This weekend I traveled to Middlebury, Vermont, with some of my XC Ottawa teammates to race at the NENSA Eastern Cup Opener. Rikert Nordic Center, which borders the Green Mountain National Forest, hosted the event on the fairly new Tormondsen 5km racing course certified to FIS standards. One loop around the course and I recognized many similarities to […]
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Silver Star!
I just got back from a week of cross country skiing at Silver Star Mountain Resort in south-central BC, and confirm (once again!) that this is the best cross-country ski holiday possible. At this time of year, most skiers are scrambling for snow, and Silver Star has plenty of it! And with over 100 km of […]
Foret Montmorency Training Camp
I spent this past weekend with XC Ottawa at our traditional “on snow’ camp at Universite Laval’s Foret Montmorency, a forestry station and outdoor education center located about 1 hour north of Quebec City. La Foret staff guarantee at least a 2km loop, thanks to snowmaking and snow preservation (they stocked 6,000 m of last year’s snow […]
First Tracks in the Gatineau Park
The first ski of the year is always very exciting. Typically the conditions are not optimal, but that usually doesn’t matter – skiing on any kind of snow at this time is fun. This morning I went out with a few of my XC Ottawa teammates and we were more than pleasantly surprised – not […]