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Tahoe Donner Cross Country Ski Area Is Hiring

Tahoe Donner Cross Country Ski Area is looking for avid Nordic skiers to join our team. We have openings in our Professional Ski Patrol; Cross Country Ski School; restaurant, and a variety of openings at our Downhill Ski resort and Snowplay area. Tahoe Donner is located in the Lake Tahoe, California area, which boasts over 300 days of sunshine, a deep snowpack, and one of the Nation’s leading Nordic ski areas. https://www.myfuck.club/tags/russkie-dialogi-v-porno/ Contact xc@tahoedonner.com for...

Inequity is not Self-Correcting

We raise up all by promoting opportunities for gender equity in coaching. With the proper perspective, competition has the power to raise up. A great coach provides and promotes opportunities for improvement and growth. At its best, sport uplifts. Otherwise competition only separates a winner from the losers. Coaches only teach winning, and sport just sells cheap beer. Cross-country ski racing has an extraordinary power to teach lessons beyond the sport. Ski races are a...

Info from US Ski & Snowboard Ski Leaders and Coaches, There are TWO (2) links in the National Coaches Symposium below.  Click “HERE” for registration and click “Schedule” to see the full information packet on the National Coaches’ Symposium: GENERAL OUTLINE: U.S. Ski & Snowboard Biennial National Coaches’ Symposium September 27-29, 2019 is being held at St Louis Park, MN Recreation Center (Minneapolis, MN).  The focus this year is best practices for Junior and Youth development...

News Brief for the Week: The Mountain Runners & Skiers

Needless to say, cross-country athletes have big motors. Let’s start with The Rut 50-kilometer mountain run in Big Sky, Montana. With 10,000 feet of climbing and descending, it’s a burly affair. On September 1st, Erika Flowers, cross-country skier of note and Bozeman local, won the women’s 50 k overall in a time of 6:51:52.41 hours. This was Flowers’ first 50 k running race. South of rugged Montana, in the thin air of Colorado, Liz Stephen won The...

A Late Start

Summer has been chaos. Bright, shining chaos.   By the time mud season subsided here in the Idaho Panhandle, the calendar bulged with summer weekends that had been taken out of the unscheduled pot ages ago. Glorious, unbroken stretches of cheery weather forecasts beckoned for peaks to be bagged, rivers to be paddled, trails to be pedaled, tents to be inhabited, and clubs to be swung. Those same weather reports inspired home projects that were, inevitably,...

Press Release During Toppidrettsveka in Norway, SWIX experienced the rubber separated from the rim on some of our roller skis for skating, which unfortunately led to some athletes being exposed to dangerous situations, falling and getting the competition ruined. SWIX regrets this and takes full responsibility for this incident. The wheels in question are from a production lot that not has been in regular sales, and there are no wheels from this lot in the...

Frisco Nordic Center Hiring Guest Services Lead 

The Frisco Nordic Center is seeking a full time Guest Services Lead. This position runs from mid October to mid April and requires availability on weekends and Holidays.The Frisco Nordic Center is expanding (we’re building an additional 12kms of new trails over the next three years) and we’re looking to add to our staff. Guest Service Lead duties include: opening and closing, selling trail passes and food, tracking inventory, assisting special events and working with...

Geraghty-Moats and Watabe win Individual Events in Oberwiesenthal (Press Release)

  Press Release Tara Geraghty-Moats (USA) and Akito Watabe (JPN) were the winners of the first individual event of the Summer Grand Prix 2019. The American won by a large margin of +1:48.3, while Watabe distanced Franz-Josef Rehrl (AUT) by 1.5 seconds. Yoshito Watabe completed the podium on the men’s side, Stefaniya Nadymova (RUS) and Jenny Nowak (GER) claimed the podium positions for the women. Difficult wind conditions made ski jumping in Oberwiesenthal very difficult...

NENSA’s High Peaks Cyclery Rollerski Series Continues (Press Release)

The New York Ski Educational Foundation (NYSEF), the New England Nordic Ski Association (NENSA), the Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) and High Peaks Cyclery (HPC) invite athletes, friends, family and fans to a Rollerski race weekend in Lake Placid, NY. This is the second event of the High Peaks Cyclery will be hosting the C2C pre-registration / bib pickup from 6:00PM-8:00PM on Saturday night at their store in Lake Placid. Come get your bib early...

