Kongsberger Ski Club

The 2025 race schedule at Cabin Creek is set! See below for the official schedule from Chief of Timing Augustina Harkestad: Skiers, mark your calendars, dust off your skis, and cross your fingers for snow! The 2025 ski season is coming up, and Kongsberger Ski Club will be hosting the following ski races:   January 12, 2025  Gunnar Hagen: 7.5K and 30K classic technique with interval starts Race Director is Spider Burbank   February 16, 2025  Stampede: 5K and 15K freestyle with interval mass starts Race Director is Grant Goheen   March 2, 2025  Per Johnsen Memorial Ozbaldy: 10K and 50K freestyle with mass starts Race Director is Jeff Hashimoto   There will be more info posted (including start times) on the club's site, later this autumn.  kongsbergers.org

On Trail Work Day, while adults were scattered all over Amabilis and the Road working on various projects, Joy gathered a posse of kids and parents, along with the Momentum coaches, and set them to work on specific tasks along the Berg and Viking loops. Here is her fun story of how the day came out: KIDS TRAIL WORK AWESOMENESS, OR SKI TRAILS MAINTENANCE 101 by Joy Cordell Holy Cow! So we had 4 kids signed up to work on teams with our volunteer coaches from  Momentum, Tom and Stacey, and  Frank gave us some tasks, but then some parents said they wanted to work with us and more kids with parents showed up and when I looked around almost everyone was bigger than me and I said GRAB THE PULASKIS, we're gonna attack that ATV damage on the trails!!!   So we headed down the Berg but noticed water puddles so then we discussed water management A LA WTA and fixed those handily by digging little channels and filling in the puddles, and of course we had already talked about tool ...

Trimmin' and loppin' and cuttin' and choppin'; we've had a number of informal trail work gatherings at Cabin Creek all summer, but today was the official Trail Work Day, and we had a good strong turnout of long-time members, newer members, aspiring members, a cadre of kids, including our awesome Trash-Collecting Twins, and people who had heard about the club and were interested in learning more. Thank you, everyone who showed up on this fresh damp gray day to admire the vibrant fall colors and participate in the Trail Work Olympics: javelin throwing and goblet squatting and medicine ball tossing and dead lifting and all the other things I don't know the name for! What a gorgeous day to be on the trails, out in the fresh air, working your muscles alongside your new and old friends and dreaming of the La Nina winter that's just around the corner. (Photo courtesy of Joy Cordell) And some more scenery pictures, because I couldn't decide which one I liked bes...