Reporting Times & Places Bicyclists Price Chopper Plaza, Route 7 – Great Barrington, MA, 8:30 a.m. Canoeists/Kayakers Stockbridge Bowl, Boat Ramp, Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA, 9:30 a.m. Runners Camp Mah-Kee-Nac, Hawthorne Rd. Entrance, Stockbridge, MA, 10:30 a.m.
Urban legend has it that Bill Koch roller-skied up Mt. Greylock pulling his school-age daughter on a mountain bike. A rope around his waist, Koch supposedly double-poled eight miles straight uphill with a seventy-pound child behind him. Was this an extreme new strength-training concept, a fulfillment of childcare duties, or both? Even if the story isn’t true, it illustrates the lengths some parents will go to get a workout. TIME The number one limiting factor...
Well I think I have finally got it out of my system! The five days spent with Bjorn Daehlie and his father, Erling, at the Birkie were the culmination of months of planning that lead to as an intense, exciting and enjoyable period of time as I can ever remember. I first had the idea of inviting Bjorn to do the Birkie after discussions with Ned Zuelsdorff, Executive Director of the Birkie, and Colleen Kalt,...
Chad Giese is a member of the Saab Salomon Factory Team. He has raced on the World Cup, is a National Champion and a six-time winner of the Mora Vassalopet. This article first appeared in SkiPost – http://www.enjoywinter.com While being a professional skier for close to 10 years I have had plenty of opportunities to learn what training my body needs to be fit. Over the years I tried new things, went back to the...
Welcome to a special edition of the Nordic Dave Adventure Series. It's been a cold wet spring on top of an epic winter. Today 'ol nordic wanted to check out the High Unita's up on the Mirror Lake Hwy. A possible launching point for a multi day adventure from Mirror Lake to Kings Peak and just how much snow as there? (Mirror Lake Hwy jpg) Finding the highway giving up to snow at Trial Lake,...
James Southam reports on a late season ski adventure with Lars Flora in Alaska For Lars' last day in Alaska this spring, we had planned a big adventure sea kayaking out of Whittier to get some unbelievable crust skiing out in Prince William sound. We loaded up and headed off down the road, only to get a call from the rental shop saying that it was too windy and they wouldn't let us take out...
This is the latest installment of Kevin Brooker’s journey into the land of Biathlon. Kevin has documented his experience over the course of his first summer of training and has now finally gotten up the good part – getting on snow…. Season Wrap-up The end of the season is always bittersweet. Warm sunshine and soft snow make skiing fun but the desire to “train†has faded away. A bit of effort was needed to keep...
This is the latest installment of Kevin Brooker’s journey into the land of Biathlon. Kevin has documented his experience over the course of his first summer of training and has now finally gotten up the good part – getting on snow…. The best way to place the level of competition for the NorAm Cup races is to think of it a double A baseball. The athletes in the elite divisions are vying for a spot...
Wouldn’t it be neat if you could ski across your state? That’s assuming it snows in your state. If it does, what about a winter travel corridor that patches together existing ski and snow mobile trails, unplowed roads, power line cuts, private property, lakes, and farmers’ fields to allow continuous travel on ski all the way from one end to the other? Add a few good places to stay along the route so that camping...
This is the latest installment of Kevin Brooker’s journey into the land of Biathlon. Kevin has documented his experience over the course of his first summer of trinaing and has now finally gotten up the good part – getting on snow…. The summer biathlon season was over right at the end of September. Rollerskiing was the next transition or transformation in my yearly training schedule. Athletic activity in Vermont during September and October is magical....
Houghton, MI – Last Saturday, the Michigan Tech Nordic Skiing teams set out on an epic adventure through the north woods of the Upper Peninsula. The goal was simple, a distance run on the North Country Trail to the raging torrent that is the falls on the Sturgeon River. The peaking fall colors and the scenic Sturgeon River Gorge drew the Huskies more than 30 miles from their home in Houghton, MI, the site of...
Three Right To Play teams participated in this year’s Gigathlon, a grueling seven-day, 1’400 km and 30’000-meters-of-altitude adventure race across Switzerland, raising funds for Right To Play’s project in Sierra Leone. What is more, skiers were well-represented on the Right To Play teams: Along with Hippolyt Kempf, Olympic gold medalist in Nordic Combined, Matthias Remund, Director General of the Swiss Federal Office of Sports and past member of FIS Cross-Country Committee, coach and former skier,...
Feeling a bit down? Is mud season causing you anxiety? Did you miss the big event at the Skarverennet AGAIN this year? Well for those that can't quite seem to get excited about the idea of climbing aboard the torture rack otherwise known as your road bike, there's still hope. Dachstein Glacier you ask? Ah Nein ! The Snowfarm maybe? noo…. It's just the good old Uinta's up on Wolf Creek Pass located 40 minutes...
Astronauts heading to the Moon should learn the art of cross-country skiing, a scientist who flew on the last lunar Apollo mission claims. Harrison Schmitt, part of the 1972 Apollo 17 crew, said it would allow them to explore faster and more easily. Addressing scientists in San Francisco, he said his knowledge of Nordic skiing had allowed him to glide effortlessly across the dusty lunar surface. Read full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6373383.stm
Winters are hard & long up by Strawberry Reservoir located 30 minutes from Heber City, Utah — the home of cross country skiing at the 2002 Olympics. Sunday morning dawned a breezy 10 Fahrenheit up on the ridgeline. It is a place where snowmobilers and xc skiers peacefully coexist on endless trails that are groomed frequently at no charge to its users. Heaven? Well no it's just Utah in winter. Sunday mornings are best to...
Mystery Alaska? Pretty close. Not everyone attends West Yellowstone in the fall. Up in Anchorage, Alaska, many skiers did not travel to Montana on Thanksgiving weekend. And even though there is skiable snow on the ground in Anchorage, many didn't ski at all. Instead, they took advantage of prime ice skating conditions created by a recent cold snap. On Thanksgiving morning a large group of skiers played hockey on Portage Lake, in front of the...
Andre Watt, Adam Swank, Nikolai Anikin, and non-racing friend Jason Wall have completed our month long bike trip around Europe. It was a great trip. Road biking around Europe is the best. You have a virtually unlimited selection of bike friendly roads to choose from. You can climb all the mountains you want on low traffic roads. The cars don't drive very fast and are considerate of bikers. Additionally, all the cars are tiny. They...
By Park City, Utah junior Nordic team/NSF coach Gordon Lange The Park City Nordic Ski Team has just finished up five days of backpacking, running and climbing in the Wind Rivers of Wyoming. We were able to bag a couple peaks, get in an eighteen-mile run, and cover about 50 miles of trail and 20,000 vertical feet. Participating in the camp were Rosie Brennan, Kirsten Stray Gundersen, Alexis Sumsion, Elizabeth Guiney, Nick Hendrickson, Andrew and...
Expedition gives new meaning to the term cross country By TERRY SMITH Express Staff Writer Taking cross-country skiers on a summer backpacking trip seemed like a good idea to Rick Kapala, so he organized 16 members of his junior ski team into an expedition and took them on a 110-mile jaunt across the Frank Church Wilderness. Ten days later, with sore feet, increased physical and mental endurance, a new admiration for the Idaho wilderness and...
The bike, running and rollerski season is already in full motion however some Utah XC enthusiasts are still skiing. With a lot of snow up at high altitude the skiing is still great in the Utah Mountains! Low night temperatures and an inch of fresh snow over night on top of the crust made for great skiing on May 6 when we (Lauri Humbert, Dave Knoop and Meiko Hoemke) skied from Guardsman Pass above Park...