Sir Sam’s – First MTB race of the year The past weekend was pretty much a blur for me. Lots of time spent in a car for a very short time on the bike. I went up to Sir Sam’s on Friday to pre-ride the course. Normally I would have stayed the weekend for a [...]

After a crazy trail work evening, there are no old cobbled up log-bridges left in the whole WCC Trail system! The last bridge to be modernized was the one across the creek in the Stinky Girl trail. In addition to installing the new bridge, we’ve reinforced the eroding shores with huge rocks and logs, to [...]

Last night (May 24 weekend Monday) we removed the big fallen tree from The Bride, just after the bridge with handrails. The log on the Stinky Girl was left in place, with a slight modification (shown on the picture). Whenever trees fall onto the trails, we try to keep them as naturally occurring hurdles. Such [...]

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has placed a number of insect traps in trees in the Landfill Woodlands portion of the WCC Trails. These are flexible plastic funnel traps (like the one on the picture) that are suspended from tree branches and contain chemical insect lures. There will be a couple of students working for [...]

Aidan’s Opus Epic 8 Hour Spring Relay Race Report I had been looking forward Chico’s Epic 8 Hour Relay this year.  My mom and I had done it last year just for fun but this year, I was hoping to have fun and make it onto the podium. We arrived at the race venue two [...]