Yearly Archives: 2011

Sponsor change

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To our trail run­ning community:

I want to take this oppor­tu­nity to sin­cerely thank our long time spon­sor, North Shore Ath­let­ics, for their sup­port over the years and to let our trail run­ning com­mu­nity know that the Knee Knacker and North Shore Ath­let­ics have decided to end this arrange­ment for the 2012 year.

As many of you know, North Shore Ath­let­ics has a strong trail run­ning series (Run the North Shore), many trail, road, and triathlon clin­ics, and a loyal cus­tomer following.

On behalf of the Knee Knacker com­mit­tee, I want to thank Keith and the team at NSA and wish them all the best in their future endeavours.

Sin­cerely,

Kelsy Trigg.

Knee Knacker 2012 Race Day: July 14

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Believe it or not, plan­ning for Knee Knacker 2012 starts very soon for the Race Com­mit­tee. We like to plan early so that all you run­ners and vol­un­teers can relax on race day (July 14). The 2012 race entry dead­line is Feb­ru­ary 29 and you can check out all the other impor­tant dates here.

Building Boardwalks on Balmy Black Mt. (Sept. 25)

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Mark Grist (BC Parks Ranger and a Knee Knacker runner) had offered me the choice of either Sat­ur­day or Sunday for the Black Mt. Trail Day. I picked Sunday. If you recall, it was dis­tinctly summer-like on Sat­ur­day with the sun shin­ing and the humid­ity hark­ing back to an August heat wave. Sunday was the polar oppo­site. The word hind­sight comes dis­tinctly to mind. Con­tinue read­ing →

Rivers Day Volunteer Plant Pull

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If build­ing board­walks in rainy, muddy con­di­tions isn’t your thing, how about weed­ing? This Sunday, Sep­tem­ber 25, you can help cel­e­brate Rivers Day at Mackay Creek in Hey­wood Park (North Van­cou­ver, Marine Drive and Hamil­ton Avenue) from 10am-2pm. Join the City of North Van­cou­ver, Ever­green and other com­mu­nity groups to remove inva­sive plants and plant local species in the park. Tools, plants and light refresh­ments will be pro­vided. No need to RSVP, just show up!

Black Mt. Trail Day — Additional info

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In case you’re won­der­ing, we won’t be car­ry­ing any mate­ri­als to the work­site. BC Parks has already air­lifted all the mate­ri­als to the work­site. We only have to hike (or if you prefer, run!) to Black Mt. The start time will be 9am and we should be done by 1pm-2pm. No spe­cial skills are needed for this work; we’re just sup­ply­ing lots of Knee Knacker muscle power! Having said that, you don’t have to be a weight lift­ing god/goddess–many hands makes it easy to lift large cedar planks, which is what the board­walk decks will be made of.

Volunteers Needed for Black Mt. Trail Day — Sunday, September 25

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We need eight or nine vol­un­teers from the Knee Knacker com­mu­nity to help install board­walks through the mud pit sec­tion on Black Moun­tain in Cypress Provin­cial Park. We’ll be work­ing under the guid­ance of BC Parks on this project, which should take four to five hours to finish.

The board­walks are being installed to pro­tect the frag­ile bog envi­ron­ment on Black Mt. As side ben­e­fits, your run time will improve, you’ll ful­fill your 2012 race entry vol­un­teer require­ment, and you won’t have to worry about dis­ap­pear­ing into an inno­cent look­ing stretch of mud!

Please note there will be some heavy lift­ing required in this project.

To sign up, please con­tact Andrew (Trail Day Coor­di­na­tor) through the Con­tact Form by Sep­tem­ber 23.

Black Mt. Trail Day Scheduled for September 25

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Mark your cal­en­dars — the Black Mt. Trail Day is sched­uled for Sunday, Sep­tem­ber 25. We’ll need a small group of vol­un­teers to help BC Parks install board­walks over­top some of the marshy/muddy bits of the Baden Powell trail. More details will be announced in the next day or two.