THREE THINGS ABOUT... AARON SMITH

1. The travel junkie is obsessed with Youtube videos on how to survive in the wild, watching hundreds of them, especially before going to bed. “I'm particularly fond of building homes out of mud.”

2. After damaging his shoulder and ankle “alley-surfing” on a skateboard, Smith was recently told in Burnaby General Hospital's emergency room that, at 40, it was perhaps time for him to grow up and stop the sport. “When you're 16 you just rebound; now I go down like an anvil.”

3. Echoing his childhood on a farm on the Niagara Peninsula, Smith's yard is divided between his vegetable garden and his wife's flower-centric patch. “I still fantasize about having my sweet, sweet plot of land in the future and doing my thing. There is something to be said for a big day of manual labour.”