 3. Outside Qu'Appelle Hall, Voyageur Place.
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  • University of Saskatchewan residences, our overnight stop at the end of Day 3. Outside Qu'Appelle Hall, Voyageur Place.
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  • University of Saskatchewan residences, our overnight stop at the end of Day 3. Outside Qu'Appelle Hall, Voyageur Place.
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  • University of Saskatchewan residences, our overnight stop at the end of Day 3. Outside Qu'Appelle Hall, Voyageur Place.
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  • University of Saskatchewan residences, our overnight stop at the end of Day 3. Outside Qu'Appelle Hall, Voyageur Place.
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  • Eldon Wilkinson. Portraits at campsite at Hudson Bay Regional Park, end of Day 6.<br />
How many GASP tours have you been on? 2.<br />
What was the first tour you have been on? When was it? GASP, 2014.<br />
What is the longest tour you have been on? When was it? GASP, 2015.<br />
What advice would you give someone on their first tour? Bring everything you think you might need: plastic bags, variety of zip-loc to garbage bags. You'll need something to put your inevitably sopping wet tent into.<br />
What do you like to eat on tour? Not picky, but egs and porridge for breakfast is preferred.<br />
What is your favourite place to go on your bike? Why is it your favourite? Christie's Il Secondo coffee shop and pizzeria in Saskatoon - my book, and coffee, and many relaxing times.<br />
Tell us about your first bike. Single speed, age 7, 1965.<br />
If you could go anywhere on your bike, where would you go? Saskatchewan can't be beat.<br />
If you could ride your bike with anybody in history, who would it be? Where would you go with them, and why? Theodore Roosevelt, Africa, because it would include some big game hunting.
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  • Dinner at Alexander's Restaurant, at the end of Day 3. Outside Qu'Appelle Hall, Voyageur Place.
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  • Rob Wallace. Portraits at campsite at Hudson Bay Regional Park, end of Day 6.<br />
How many GASP tours have you been on? This is my first GASP.<br />
What was the first tour you have been on? When was it? Manitoba (Russell to Winnipeg) with family of friends.<br />
What is the longest tour you have been on? When was it? Gatineau, QC - Mount Tremblant - Montreal - Kanata, ON, 512 km solo, 2014.<br />
What advice would you give someone on their first tour? Prepare so you have confidence and are comfortable going ahead or falling back.<br />
What do you like to eat on tour? Anything the group decides, preferably pasta, steak, veggies in a buffet.<br />
What is your favourite place to go on your bike? Why is it your favourite? Quebec: near family, language, bicycle routes, hostels.<br />
Tell us about your first bike. Man's bike at age 10, 28" tires, from Salvation Army, rode it under the cross-bar/top tube, maroon (colour)!<br />
If you could go anywhere on yoru bike, where would you go? France: Watch the Tour de France, ride the country, eat cheeses and local foods.
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  • Curtis Wilson. Portraits at campsite at Hudson Bay Regional Park, end of Day 6.<br />
How many GASP tour have you been on? 6.<br />
What was the first tour you have been on? When was it? Qu'Appelle.<br />
What is the longest tour you have been on? When was it? Haven't finished!<br />
What advice ould you give someone on their first tour? Don't die, don't die!<br />
What do you like to eat on tour? Beef.<br />
What is your favourite place to go on your bike? Why is it your favourite? On top.<br />
Tell us about your first bike. Brother's old.<br />
If you could go anywhere on your bike, where would you go? Back in time.<br />
If you coudl ride your bike with anybody in history, who would it be? Where would you go with them? Don (brother), Buddha, Mohamed, Jesus (the Nazarene), Martin Luther King, Ghandi.
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  • Dinner at Alexander's Restaurant, at the end of Day 3. Outside Qu'Appelle Hall, Voyageur Place.
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  • Dinner at Alexander's Restaurant, at the end of Day 3. Outside Qu'Appelle Hall, Voyageur Place.
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  • Arleene Arnold. Portraits at campsite at Hudson Bay Regional Park, end of Day 6.<br />
How many GASP tours have you been on? six.<br />
What was the first tour you have been on? When was it? 2005 Border to Border.<br />
What is the longest tour you have been on? When was it? Cycling PEI, NS and NL, 2011.<br />
What advice would you give someone on their first tour? Cycle your own ride, at your own pace, enjoy the sights and people along the way.<br />
What do you like to eat on tour? Anything - I get very hungry. :)<br />
What is your favourite place to go on your bike? Why is it your favourite? Anywhere - work, trails, highway.<br />
Tell us about your first bike. A blue girl's bike made for country roads.<br />
If you coudl go anywhere on your bike, where would you go? Across Canada.
