Local Sports

The seventh annual Beyond the Valleycliffe of the Dolls (BVOD) is set to tour armoured mountain bikers through a maze of granite gems around the Valleycliffe area on Saturday (May 31).

Still smoking from placing second at the long weekend's Doug Conn Memorial Tournament in Victoria, the Howe Sound Cannons split a scorching doubleheader with the Brewers at Laroy Watt Field on Saturday (May 24).

The first Orecrusher cross-country mountain bike race in Brackendale was a smashing hit as 133 amateur and elite riders aged 12 to 50-plus powered through the Cheekye Fan on Saturday (May 10).

In a weekend filled with adventure racers and mountain bike speedsters the kids refused to be outdone as more than 200 young athletes from the Lower Mainland and Washington exercised their full spectrum of muscles in the eighth annual Squamish Youth

Thanks to $11,000 invested by the Test of Metal and Squamish Off Road Cycling Association, racers will no longer have to haul their bikes up the dreadful hike-a-bike that is Rock & Roll.

Through the course of one season, blueliner Dalton Thrower represented Canada in Nagano Japan, led the back end for Zone 5 at the B.C.

After 17 months of rigorous cleaning of rock, dirt and vegetation, the easiest full-height climbing route up the Stawamus Chief is open.

Hikers approached it carefully, walking over it with small steps especially when the rain made it slick and the worn chicken wire offered little respite.

Although local soccer may be winding down for most, the sport has just begun for a young soccer player who has earned a spot on the U14 Mountain Whitecaps Football Club.

Four Cycling BC Provincial Team riders from Squamish answered the horn to gather in Vancouver with 44 other members for an historic multi-discipline photo shoot on Tuesday (April 22).