July 26 - 27, 2025
Sudbury Region, Ontario, Canada
Wilderness Traverse is
a 24 Hour Adventure Race hosted annually in Ontario, Canada.
Teams of 3 or 4 navigate using map and compass over 150
kilometers of rugged Canadian Shield back-country on foot,
mountain bike and canoe. It is one of the toughest team-based
endurance challenges around and simply reaching the finish
line is a massive achievement.
In 2025 Wilderness Traverse
will serve as the Championship Event in the AR World Series
North America Series
https://www.wildernesstraverse.com/
Results
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Randy Pascal
Stop and ponder for a moment what the
73 teams who took part in the Wilderness Traverse Adventure
Racing North America Championship endured in an event
that runs basically for a full 24-hour period —
or slightly beyond.
Drawing competitors both from Canada and
the U.S., including a large contingent from Quebec, the
run/walk/paddle/mountain bike undertaking also requires
at least one team member (each team must include three
to four people, all of whom must remain within 100 metres
of each other for the duration on the race) who has a
very solid knowledge of orienteering.
“We’ve been wanting to come
up here for a while — the terrain is just so well-suited
for this type of event,” noted Counter Adventures
founder and event director Bob Miller from Collingwood,
albeit with family on Manitoulin Island and with plenty
of adventure race background in the Parry Sound area.
“We look for the hidden gems and
then try and figure out how we can piece them together,”
said Miller, running race headquarters from Laurentian
University — also the site of the finish line.
“The actual City of Sudbury is unique,”
he continued. “It’s not a grid but a city
with streets that go all over the place, with all of this
elevation and topography. It’s just really cool
for what we do.“From our perspective, in setting
the course, it’s super unique from the rest of the
province.”
Seven buses would carry 261 participants
out to Moose Lake, just north of the La Cloche Ridge and
North Channel, with race legs that were, as follows: 27-km
hike towards Willisville; 45-km paddle (Lang Lake/Lake
Panache); 80-km bike (towards Walden Trails and Kivi Park
and eventually Lake Laurentian Conservation Area) and
finishing with a 10-km hike back to LU.
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