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  • Helen Ager. Portraits at campsite at Hudson Bay Regional Park, end of Day 6.<br />
How many GASP tours have you been on? This is my first.<br />
What advice would you give someone on their first tour? Enjoy.<br />
What do you like to eat on tour? Anything fresh.<br />
What is your favourite place to go on your bike? Why is it your favourite? The old railway beds in Lumsden.<br />
Tell us about your first bike. Mountain Bike.<br />
If you could go anywhere on your bike, where would you go? Holland - Bike and Barge.
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  • Dinner at Alexander's Restaurant, at the end of Day 3. Outside Qu'Appelle Hall, Voyageur Place.
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  • Dinner at Alexander's Restaurant, at the end of Day 3. Outside Qu'Appelle Hall, Voyageur Place.
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  • Arleene Arnold. Portraits at campsite at Hudson Bay Regional Park, end of Day 6.<br />
How many GASP tours have you been on? six.<br />
What was the first tour you have been on? When was it? 2005 Border to Border.<br />
What is the longest tour you have been on? When was it? Cycling PEI, NS and NL, 2011.<br />
What advice would you give someone on their first tour? Cycle your own ride, at your own pace, enjoy the sights and people along the way.<br />
What do you like to eat on tour? Anything - I get very hungry. :)<br />
What is your favourite place to go on your bike? Why is it your favourite? Anywhere - work, trails, highway.<br />
Tell us about your first bike. A blue girl's bike made for country roads.<br />
If you coudl go anywhere on your bike, where would you go? Across Canada.
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  • Gord Kerfoot. Portraits at campsite at Hudson Bay Regional Park, end of Day 6.<br />
How many GASP tours have you been on? 8.<br />
What was the first tour you have been on? When was it? Wascana Freewheelers, two weeks, Saskatoon north to Waskesiu.<br />
What is the longest tour you have been on? Whe was it? RAGBRAI (Register's Annual Great Big Ride Across Iowa), Missouri River to Mississippi River.<br />
What advice would you give someone on their first tour? Get your bike checked, have good equipment. Bee in good enough shape to enjoy yourself. Get some miles/km on your bike before the tour.<br />
What do you like to eat on tour? I cook my own breakfast in camp, carry my own road food. Suppers can be in camp or at restaurants. I like all foods.<br />
What is your favourite place to go on your bike? Why is it your favourite? Wascana Freewheelers Wednesday night ice cream rides.<br />
Tell us about your first bike. Gravel roads to country school, 2 miles.
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  • Perry Wingenbach. Portraits at campsite at Hudson Bay Regional Park, end of Day 6.<br />
What advice would you give someone on their first tour? Train.<br />
What is your favourite place to go on your bike? Why is it your favourite? Small towns.<br />
If you could ride your bike with anybody in history, who would it be? Where would you go with them, and why? Bill Clinton - Saskatchewan.
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  • Gallery 148, Elbow, Saskatchewan.
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  • Returning to the old neighbourhood, walking along Kootenay Avenue and Ritchie Avenue on a fall (early winter) evening: Kootenay Avenue. 208 Kootenay Avenue.
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  • Rest stop, Highway 3, between Mistatim and Prairie River, Day 6.
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  • Out and about, exploring Unity in the evening light, Day 1
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  • Cyclists at rest stop on Highway 14, between Perdue and Asquith.
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  • New bridge and Highway 2 approaches at St. Louis, SK. Highway 2 under construction, south side of the river, looking south.
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  • Winter Camping, Paignton Beach, Prince Albert National Park. Paignton Beach campsite where Colleen (Gnyp) and I camped the weekend following my trip with Mark Nicholson. (Various compositions, to allow for placement of copy.)
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  • Winter Camping, Paignton Beach, Prince Albert National Park. Colleen Gnyp walks out onto Waskesiu Lake to admire the view (and check out the holes left by ice anglers earlier in the day).
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  • Winter Camping, Paignton Beach, Prince Albert National Park. Campsite at Paignton Beach. Note the rosehips. In anyplace but a national park, you can make a nutritious and delicious tea from them (you're not allowed to pick them in a national park).
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  • Winter Camping, Paignton Beach, Prince Albert National Park. Dinner: a hearty beef stew. Snow melts at the back of the stove. Water is important for winter camping; fortunately, there's an endless supply of soft water in melted snow.
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