Come on out all trail runners for this fall fun race. It's a great time of year to just enjoy the forests and mountain air, meet new trail runners or see how your running has progressed over the season. The course will be almost all trail- I guarantee you'll love it! It will also be a great way to get ready for the Awesome Kaslo Sufferfest 3 weeks later.
WHEN: Saturday September 8, 2012
WHERE: Svaboda Road Parking Lot ( Top of Elwyn St. in Nelson)
RACE START: 9am rain or shine
COURSE: Coming soon, but all trail - NO Road except the first 400 meters.
Approx 13km of fun single track and a big loop in the middle.
REGISTRATION: At Race Start 8:00am-8:45am
COST: $35 Adult, $20 for 18yrs and under, $50 for the family. Cash or Cheque only
FUNDRAISER: All proceeds go directly to improvements of the Nelson running trails.
If you have any questions, fire me off an email at randy@spearhead.ca
Friday, August 17, 2012
Monday, August 13, 2012
The Rockwall Trail
When "Plan B" turns out to be better than "Plan A" it makes for an extra special adventure. My friend from Vancouver, Patrick Thrift and I were chomping at the bit all year to have redemption on the Earl Grey Pass Trail, but because the trail is in lousy condition, we opted for the Rockwall Trail in Kootenay National Park. The 60km ish long trail from Flow Lake to Marble Canyon covered some unreal-sensory overloaded- eye candy terrain. On a perfect blue sky day, the run took us up and down three amazing mountain passes (somehow I can swear there was four?- Maybe just a long false summit that I forgot about in the moment of delirium). The trail is almost a big loop, taking you back to the HWY about 15km to hitch back to the car. We got off at 6am as we new it was going to be a long day. It took 2:20hrs to get over Numa pass and another 2:20hrs to drop down into the valley and get to the top of the next pass. The hardest part of the run was trying to take in all the amazing terrain- it was easy to forget some of the grunting sections, because you were too busy blow away by it's beauty. What makes this a great trail is the choices of running just 25km or 40km instead of the whole 60km. Any of the shorter loops are just as worthy as they all take you up into the high alpine.
It took us just under 10hrs 30min to run with just under 9,000' of climbing, so the legs enjoyed the glacial creek at the end of the run. I'd highly recommend this run as it should be on every trail runners bucket list.
It took us just under 10hrs 30min to run with just under 9,000' of climbing, so the legs enjoyed the glacial creek at the end of the run. I'd highly recommend this run as it should be on every trail runners bucket list.
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| Flow Lake |
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| Almost up on Numa Pass |
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| what we thought was the last pass looking back , was just another false summit |
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| Just one more pass |
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| The rock wall on the left rises another 3'000' |
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| Helmet Fall- one of Canada's tallest |
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| Huge mud slide debris pile |
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| New growth after the huge fires from a few years back |
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| Marble Canyon |
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| Cold Cokes we stashed in the river at the end |
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