going nordic = going ghay?

[BCMtnHound]

Marshalling for the local Birchleg loppet. Fresh corduroy and a clear skies made for a fantastic run up to my station.

[sb]

Nice!

[BCMtnHound]

Ullr has been kind with the steady refreshes of late. 10k silent running by headlamp. This trail visitor made a u-turn not long before my arrival. Great grey was hooting up a storm shortly before.



With the spooky snowpack in the alpine, the XC trails have been a godsend this season.

[buttahflake]

Still holding on back east, winter refresh starts tomorrow! I was back up at Green Woodlands today, Bob Green purchased a new Piston Bully 100 with a brand new tiller, it was incredible today. It still blows my mind that it’s all free, I stopped at two of the fire pits today for s’mores w/ fancy designer marshmallows, I went with the Irish cream flavor, and organic Hersheys on graham crackers and a hot cocoa. Place is truly special
Only grabbed one crappy pic, skied about 33K. I’m smoked!

[BCMtnHound]

Groomer has been having trouble keeping up with the new snow.


Another 30+cm forecast over the next 24hr. Freestyle will be a bust this weekend, time to go meadowskipping with the metal edged alpinas. We’ll see how the groomed trails are for the kid’s jackrabbits on Sun afternoon.

Very temped to play hooky on Mon or Tues and hit the BC.

[plugboots]

First tracks with the ladies.

[buttahflake]

That looks mint!
We are finally in a good stretch of actual winter. Today was a bit soft, but it’s just what we needed. More snow coming. First Alpine day of the season might happen tomorrow!

[ey_allen]

More from me. It has been a busy few weeks but still managing to get some mornings in when I can.

[Peruvian]

Jessie took gold in the 10k at the world championships this morning!

And Ben making sure it’s not all serious on the WC tour while repping his home state.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpLc8...d=N2Q2MGM2OGQ=

[new yabyum]

Jessie Diggens took the gold in the 10 K this AM. See Peruvian's
post above!!

[buttahflake]

Huge day for Nordic skiing in the USA!

[WhetherMan]

Finally subscribed to ski and snowboard live so I could watch some races.

Anyone else ski the Birkie? A bunch of folks in our crew bailed, expecting terrible weather and a slow track. I almost did after my original flight was blizzard cancelled, but very happy I didn't. Turned out to be an absolutely lovely day for a skate. Wish I had pictures to share, but I was too busy wrecking myself

[BCMtnHound]

Anyone else ski the Birkie? A bunch of folks in our crew bailed, expecting terrible weather and a slow track. I almost did after my original flight was blizzard cancelled, but very happy I didn't. Turned out to be an absolutely lovely day for a skate. Wish I had pictures to share, but I was too busy wrecking myself

I haven’t attended the Edmonton Birkie since the mid ‘90’s but would like to participate one day again. I just looked up their website and discovered I could have entered the virtual birkie and completed it here (or anywhere I guess). Will consider doing that next year. https://canadianbirkie.com/virtual-birkie/

Was a trail marshall for our own little Birchleg loppet. Small turnout this year, which is both sad, but more Swedish meatballs for me! The average age of attendees is rising, which is a shame. The conditions were fantastic however!

[dcpnz]

Was at Planica in Slovenia a couple of weeks ago and stumbled into all the world championships setup. Cool area and neat to see and ski into the stadium finish with grandstands surrounding.
Inspired to post after Jesse Diggins win today

[ey_allen]

Those pics are amazing.

I snuck out this morning to climb some hills and take advantage of clear weather. It was much warmer and slower than I anticipated, but still worth it.

[ex-powderbroker]

pow day on skinnies!

[MarsB]

The GC down the street has maintained a nice track all winter long and has been great for after work laps.

[buttahflake]

From today in central Vermont, skied a little over two hours, nice to have some snow stacking up.

[plugboots]

Did a new-to-me area today. They only groom three times a week or something. So what.

[MarsB]

Made it out for a full moon ski on Friday hosted by out local Nordic group. Fresh snow covered the track and kind of stymied the skaters, but had great weather for kicking and gliding under the stars.

[BCMtnHound]

Did a new-to-me area today. They only groom three times a week or something. So what.

Ha! Our little club is non-profit and volunteer/donations driven for operations stuff. Grooming happens after a storm, or once a week before the kids jackrabbits lessons. The past couple of dumps have challenged the groomer due to depth of snow, and with only a couple passes, the top grooming is underlain with an air pocket. My wife is supported on the grooming, but my 100kg fat ass is at regular risk of punching through with the skate skis and doing the dreaded pivot face plant. Poling with my wee skate pole ‘baskets’ is almost ineffective if I don’t hit the snow compacted by the groomer tracks perfectly. Fun times if I want to forego the classic setup.

MarsB, love the moonlit runs (except for the above). Hope to get out under this week’s moon with the weather cooperating so nicely.

[Blaster]

Just saying. You all should go ski Yosemite-badger pass-glacier point sometime.


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[buttahflake]

Wow, I had no idea that was a thing, is there a Nordic center there?
A couple from today, the stuff that got groomed early had a skim-coat of fresh. We are about a week out from the end of our season last year, we will be skiing in April this year!

[~mikey b]

the grooming at Badger Pass is not consistent but it’s an awesome place to ski

my buddy is the hut keeper at Ostrander

[buttahflake]

Looks incredible