Thursday, February 17, 2011 is the 5th annual Take A Hike fundraising adventure Moonlight Snowshoe. It goes from 6pm-9pm on Mount Seymour. Who: Take A Hike- Youth At Risk Foundation. Take A Hike empowers at-risk youth to reach their full potential through a unique combination of adventure-based-learning, therapy, academics and community involvement. Through their one [...]
January’s edition of Outside magazine (mandatory reading in my house) put several of their staff through some real life tests to find out what research about training, eating, resting, caffeine consumption, red meat and yoga (to name a few) you can take to the bank and what doesn’t live up to the hype. Here are [...]
Here’s the latest happenings from one of my North Shore favourites, Mountain Madness, a fun and supportive skills based training program for trail runners that offers great clinics and awesome events. WINTER RUN CLINIC. Here’s a chance to work off those chocolates and beer; the winter clinic to train for Dirty Duo 15 km run [...]
Last night I received an e-mail from a guy named Michael Coyle who writes a blog about Search and Rescue (and his life in general) called Oplopanax Horridus. Oplopanax Horiddus is better known as Devil’s Claw, as Michael writes “a large shrub native to cool, moist forests in North America, noted for it’s large leaves [...]