Local Sports

Tucked behind trees next to Howe Sound Secondary is a concrete jungle usually filled with skateboarders ripping around the bowl, pumping trannies and grinding ledges of the Squamish Skatepark.

The Squamish Wolf Pack Pacific International Hockey League (PIJHL) team has expanded to include three more skaters. All three are former Squamish residents, and one will seem familiar to former Cougars fans.

A group of paintballers are home safe and sound, albeit with a few minor battle welts, after winning one of the province's largest scenario games in Grand Forks, B.C.

Tired but undaunted after more than 500 kilometres of high-quality mountain biking, about 450 bikers gritted it out on Friday (July 4) in the corridor's beautiful but challenging trails to cap the second annual B.C. Bike Race.

The 11th annual Squamish Triathlon - A Memorial to Bob McIntosh is set to dive into Alice Lake on Sunday (July 13), and there are still openings left for competitors.

The Squamish Mountain Festival will honour climbers of the past and present with an award named in honour of one of the pioneers of Squamish climbing.

The Squamish Wolf Pack started to gather by the summer solstice moon as the first four members of the Pacific International Junior Hockey League (PIJHL) expansion team were signed this past weekend.

Team Squamish downhiller Miranda Miller fell slightly short of her podium goal at the World Mountain Bike Championships in Val di Sole, Italy, placing fourth behind a strong lineup of French Junior riders on Saturday (June 21).

Records shattered against the North Shore Credit Union Test of Metal anvil as Max Plaxton and Wendy Simms improved the best men's and women's times by a whopping 18 minutes collectively.

It will be all hands on deck during the next two weeks as the crew of the Squamish-based Red Heather embarks on a 2,308-nautical-mile race from Victoria to the Hawaiian island of Maui on Sunday (June 22).