The MOMAR has teamed up with FEAT Canada to bring you 9 dynamic speakers in an electric atmosphere.  You will experience 40 years of climbing, extreme skiing, mountain biking, canoeing, kayaking, freediving, cycling and hiking all in one action packed night of adventures and expeditions.  Join us on Sunday, February 12th, at Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver for one inspiring night of speakers.

Click on the link to get your tickets and use the discount code FEAT3G7 to get 25% off the door price.

Do you like BUFFs?  If so, click here for you chance to win one.

Cumberland’s Colin Angus is taking his Amazon River Show & Film on tour starting this Thursday in Vancouver.  The journey sounds amazing and nothing short of inspiring.

Here’s what it’s all about (taken from www.angusadventures.com):

Colin Angus and his team were the first to voyage the entire length of the Amazon River by raft and only the third to navigate it by any means.  Meet Colin in person as shares his story of this epic adventure and screens the award-winning National Geographic film Amazon Extreme. 

His journey takes you to Brazil, Peru and Columbia, exposing hidden wonders only revealed when travelling on the most off-the-beat paths.  Delve into the depths of the Amazon jungle and find out what it feels like to raft treacherous class 5 rapids, be shot at by terrorists, and run out of water in the desert. 

The Amazon River begins as a maelstrom of whitewater high up in the Andes Mountains. From eighteen thousand feet, it cascades down to the Amazon Basin below through deep fractured canyons. It wasn’t until 1986 when the first team, led by Piotr Chmielinski, was successful in voyaging the Amazon’s full length. That adventure was written about in Joe Kane’s bestselling book Running the Amazon. The Amazon’s upper tributaries contain some of the word’s most dangerous whitewater. Before Chmielinski’s success, three teams had attempted to run the world’s greatest river but failed due to deaths in the whitewater.

In 1999 a multi-national team set out to run the full length of the Amazon River once again. Colin Angus of Canada, Ben Kozel, Australian, and Scott Borthwick, South African began their attempt in September. As well as their goal of voyaging the world’s largest river, the trio also wanted to cross South America from one side to the other under their own power. Since the 6,600-km length of the Amazon almost spans the South American continent, they decided to hike the four hundred-km from the Pacific Coast to the South American Continental Divide and the source of the Amazon. From here they would follow the river all the way to the Atlantic, rafting the Amazom River from its source to the sea.

Click here to purchase tickets.

Vancouver, BC
When: Thursday, April 7, 2011
Time: 7:30 – 9:00 pm (doors open at 7:00 pm)
Where: Hollywood Theatre, 3123 West Broadway, Vancouver, tel: 604-738-3211

Nanaimo, BC
When: Thursday, April 14, 2011
Time: 7:30 – 9:00 pm (doors open at 7:00 pm)
Where: Nanaimo Museum, 100 Museum Way, Nanaimo

Victoria, BC
When: Friday, April 15, 2011
Time: 7:30 – 9:00 pm (doors open at 7:00 pm)
Where: David Lam Auditorium, University of Victoria

Campbell River, BC
When: Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Time: 7:00 – 8:30 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm)
Where: Outdoor Addictions, 1980 Island Highway

Parksville, BC
When: Thursday, April 28, 2011
Time: 7:30 – 9:00 pm (doors open at 7:15 pm)
Where: The Chrysler Theatre, Parksville Community Centre, 132 East Jensen Avenue, Parksville

Courtenay, BC
When: Saturday, April 30, 2011 Â
Time: 7:30 – 9:00 pm (doors open at 7:00 pm)
Where: Stan Hagen Theatre – North Island College, 2300 Ryan Road, Courtenay

We are excited to announce a new partnership between the Greater Vancouver Orienteering Club (GVOC) and the Mind Over Mountain Adventure Racing Series (MOMAR). 

The GVOC will be designing and managing the orienteering stage at the Burnaby MOMAR.  Led by Canada’s National Orienteering Team coach, Magnus Johansson, this stage is guaranteed to be both challenging and fun. 

The MOMAR will also be partnering with the GVOC on presenting two Why Just Run events.  These events are ideal training opportunities prior to the Burnaby MOMAR.   The first Why Just Run event takes place on Sunday, March 20th, at the Watershed Park in North Delta. The second event takes place on Sunday, May 8th, at Rice Lake in North Vancouver. Prior to each event, the GVOC will feature a “Tips from the Pros” session with Magnus and National Team athlete Louise Oram.  The events may offer an option to participate in teams and/or on bikes.  Mark these dates in your team’s training calendar.

Also look for orienteering specific clinics taught by Magnus to be offered as part of our MOMAR Clinic Series.  We’ll be posting the clinic dates in February.

MOMAR racers are encouraged to spend time practicing their orienteering skills and the GVOC offers many other orienteering events throughout the year including thier Wednesday Evening Training (WET).  For more details on the the GVOC and the Why Just Run events, go to www.whyjustrun.ca.

We are very excited to announce that Dave Norona will present his feature documentary “The Iditasport Impossible” as part of the MOMAR weekend in Cumberland.

