Welcome to the Wandering Moose trail race... our humble beginning.
In 2012 I was coaching athletes in our fall trail running clinic for a race down on the coast. A few weeks before the race, the organizers changed the race date and the majority of my athletes could no longer attend the event, so I decided I would organize a pretend race on our local trails, despite not having the slightest clue how to do it. I had two weeks to put it all together...
We decided to make it charity run and I started to receive phone calls from random people asking where they could register, however we had to turn them away as it wasn’t a sanctioned event. My husband and I did our best to match the profiles of the original race and we went out the morning before to mark it with ribbon and flour that we put in water bottles. We made a little finish area and a few of our friends volunteered at the start and at an aid station. I made personalized “bat bibs”, as it was a Halloween event and everyone raced in costume.
The feedback was so positive that I decided to give this whole “race directing” thing a go and build off of this event the following year. We had 85 people registered for 13.5k, 27k & 42k events. I recruited my friends to help make finishers mugs where we painted individual mugs from the dollar store and baked them in my oven, along with finishers medals made of flour, salt and water.
The following spring, I added Nimble Bear, then a year later added Broken Goat and the following year, in 2017, we added the Wild Horse Traverse. These four events would eventually kick off the "Quadzilla"... a title (and t-shirt) you earn if you can finis all four of the races in our series. (any distances)
All of this came from finding the positive when our original race plans fell through... solidifying that a “positive attitude changes everything!” (p.a.c.e.) And the rest, as they say, is history...
In 2012 I was coaching athletes in our fall trail running clinic for a race down on the coast. A few weeks before the race, the organizers changed the race date and the majority of my athletes could no longer attend the event, so I decided I would organize a pretend race on our local trails, despite not having the slightest clue how to do it. I had two weeks to put it all together...
We decided to make it charity run and I started to receive phone calls from random people asking where they could register, however we had to turn them away as it wasn’t a sanctioned event. My husband and I did our best to match the profiles of the original race and we went out the morning before to mark it with ribbon and flour that we put in water bottles. We made a little finish area and a few of our friends volunteered at the start and at an aid station. I made personalized “bat bibs”, as it was a Halloween event and everyone raced in costume.
The feedback was so positive that I decided to give this whole “race directing” thing a go and build off of this event the following year. We had 85 people registered for 13.5k, 27k & 42k events. I recruited my friends to help make finishers mugs where we painted individual mugs from the dollar store and baked them in my oven, along with finishers medals made of flour, salt and water.
The following spring, I added Nimble Bear, then a year later added Broken Goat and the following year, in 2017, we added the Wild Horse Traverse. These four events would eventually kick off the "Quadzilla"... a title (and t-shirt) you earn if you can finis all four of the races in our series. (any distances)
All of this came from finding the positive when our original race plans fell through... solidifying that a “positive attitude changes everything!” (p.a.c.e.) And the rest, as they say, is history...
Course
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42km. 1300m ascent. 1320m descent.
This is a challenging 42km course & runners should arrive physically prepared. Runners will exit Myra Adventure park and run down June Springs road for approx. 900m until they reach the turn off on a short logging road that will take them into beautiful Myra Bellevue Provincial Park. They will gradually climb up to Pipers and over to Lost Lake. From here runners will hit grassy trail and continue to climb on a variety of sweet single track all the way up to the KVR. (grassy trail, outhouse trail, Swamp Thing, Captain Nemo) After a short flat section on the historic KVR, runners are in for a treat as they descend all the way down Crawford trail to look-out trail, hillbilly trail, and over to flamingo flats before back turning left on race classic and taking earring trail until they hit lower bench / Crawford parking lot and you're 2nd aid station. From here you will push through the rolling and loamy fairlane trails as you climb all the way to June Springs parking lot and your 3rd aid station. You will still have a bit of climbing to do before you can enjoy one of Kelowna's most unique and technical trails... Angel Springs. It's filled with roots and rocks and crosses over Mission Creek several times. This course wraps up with a series of punchy climbs that will pop you into the finish line! |
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21km. 712m ascent. 710m descent.
Runners exit Myra Canyon Park and run down June Springs road for approx. 900m until they reach the turn off on a short logging road that will take them into beautiful Myra Bellevue Provincial Park! A favorite on this side of the park, runners will flow along Pipers and over to Lost Lake before taking grassy trail and then turning left on outhouse trail which is fun and flowy single track. Runners will hit a short piece of FSR (Hromek) down to Bailout trail, which requires a sharp right hand turn! Bailout trail will be filled with beautiful fall colours and rolling terrain all the way to June Springs parking lot. After accessing your first aid station, you'll push on up to the top of Angel Springs trail where you will be in for a treat. A rocky, rooty, technical and super fun descent before the final set of steep climbs that lead you up to the finish line. A memorable and rewarding course! |
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10km. 510m ascent. 510m descent.
Runners exit Myra Canyon Park and run down June Springs road for approx. 900m until they reach the turn off on a short logging road that will take them into beautiful Myra Bellevue Provincial Park! A favorite on this side of the park, runners will flow along Pipers and over to Lost Lake before taking grassy trail and then turning left on outhouse trail which is fun and flowy single track. Runners will hit a short piece of FSR (Hromek) down to Bailout trail, which requires a sharp right hand turn! Bailout trail will be filled with beautiful fall colours and rolling terrain all the way to June Springs parking lot. After accessing your first aid station, you'll push on up to the top of Angel Springs trail where you will be in for a treat. A rocky, rooty, technical and super fun descent before the final set of steep climbs that lead you up to the finish line. A memorable and rewarding course! |
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