Author: andrew

Trail elves needed for Baden Powell trail work in Cypress Park

Calling on trail elves to help improve the Baden Powell Trail in the Black Mountain area of Cypress Provincial Park! Since 2011, Knee Knacker has worked in partnership with BC Parks and The Friends of Cypress Provincial Park to improve the Baden Powell Trail in the Black Mountain and Hollyburn areas....

Black Mountain 2015 trail improvements racing ahead

This year’s volunteer project with BC Parks and Knee Knacker is coming into its final weekend (September 26 & 27), with two major pieces still to build. We’ve already had four days of work and it has been a awesome experience, with Knee Knacker runners and BC Parks rangers working together since late August...

Trail elves needed for Black Mountain trail project

We’re calling on trail elves to help tackle an ambitious project in the Black Mountain area of Cypress Provincial Park. Since 2011, Knee Knacker has had a successful partnership with BC Parks, the Friends of Cypress Provincial Park, and the North Shore Wetland Partners. We’ve worked together to make lots of...

Gardening on a grand scale at Hyannis

Okay, if you really must dot the ‘i’ and cross that ‘t’, our crew of twenty-three Knee Knacker trail elves were actually landscaping. And building. And digging. And moving stuff. Of course, potentially shaving a few seconds off everyone’s time was just the cherry on top of the improvements that...

Reality begins at packet pick-up

Nervous faces. Smiles. Friends and fellow runners talking about anything and everything, except the race that’s about to start in just over 30 hours. The excitement begins to build and reality sinks in as the packet pick-up goes by in a blur. Then Kelsy gathers the room for the pre-race...

Race day photos from cloud covered Eagle Bluffs

Cloud (not smoke) blanketed Black Mountain and Eagle Bluffs on race day. No views were to be had but the music rocked as the Aid Station recruited Black Sabbath to serve the Knee Knackerers. Karen Chow’s race day photos from Eagle Bluffs are here.