Pure Outside

May is a beautiful time for a race. The weather is starting to improve, summer is just around the corner and you can easily beat anyone who hasn’t been training all winter. You’ve been training all winter, right? Saturday May 8th The Tzouhalem Gutbuster Trail Run in Duncan. Be careful of “the wall” in this [...]

2009 was an exciting year for me and 2010 promises to be even better. Here are the top 5 most popular posts from Pureoutside from this year. 5. A popular post from 2008 about Playing in the Snow on Green Mountain 4. Lorne’s report about the Snow Cave at Century Sam Lake 3. Erik’s review [...]

2010 will be, as every year has been, full of awesome events all over Vancouver Island. Make sure you check back to this page as it will get better and better every month! I’ll be adding to it whenever I hear about a new awesome event. If you’ve got one for a different area let [...]

If you like this post make sure you check out Island Adventurer as well. Island Adventurer will be promote the best of Vancouver Island’s trails and events. Pureoutside will be focusing on the rest of the world! If you’re familiar with my work at the Squamish MOMAR you’ll know that while I vowed to always [...]

Ever since I moved to Vancouver Island I’ve heard about the legendary MOMAR (Mind Over Mountain Adventure Race) race series and dreamed of competing in one.  It’s evoked many emotions for me over the years, awe, determination, jealousy, respect, fear and very recently, pain.  You see, last weekend was when I finally ballsed up and [...]