Toppidrettsveka Rollerski Races in Norway: Day 2’s Sprint and Day 3’s Classic Pursuit

  On Friday in Norway athletes gathered for a double-header day of rollerski races at the Toppidrettsveka festival. First up was a 25-kilometer skate race for both the men and women that concluded with a 1.5 k classic sprint in Aure. Below are the sprint race results. The U.S. Ski Team’s (USST) Sadie Bjornsen placed seventh overall, while Sophie Caldwell (USST) was 13th. Katie Feldman of the SVSEF Gold Team placed 27th overall. Women’s sprint...

Toppidrettsveka Rollerski Races in Norway: Day 2, Sadie Bjornsen Wins

Day two of the Toppidrettsveka rollerski races began in Aure, Norway with a 25-kilometer skate race. U.S. Ski Team (USST) athlete Sadie Bjornsen won the women’s race in 1:10:12.4 hours. Katie Feldman of the SVSEF Gold Team finshed in 25th (+8:08.8). Thirty-one women finished the race. According to a translated article from Norway’s NRK, several athletes used faulty rollerskis. As a result, race favorite Fridda Karlsson crashed and did not finish. Full men’s results  

Skirack Seeks Full and Part-Time Staff

Are you passionate about Nordic skiing and enjoy sharing that passion with others? Would you be interested in working in a fun and dynamic retail sales environment, assisting a diverse range of skiers in finding the gear and apparel that will help them ski more, ski faster, or — above all — with a smile? Skirack, one of the country’s leading Nordic ski shops, is seeking full- and part-time staff to join its team of...

Cross-country skiing is a taxing, yet incredibly rewarding activity. Any skier will tell you that having an intense workout smack dab in the middle of nature’s beauty makes for an almost euphoric experience. Unfortunately, not everyone is able to do it – let alone do it regularly. There are plenty of reasons for this, from living in a hot climate to simply not having the skills to ski for a long period of time, or...

Toppidrettsveka Rollerski Races in Norway: Day 1

The first day at the Toppidrettsveka rollerskis series featured a point to point 47 k classic race starting in Hitra, Norway.   Results: Women’s Top-20 Sophie Caldwell (USST) was the only U.S. women to enter Thursday’s race. Full men’s results Four U.S. skiers entered the race. Erik Bjornsen (USST) placed 28th (+1:29.8), Simi Hamilton (USST) 42nd (+2:49.2), Andy Newell (Salomon/US) 46th (+3:16.4), and Kevin Bolger 61st (+8:07.0). The series continues tomorrow with a 24 k...

Sugar Bowl Ski Team and Academy Seeks Nordic Coach

Sugar Bowl Ski Team and Academy​ is seeking a full-time, career track nordic coach for the 2018-19 season. Sugar Bowl Academy offers a year-round program for student-athletes, in grades 8-12 as well as a Post-Graduate program. The Academy offers both day and boarding options and we offer several development camps throughout the year. In addition, the Ski Team runs several seasonal youth programs designed to develop a passion for the sport and lifelong skills. Sugar...

Jackson Hole Seeks Assistant Coaches

We are looking to hire assistant coaches that are committed to student-athlete development and that are able to bring high energy and enthusiasm to training on a daily basis.We have assistant coach openings for the following teams: Teewinot: https://jhskiclub.org/program/nordic/nordic-teewinot-team Development: https://jhskiclub.org/program/nordic/nordic-development-team Junior: https://jhskiclub.org/ program/nordic/nordic-junior-team We often hire collegiate athletes that want to spend a season or two skiing Jackson Hole, but welcome anyone with a background in nordic skiing. For more info contact Nordic Program Director Ben Morley: 

Skiku, the Alaska-based program that teaches youth and adults cross country skiing and biathlon in remote Alaska villages, has named Calisa Kastning  Executive Director. Originally from the Upper Midwest, skiing is what brought Calisa and her husband Andrew to Alaska for jobs with the ski teams at the University of Alaska and Alaska Pacific University.   She is the parent of 3 young energetic daughters who have all been on skis soon after they learned to walk.  Calisa’s...

Welcome to the Women Ski Coaches Association (Press Release)

Press release Welcome to the Women Ski Coaches Association   WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE’RE DOING According to a recent U.S. Ski & Snowboard membership newsletter, men outnumber women by 2:1 in cross country ski coaching positions in the United States. At the head coach and program leadership levels, that ratio skews even further away from equal representation. Five out of 25 head cross country coaches in NCAA skiing are women. At the post-collegiate...