Category: Community

Jay Piggott – North Shore Rescue

Some of you may know Jay Piggott. You may have even seen him on Knee Knacker race day…not as a runner, but as a volunteer with North Shore Rescue. He would get around to several locations during the course of the event, so you may have seen him in multiple...

Trevor Wakelin (third from left, wearing blue and yellow singlet) at the start of the 2001 Knee Knacker.

Passing of Trevor Wakelin

Hello Knee Knacker Community, It is with deep sadness that Keith Wakelin announced the passing of his brother, Trevor Wakelin, a 6-time Knee Knacker finisher and member of the Knee Knacker family. As many of you know, the Wakelin family has been involved with the Knee Knacker since the very...

Black Mountain 2015 trail improvements racing ahead

This year’s volunteer project with BC Parks and Knee Knacker is coming into its final weekend (September 26 & 27), with two major pieces still to build. We’ve already had four days of work and it has been a awesome experience, with Knee Knacker runners and BC Parks rangers working together since late August...

Trail elves needed for Black Mountain trail project

We’re calling on trail elves to help tackle an ambitious project in the Black Mountain area of Cypress Provincial Park. Since 2011, Knee Knacker has had a successful partnership with BC Parks, the Friends of Cypress Provincial Park, and the North Shore Wetland Partners. We’ve worked together to make lots of...

Gardening on a grand scale at Hyannis

Okay, if you really must dot the ‘i’ and cross that ‘t’, our crew of twenty-three Knee Knacker trail elves were actually landscaping. And building. And digging. And moving stuff. Of course, potentially shaving a few seconds off everyone’s time was just the cherry on top of the improvements that...

2015 Knee Knacker Race Volunteers

This is the last set of 2015 Race Day photos. It’s a photo gallery of some of the 190 Knee Knacker volunteers as they: Lugged kegs of water to Black Mountain; Recruited Black Sabbath to serve water on Black Mountain; Ran Cleveland Dam aid station with the efficiency of a well oiled machine; Dressed as Vegas...