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Roller Ski Clinic!
When
there's no snow, or there's not enough time to drive to the mountain,
rollerskis provide a movement specific opportunity to optimize your time
when you are able to be on snow. Providing both the physiological and
technical demands of cross country skiing, rollersking is a low impact
sport that allows a high training volume with a low risk of overuse
injury.The
clinic will provide a sampling of skate and classic rollerskis. Poles
and boots availability is limited and it is
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Sep 16th 2019
Nordic Week in Sun Valley --Part 2 (Off to the Races)
As part of the “Nordic Week,” Sun Valley put on an
exhibition skate sprint relay Thursday evening right in the town of Ketchum.
Not realizing that the race was a mixed relay, i.e. a male and female
partnership, I convinced my friend Leif Bergstrom to come up from Salt Lake a
day early to race with me. As it turned out, he and I were each paired up with
a couple of fast local junior racers. The course was a very quick 30 second loop that we were to
complete twice after each tag off. The wom
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Sep 10th 2019
Fun Begins at 9,000 ft
Family reunions are often Dickensian, as in “The best of times, the worst of times.” The meeting place this time around definitely implied the former situation as we would be spending time in one of our own childhood haunts: Mammoth Lake, California.Besides packing the necessary items like beer from Portland, also in the car were road bikes, AT skis, downhill skis, and hiking gear. With a large residual snowpack from a winter boasting 170% of normal snowfall, the skis turned out to be a good ide
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Aug 27th 2019
Nordic Week in Sun Valley --Part 1
Over the past several years I’ve been lucky enough to visit
some of the iconic XC ski races and destinations in North America. It’s not
easy to pick a favorite, but high on my list has to be the week of the Boulder
Mountain Tour in Sun Valley, Idaho. There are too many good things to say about
Sun Valley in the winter time: an abundance of blue sky, world class trails and
grooming, natural beauty--you get the idea.Until the 2019 season I’d only made brief stops through Sun
Valley for the B
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Aug 26th 2019
Devil's Lake, Wisconsin!
It was a "If you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes" kind of day. Devil's Lake State Park is located roughly 40 miles North of Madison, Wisconsin and features some great views and some fun rock climbing! The day started off beautifully cool and just a little overcast, then gathered 40 mph winds and a fairly substantial rain storm, before then turning sunny and 80 degrees! It was a pretty wild day, but we got in a few routes!
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Jul 31st 2019