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Challenges

Club challenges can be completed as part of group lead activities, or on your own

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Introduction

The club challenges are a way to encourage members to get active, be inspired and to celebrate the achievements of each other. Members who are able to complete a challenge will be recognized on the website and our social media platforms. These are meant to be challenging, and most of these will require a lot of time commitment to achieve.

Yearly Challenges

2024 Ramadan Challenge

Ramadan is a time for reflection, prayer and to reconnect with our faith with pure intentions. This is the month we try to be the best version of ourselves, and nip any bad habits that we might have adopted over the year. Through fasting, praying, reading the Quran and giving charity, we seek to get closer to the Allah, and strengthen our spiritual connection. It’s a transformative period that goes beyond the physical act of abstaining from food and drink; it’s about self-discipline, empathy, and fostering a deeper understanding of the values that define us. Ramadan encourages us to cultivate patience, gratitude, and compassion, not only towards ourselves but also towards others. As an outdoors adventure group, this sacred month provides an opportunity to merge the spiritual with the physical, finding solace and inspiration in nature. Through mindful hiking, we aim to embrace the challenges of staying active during Ramadan, using the trails as a space for reflection and collective growth.

We also need to be mindful that any activity we partake, does not hinder our ability to fast, do the obligatory prayers, and have the energy to be present in Taraweeh prayers. This challenge is not for everyone, if you feel like hiking in Ramadan will make you too tired to pray, or fast, you should abstain from it. With that being said, the 2024 Ramadan Challenge is to continue to be active in Ramadan. With shorter, quieter hikes, we hope to continue spending sometime appreciating nature and stay connected to the community.

There are two Ramadan challenges for 2024:

  1. Participate in 4 group events during Ramadan. These can be hikes, rock climbing events, and/or community iftaar.
  2. Continue hiking on your own, or with your family/friends. Hike a total of 50km in Ramadan months, and send us the log of your activities.
Learn more about this challenge.

Lifetime Challenges

The lifetime challenges are non timed-box challenges that can be completed at any point, either through group activities, or on your own.

Hike the entire Bruce Trail

Bruce Trail is a roughly 900km long trail in Southern Ontario, that runs from Niagara Falls to Tobermory. You can find more about the trail on the Bruce Trail Conservancy website: https://brucetrail.org/

To receive this recognition, you must hike the entire trail. There is no time limit for this challenge, and you can hike it solo, with Muslim Outdoor Adventures club, or any other hiking club.

Once you’ve completed the trail, you can submit your hike log to receive the recognition.

Hike 1,000KM in one year

To receive recognition for this challenge, participants must show that they’ve hiked 1000KM in one year. A year can be any duration of 365 days, and does not have to be from January 1st to December 31st.

You can submit either your strava/alltrails or other app log that tracks your distance, or submit a trip log that you wrote yourself that shows the distances and hikes that add up to 1000km.

A week in the wilderness

To receive recognition for this challenge, you must spend 7 days or longer in the backcountry. This could be an overseas trip organized with a travel/adventure company, or something you do on your own.

Natural Leader

To receive recognition for this challenge, you must be the primary lead for a minimum of 100 trips with the Muslim Outdoor Adventure Group. A list of events you’ve lead can be submitted to receive this recognition.

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