In the year 2000, Kevin Vallely, Andy Sterns and Dave Norona attempted to Cross Country Ski from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska following the 1800km Iditarod Dog Sled Trail. For 33 day they fought their way through minus 65 degree temperatures, insane storms and pushed themselves further than they had ever before. The Iditasport Impossible film was mastered by Chris Wilberg of Barney and Oscar Films and captures the beauty of Alaska as well as it’s harsh winter environment.

I have seen this film and it is nothing short of inspiring. You will be amazed by their perseverance and dedication to the end goal.  Seeing this film will be all the motivation you need to get you to the finish line at the MOMAR!

DATE: Thursday, September 24th & Friday, September 25th
TIME: 7:00pm & 9:00pm (doors 30 minutes prior to each show and no late admittance)
LOCATION: Reel Films @ Frelone’s, 2781 Dunsmuir Ave, Cumberland, BC
DURATION: 78 minutes film followed by a Question and Answer session with Dave Norona
TICKET PRICE: $15 + online ticket processing charge

All proceeds go to the Cumberland Community Forest Society. Tickets are very limited (35 per screening) and are sure to sell out quick.

BUY TICKETS ONLINE NOW:
7:00pm – Thursday, September 24th
9:00pm – Thursday, September 24th
7:00pm – Friday, September 25th
9:00pm – Friday, September 25th
* Please note that tickets will NOT be mailed out. Your name will be on a list at the door.

Long time MOMAR volunteers and supporters, John Crosby, Thomas Howard, Clifford Cunningham and Tom Skinner have teamed up and are now the team producing the Mud Run Ride event.  Formerly known as the Muddy Buddy and then the Mud ‘n Run, this is a super fun race in North Vancouver where you and a partner team up and run and ride over a 10km course. You only have one bike though so it’s a leapfrog concept.

I’ve done this race four times over the past five years and its always a great time especially at the end when you have to crawl under a cargo net and through a mud pit just before the finish line.

The race runs this Saturday, August 29th, at 10am from North Vancouver.

For more information and to register, go to www.mudrunride.com.

Coast Mountain Sports have invited us to their Friends and Family Spring Event this Wednesday and Thursday.  Save big on all your gear for your next big adventure!  Click HERE to download the PDF that you can print out and bring into your nearest Coast Mountain Sports.

Gavin Fletcher (front) at the MOMAR Cumberland 2006. Photo by Tony Austin.

The trail running season is well underway and the first notable race on the calendar (in my opinion) is the Fletcher’s Challenge on Good Friday, April 10th.  This Nanaimo based race is in memory of the late Gavin Fletcher who lost his life in a tragic car accident back in December 2006. Gavin was a sports writer for the Times Colonist paper in Victoria and only a few months earlier took on the MOMAR in Cumberland.  He wrote an inspiring and humorous account of his race experience which you can still read online.

The Fletcher’s Challenge is a ~10-12km trail run around Westwood Lake.  You can register online or at Frontrunners.  Cost is $20. For more info, click here.

It was great to have Greg and Francis (photo right) from Schick Xtreme3 on site during the Shawnigan Lake MOMAR. Here they are on the boat as the official starters of the race. I’m sure everyone went home loaded with a new stock of blades.

Remember that Schick Xtreme3 is sponsoring the Grand Prize trip for two to Hawaii. We will draw for this at the Cumberland MOMAR during the awards ceremony. To enter you simply have to make a donation to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of BC during race weekend.

And you can look for Schick Xtreme3 this week up at the Kokanee Crankworx.

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Today marks the start of the BC Bike Race — a seven day mountain biking journey that starts in Shawnigan Lake and ends in Whistler. Over 225 teams of two will travel over 580km filled with copious amounts of epic BC single-track.

Day 1 (Shawnigan Lake), Day 3 (Cumberland) , Day 5 (Sechelt), and Day 6 (Squamish) all feature sections of trail that have been used in past and current MOMAR’s.

Last year, I was the Course Designer for Day 1 & 2 but due to my new job with the City of Surrey, I had to resign my position. The BCBR was an amazing event to be a part of and I’ll miss being there this year. Good luck to all the teams participating and to the crew managing the show.

Team Helly Hansen / MOMAR are there on the start line despite having bike and injury issues in the days since the Test of Metal. I’m sure they will race strong and make us proud.

Keep checking back on this blog as I’ll be trying my best to post daily reports from Gary and Todd’s journey.

For those of you that are missing the Pemberton Music Festival for the MOMAR Shawnigan and need your music fix, then check out Surrey Canada Day! I’m part of the organizing team that is putting this monster together and we have Loverboy and the Payola$ headlining this year. Did you know that this event drew over 90,000 people last year making it the biggest Canada Day festival outside of Ottawa?

Now we don’t have the $5 million talent budget that Pemberton has but we did manage to also book in some great indie talent like Wil, Aliqua, and Five Alarm Funk. We also managed to bring back Rymes with Orange for a reunion and for you Beat listeners, you’ll want to check out Elise Estrada. Who knew that there could be this much fun in Surrey?!?!

Anyway, I’m sad to be missing the Pemberton show because I would love to see Interpol, Death Cab, and Wintersleep but I’ll just have to wait until next year. Oh, and check out the DCFC “I will Possess Your Heart” video — it should make you an instant fan.