2021 – That’s a Wrap of the 2021 Canadian Kawasaki Motors-NSORRA Hare Scramble Series!

Preplanning at its best

We had a good start to 2021. Five hare scrambles were scheduled. We introduced new classes:

- Women A and Women B
- Intermediate A and B
- we moved from +40 to +50
- and we reintroduced the non-competitive Sportsman class.

Canadian Kawasaki Motors returned as title sponsor and Soles In Motion as our awards sponsor. Perfect Powder Coating joined the top echelon of sponsors. Other sponsors began to step up, too. Things looked promising.

Then another wave of COVID hit and everything was put on hold…again.

We delayed our June Drive to Ride and our first hare scramble. Then we heard that Miller Meadow had been sold. We hoped for the best but it just didn’t work out. We cancelled the Miller Meadow scramble so we were down to four scrambles for 2021.

And they're off!

Canadian Kawasaki Motors - NSORRA Hare Scrambles

We kicked off our Canadian Kawasaki Motors hare scramble season on July 25 with Pro Cycle Scramble 1 at South Alton. We broke the record for participants at this location with 121 racers. This included 10 in the Expert class!

Round 2 was an early trip to Cape Breton and the much anticipated Thistle Hurt scramble and enduro put on by Herb and Sharon Harnish. We had 108 participants. Big news at this one? 10 competitors in the Peewee class with four of them being girls! One of our goals is to grow female participation in the sport and this is definitely a good start.

Scramble 3 at Craigmore was sponsored by Beta Canada, and attracted 114 competitors including 12 in Expert. This scramble happened because of the hard trail work put into the site by volunteers lead by NSORRA President Josh Kelly after the landowner’s planned tree harvest in late spring.

We ended the season on October 2^nd with 107 participants at Hiltz Road with Shore Cycle as scramble sponsor. The ever-popular annual Shore Cycle barbecue raised almost $500 for The Portal, a local homeless youth shelter in the Valley.

By the numbers

This year, we had 173 unique racers making up a total of 450 competitors over the four hare scrambles for an average of 113 competitors per scramble. 52 of these racers competing in all four races.

Volunteers provide a helping hand

Thanks to the Volunteers!

These races wouldn’t have happened without volunteers clearing the trails, setting up the scramble courses, handling registration, volunteering in timing and scoring, acting as sweepers and of course the NS Ski Patrol members who came out to support the events.

And the Award goes to…

Bill Brown, Atlantic Canada rep for Canadian Kawasaki Motors and Jen Estabrooks from Soles In Motion presented the hare scramble awards as follows:

NSORRA hare scramble series 2021 trophies

	Peewee		Intermediate B
1	Carter Ayres	1	Jens Sauer
2	Evelyn Kelly	2	Austin Hines
3	Brooke Harnish	3	Dakota Coates

	School Kid		Women A
1	Keegan Maxwell	1	Kathleen Tobin
2	Jordan Madden	2	Jillian Cross
3	Ryker Siteman	3	Robyn Harris

	Super Mini		Intermediate A
1	Lucas Ashford	1	Ewan Halfpenny
2	Owen Reynolds	2	Brennan Foote
3	Luke Curtis	3T	Justin Lewis
		3T	Riley Oliver
	Women B		Plus 50
1	Susan Foote	1	Nick MacDonald
2	Shannon Patterson	2	Neil Jennings
3	Melissa Steeves	3	Rod Conrad

	Junior		Expert
1	Caleb Lutes	1	Devin Gray
2	Brycen Murphy	2	Kyle Ledwidge
3	Aidan Chase	3	Herb Harnish

A Special Presentation

In 2018, Owen Reynolds placed third in Peewee in the scramble series and received his trophy at that year end awards event. Unfortunately, Owen’s trophy was lost in a fire that took his family’s home. On behalf of the association, we presented Owen with a replacement trophy. It’s not the same as the original, but we hope it will be just as meaningful.