Kongsberger Ski Club

It's January, and the Gunnar Hagen classic ski race, the first Cabin Creek Nordic ski race of the season, is on the calendar! Sponsored and managed by Kongsberger Ski Club and open and welcoming to all skiers, as always, the race will be on Sunday, January 12. If you're a racer, here is what you need to know: *   classic technique only; race distances 30k, 10k (for para nordic), and 7.5k *   registration through Webscorer is open now, on the KSC website ( www.kongsbergers.org ); early registration closes at 11:59 pm Pacific on January 9; late registration, with an extra $30 fee, closes at 11:59 pm Pacific on January 10; absolutely no day-of registration, nada, zero, zilch, so don't come crying to the race timers that the dog ate your registration *   all the other details you need to know are on the KSC website If you're not a racer, here is what you need to know: *   the upper and lower parking lots will be jammed pack full from early on race morning to probably ea...

What's that all about? You've probably seen Kongsbergers using the snowmobile on race weekends to set up and take down the course, place trail markers at intersections, and bring supplies out to the feed station. But maybe you've noticed them also on non-race weekends and wondered what's going on. Kongsberger has a dedicated year-round volunteer trail work crew that has been trained in safely operating the snowmobile (no joy-riding going on here!) and they will take the snowmobile out as needed to ferry equipment to remove down and leaning trees, thus saving the groomer's grooming budget for actual grooming instead of logging, to put up signs along the trails, to bring supplies up to maintain the warming hut on Amabilis [correction: we don't snowmobile supplies to the warming hut; Nick and his crew take care of that when it's needed] , and to clear out potential flooding spots along the trail. They generally pull the track sled behind them, both to carry equ...