Sunday, September 13, 1998 — North Snore News — 49

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‘Sydor
| wins title
again

ALISON Sydor of
North Vancouver placed
second in the women's
cross-country race
- Saturday at the World
Cup mountain bike
final and it was enough
. to claim the overall title
_for the second time in
her career.

“Tt would have been nice to
win the race, but the important
ing was the overall stand-
ings,” said Sydor, 31, who was
the overall champion in 1996.
Gunn-Rita Dahle of
lorway won the race, clocking

¢- 31:2 kilometre course in
nz hour and. 51 minutes and
08°.seconds. Sydor, the
pic: silver medallist, was

qt at 1:53.05 followed. by

ce Leboucher of France.

the. overail Standings, Sydor
mpleted ani impressive cight-
‘World eit circuit. . She
three silver a

urth and fifth place

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with no trace

By Liam Latiey

Contributing Writer

THE Ei Nina Expedition has
drawn to a successful close.

Five women kayakers embarked on
the journey up the B.C. coastline
out leaving 3 uace of their passage
Their journey began on Feb. 20 ia
Alice Arm.

West Vancouver resident Jody
Simmons, the spokesperson for the
group, said the 2,000 kilometre jour-
ney has been a huge success for the
women.

“I's a wild feeling to be
after four years of planning
amazing feeling,” Simmons said.

The crew arrived at Ambleside
Beach to a hero’s welcome on Sept. 5.

“The North Shore fire boat put on
a beautiful display for us,” she said. “It
was a wonderful fecling to be home.”

Joining Simmons on the journcy
were Alice Webcr, Kristin Maddox,
Buffy Lundine, and Robyn Irvine.
Ranging in age from: 22 to 26,
Simmons added the most difficuh
obstacle tor the team to overcome was
their group consensus method of deci-
sion raking.

“We didn’t have a team leader, we

EL NINA kayakers (left to right)

Buffy Lundine, Robyn Irvine,
Alice Weber, Kristin Maddox
and West Van’ 's Jody Simmons.

wanted to go with a group consensus
on all decisions,” she recalled. “It was
the right choice for us, but at times the
process was fengthy.”

Documentation of the trip will be
used to promote the Leave No Trace
wilderness philosophy to outdoor insti-
tutions, schools, and libraries across
Canada and the United States.

The next step for Simmons is to
present a slide show of the expedition
at schools acress Canada.

“We'd like to be able to visit every
capital city from Vancouver to
Teronte,” Simmons continued.
“We've only solidly booked our first
date in Nelson on October 5 at the
Capital Theatre. We're hoping we can
drum up sponsorship to bring the slide
show across Canada, down into the
United States and back up into B.C.
again.”

Prior to leaving, the Nelson-based
crew sought corporate sponsors to help
offset the costs of the wip.

“There wert over 30 sponsors who
helped us out,” she said. “Everything
from the equipment we used to the
clothing, we wore was all provided for
us ... we're so grateful to everyone who
helped us our.”

For now, the team of kayaking
adventurers are taking a well deserved
rest for the month of September.

“I really want to go on the road
with the slide show and promote the
expedition from a base level,” Simmons
remarked, “We really want to nyake
people aware of what's out there.”

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