Kongsberger Ski Club

(view from Elephant Rock) Report and Photos by Joy Cordell   If you ski a mile or so up the Lost Lake snowmobile road and take a right on a residential road, you'll soon find a faded State Parks sign with a nordic skier illustration and the name High Horse Trail. Like me, you may wonder when this trail was built, why it never comes up in discussion, and why it isn't groomed.   (Tim at the south entrance of the High Horse trail) This trail is included on Forest Service maps, thanks to Tim (of Snoqualmie Nordic Club), but only a few know about it. Running parallel to the P2C trail, it lies above the P2C, winding through forest and hills.  Initially, Don explored it as a potential trail years ago and marked it with Todd and John. Todd, who was "the Forest Service guy" at the time, was very enthusiastic. But then he retired.   Checking it out   After Tim took Jeff and me to the entrance of the trail a few weeks ago, we decided we needed to try the rest of the trail,...

Many thanks to Rob Corkran for this awesome report from last week's World Masters in Canmore and the photos! *** Canmore is one of the more spectacular settings for any ski race. Situated several hundred feet above the valley floor on which the town is located, a row of castellated peaks looms directly above the sprawling stadiums. The stadium complex is subject to storm winds, but the trails are primarily in protected forest, with the exception of one area of meadow. Though much of the forest consists of trees of maybe 100 feet in height, few parts of the trail come without a view... either straight up at the peaks towering over you or straight ahead of you as the trails tend to be aligned in the same north-south direction as the peaks. There were three competition trails cobbled together from the myriad of trails in the provincial park, each overlapping in spots, ones of 5,10 and 15 kilometers all beautifully undulating. They were all on intermediate level trails. My wife, Suzann...