2 October 2011 - 7 Starters

Hi, I'm am trying to gauge interest in rescheduling Sunshine in September to the Thanksgiving weekend. Sibylle set me straight and there are currently no events planned for thanksgiving weekend, so I'm thinking it would be on SUNDAY, October 9. Anyone interested? As a reminder, there are two commonly run courses from Langdale Ferry Terminal. One is around 21k, the other around 24-26k. Shouldn't be any snow. :)

Please let me know if you think you may participate and if there is interest, i will finalize plans.

Thank you! Jackie

Just got off the phone with Bob Wall. He ran (solo) the trail succesfully yesterday in 14 hrs. He reported that the water and mud was extreme, and the fact that he was running the trail in Fall conditions made things very physical. He left at 4:30 am, and finished by swimming across the fianl river at 6:30 pm.

I had been planning to do this route for some time, gathering as much information as I could so as not to get our runnng group into any trouble. In the end, I had a partial idea of what we would encounter. The only way to fill in the blanks was to do it!

So yesterday, September 25, 2011, our group of 5 runners, ages from 45 - 63 set out on the route. For anyone lese planning to do it, here are my notes. Times are approximate, to within 5 minutes, I think.

00:00 Start from Rice Lake Gazebo on the Headwaters Connector 

00:17 Reach turn-off to Lynn Peak Trail

 

Hello !

Is there anybody who wants to go from Vancouver to Buntzen lake for 7:00 ? The 15 k start at 10.

Cheers !

Josée (604) 562-1795

 

Saw little sense in running up Mountain Hwy for the Mountain Highway Madness and not bagging a peak, so I took a little detour at the MHM turn-around, bagged Fromme, then completed my single lap of MHM.

The trailhead at the back (north-east) corner of the quarry is easy to find with a red arrow more than 2' long showing the way. This takes you up the mostly runnable south slope of Fromme.

11 September 2011 - 10 Starters (photo sans Rachel and Sibylle)

Had a very lovely and very clear day of bagging. Started up bcmc to grouse and onto dam... Took the longer route rather than the one that follows the pipe since the pipe route looked slippery. Went past the helicopter pad to the rocky little summit and hiked it over to little goat which gave us a really great view of goat, crown and the valley between them. Goat was a little more scrambley and challenging but had a correspondingly amazing 360 view on this nice clear day.