Overnight accommodation options for the GR XXV

As I write this from GoldRiver XXV headquarters (my kitchen table) in the last week of February, I am very pleased to say that VIME has...

We are living through a BC to AD communications epoch change…. Not one to change you calendar though, a Before Cellular to After Digital...

Motorcycle rental by CycleBC.ca Before we get into this blog post, intended for readers who are less familiar with VIME events, I would...

As I continued to review, reflect and refine after previous events, it is timely to repost this blog entry that I wrote a while ago......

The 2025 GoldRiver regularity rally

VIME Event Regulations - 2025.   The GoldRiver Rules. Acknowledgement: I, Jonathan Binnington, as proprietor of Vancouver Island...

You might think me a little premature to be thinking about next summer when winter hasn’t yet started, but there are many things that...

Sport takes many forms. Motorsport more than most. You’ve seen it on the telly, on social media, on YouTube, try to deny it, you...

Day 2 was the day of the autumn equinox in the northern hemisphere. The day when, anecdotally the weather flips from a summer pattern to...

The end of school party…. Trophies for the winner of this weekend’s event and the three event series. Winner is defined by a/ the...

Yes! It really is that stunning….. Hkusam Mountain, 1645m Monday 2 September was the day that five of us went up to Sayward Junction to...

The third weekend of September will see the third and final VIME backcountry navigation trial event for 2024. There will be two sets of...

Four days of roadbook navigation trials in the Gold River - Sayward Junction - Woss triangle As wide a range of terrain as I could find....

In order to keep the event running to a reasonable time schedule it will be necessary to have event riders observe strict daily...

GoldRiver 400. Standard Operating Procedure for dealing with Forest Service Road traffic. 1/ This advice/instruction is written in...

Are you coming? Yes, this is on one of the routes…..

Entries are still open It is now three weeks to go before the start of the GoldRiver400 (Les Chemins Sauvages) backcountry navigation...

This weekend past I have mostly been sitting on the bike…. I went up to Gold River with the intention of test riding the roadbooks for...

It’s now six weeks - or it was at the time of writing this - to the GoldRiver 400. I would like to offer these words of...