Tag: Brandon

  • Naked in the Spear Grass: The Wanderings of John Pritchard

    Naked in the Spear Grass: The Wanderings of John Pritchard

    If Yvon Chouinard was right when he declared, “It’s not an adventure until something goes wrong,” John Pritchard’s journey across the prairies in 1805 was an adventure with a capital “A”. On June 11, the young Englishman set out from home at Fort La Souris, east of today’s Brandon, Manitoba, with a friend to deliver…

  • Race the North Face

    A few short miles south of the city, the Brandon Hills tower above the surrounding farmland. Equally beautiful and cruel (to the unacclimatized flatlander) singletrack trails weave throughout this impressive landscape, and play host to the annual Race the North Face. I raced the course in 2022, and both thoroughly enjoyed the race and was…