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News<br />
Summer 2011: it’s made for going around in circles<br />
Setting the speed record for<br />
circumnavigating Vancouver Island may<br />
be for the elite, but enough other circle<br />
adventures are set for 2011 to keep paddlers<br />
occupied in everything from competitive<br />
hauls to free-spirited fun runs.<br />
Back again is the Alert Bay 360, set this<br />
year for July 31 to coincide with the BC<br />
Day long weekend. It will feature a race<br />
around Malcolm Island (off Port McNeill<br />
on northern Vancouver Island). Plus the<br />
community gets involved with a Big House<br />
celebration, seafood buffet and First<br />
Nations cultural dance performances.<br />
The only catch: registration is being<br />
limited to 200 participants this year.<br />
Registration will take place online soon at<br />
www.alertbay360.com.<br />
Back for its 11th year is the Round<br />
Bowen Island Challenge. Well situated for<br />
Vancouver and Greater Seattle paddlers, the<br />
race is set for Sunday, June 26 and features<br />
a tough 35-kilometer slog around the Howe<br />
Sound island north of Vancouver. Visit<br />
roundbowenchallenge.com.<br />
Bound to entail less competition, the<br />
Gabriola 360 Fun Race takes place for<br />
its second year on Sunday, Aug. 21. The<br />
first year race organizers Silva Bay Kayak<br />
Adventures attracted 26 participants. Visit<br />
www.silvabayakaking.com.<br />
For more summer events, visit<br />
www.coastand<strong>kayak</strong>.com/events.html<br />
Clayoquot at risk – again<br />
With plans already in the works for open<br />
pit mining of the iconic Catface Range in<br />
Clayoquot Sound, a new threat is being<br />
faced by Flores Island as logging company<br />
Iisaak is looking to build roads into an area<br />
it signed an agreement in 1999 to preserve<br />
from logging. The Wilderness Committee<br />
is launching an email petition to halt the<br />
logging. Visit wildernesscommittee.org to<br />
add your voice.<br />
Meanwhile, Coast&Kayak columnist<br />
Dan Lewis and partner Bonny Glambeck<br />
will be touring British Columbia coastal<br />
communities this spring with a presentation<br />
called ‘Secrets of Clayoquot Sound’.<br />
Bonny Glambeck photo<br />
The Catface Range from Dick and Jane<br />
Beach. See page 30.<br />
The seasoned naturalists and expedition<br />
paddlers will share stories about their<br />
adventures at home in Clayoquot Sound<br />
backed by wildlife and landscape shots<br />
from some of BC’s leading outdoor<br />
photographers.<br />
The show will cover the natural beauty<br />
and splendor of the Clayoquot Sound<br />
UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, the ecology<br />
of the region’s ancient rainforests and<br />
threats to that ecology including fish farms,<br />
logging and the open-pit mine proposal.<br />
For dates and details visit the Friends of<br />
Clayoquot Sound website at www.focs.ca.<br />
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6 COAST&KAYAK MAGAZINE SPRING 2011