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The National Nordic Foundation and the Craftsbury Outdoor Center are excited to offer six limited edition signed prints featuring Olympic Gold Medalists Jessie Diggins and Kikkan Randall, along with other members of the US Olympic Team. These six pieces of American skiing history are being auctioned off individually to benefit the National Nordic Foundation, and the Craftsbury Ski Club junior scholarship fund. The proceeds will support American athletes competing overseas and allow youth to participate...

The Craftsbury Green Racing Project (GRP) elite nordic skiing and biathlon team is excited to announce a new partnership with Salomon. Starting with the winter 2018/2019 racing season, the GRP skiers and biathletes will be training in Salomon outerwear during domestic camps and competitions. The 2018/19 Green Racing Project team is made up of eight biathletes and eight cross-country skiers, including six Olympians from the 2018 Pyeongchang Games. Coaches Pepa Miloucheva and Sam Dougherty, as...

Applications for either the ski or biathlon program will be due March 30 and decisions will be announced by mid-April. In addition to our traditional year-round team, we’ll again be offering a summer training group for a small number of U23 and college athletes (find more about that program on our www.greenracingproject.com. The application is available here, and you will find skiing@craftsbury.com address, or call 802-586-7767 ext 343. Biathletes may address questions to Coach Sam...

The snow’s phenomenal, the cold is breaking, and the race director’s away making fast skis in Alaska:  let’s blow out some Marathon entries! The first 24 people who post their Craftsbury Marathon p/b Fischer preparation to Instagram or Facebook get a code for a $50 entry to the Marathon – an almost 40% savings!  But hurry – you only have until the end Monday, January 8th to complete your mission! Read all the nitty gritty...

Open the season with a freestyle interval start on our snowmaking loop. Focused primarily on providing a race opportunity for our visiting college and club racers, this low-key event is a great chance to test your early season adaptation to snow. Race starts at 10:30am on Saturday, November 25. Registration is online only, NO day of race registration. Bib pickup will take place in the AC classroom area beginning at 9:00am. We will use the...

Coming up in just a couple short weeks, Craftsbury and the US Biathlon Association are excited be offering our 4th annual Intro to Biathlon Training Camp from June 9-12. Do you have a 10-14 year old who wants to learn more about biathlon? Whether they've shot before or not, this is a great opportunity to learn or improve.

Craftsbury is pleased to announce that Anna Schulz and Ollie Burruss will be joining the Craftsbury team as Junior and Masters' coaches respectively. Both Anna and Ollie have a long history with Craftsbury and Nordic Skiing. Anna grew up skiing for Pepa at the Center, competing at the collegiate level for Harvard where she met Ollie. After graduation, Anna worked for a stint at the Outdoor Center before moving to Bend, Oregon where she coached at the Mt. Bachelor Sports Education Foundation. The past two years she's been in Burlington, working on a Master's degree in public administration at UVM, where she has also been researching how to adapt transportation infrastructure to the impacts of climate change. Along with Ollie she's kept in touch with skiing through coaching at the Mansfield Nordic Club.

The Craftsbury Green Racing Project (GRP) is now accepting applications for the 2015-16 training year. We expect to be able to add a few new members to the team. We’re excited to formally add a GRP Biathlon program in ’15-16. Applications for either the ski or biathlon program will be due by March 30 and decisions will be made by April 15 at the latest.

Build a better winter this August 4-8 at Craftsbury.

The Green Racing Project is happy to announce the addition of a new skier for 2014-15:  local skier, and long-time Craftsbury Nordic athlete Kaitlynn Miller will be joining the team for the coming season. Miller grew up in Elmore, Vermont, racing for Craftsbury in high school, and was a five-time member of New England’s Junior National Team. In 2010 she won a junior national title in the OJ (now U20) classic sprint and 10K classic....