2010 March Hare

Cross-Country event APRIL 11, Tansky Main, Jordan River

Well this was a great success with good turnout, We had 63 riders attending on a sunny Sunday morning.  The event got underway with a riders meeting at 10:15 am. For many of the riders , this event was the first chance for them to purchase their 2010 BCORMA Trail pass, so many were sold that we ran out of registration forms!  Thanks to Ken Kroppmans for bringing along some extra trail passes and forms from Kenco. The March Hare is traditionally a Junior/Intermediate event so that was our main focus this year, we decided to add the two other classes at the last minute. The experts and Veteran (55+ ) made up a third of the field with 17 experts and 4 Vets.  The Intermediates were 30 strong and the juniors were 12.  We received feedback from the Vet riders afterwards and it was decided that they should have been riding the B loop and not the A loop (with the experts)We’ll do that for next year.  The A  loop was over 17 kms long and through some very technical terrain and the B loop was over 8 kms long and included some challenging but less tiring trails. All four classes were treated to a few newer trails that many riders had not seen before let alone competed on and fun was had by all.

I received many comments about the high quality of the new trails that had been hand laid by the trail Crew .  The task of maintaining the  trails fall on mostly volunteer labour this season so we shall all have to get involved in the 2 or 3 work parties that the VMC will put on at the Tansky area. Watch this website for dates of the first work party, there will be one with-in 6 weeks from now so that we can repair the trails we just used and drain some puddles, plan on camping or just dropping in to help.

Special thanks go to The March Hare 2010 committee:  Mike Charchuk, Ryan Young,  and Kirk Hesketh,  also thanks goes out to Ken Kroppmans and Gary Bell  (Checkers) Trevor Fyfe, Peter Sprague, Barb Lorman, Roger Boothroyd and Mike Newman.