Come out and play!
Fresh snow, perfect temperatures and BBQ hot dogs. It doesn’t get any better!
Join us for a great day of XC skiing and snowshoeing at Telemark and bring your appetite for our Race Team BBQ Fundraiser – Hot dog and a juice for only $5 starting at 11:30am and going until the hot dogs are gone.
We will be hosting a BBQ each Saturday in February.
See you there!
Please join us for Thursday evenings filled with friends, fun and cross-country skiing followed by an aprés-ski BYO social in the Telemark lodge – Meet at 6:00pm every Thursday. Feel free to bring classic or skate skis, guests, a sense of adventure and snacks for afterwards! Hope to see you there!
You may have noticed a silver dog-bone-shaped sticker on the back of your season pass this year. It is an RFID tag in support of a pilot project we are running at Telemark this year. It allows us to automatically detect when a season pass moves past the lodge, permitting us to gather anonymous visit statistics. We don’t know specifically who the tag belongs to — we will NEVER track people at Telemark without your permission! But we can tell when “someone” arrives and how long they stay on the property each time that “someone” visits. From this data we can compile, for example:
This is just a pilot project, to see what we can learn that will help us manage and improve the club. Some thoughts about how the club might benefit:
But we really have no idea what we might discover. To our knowledge, this is the first time this technology has been deployed in a Nordic club in North America. (If you know of others, please drop us a note because we would love to chat with them!)
Thanks to the 2 Engineering / Computer Science UBC recent grads who donated their time to design and write the software for this project. The equipment was provided on loan from Canmore-based Zone 4. The RFID expertise was provided by Dallas-based Codesource LLC.
“Loppet”is a Swedish word that means citizens ski event….a competition for everyone no matter what your level.
“Never done a Loppet before? Come join the fun. The full Loppet is a Skiathlon (both Classic and Skate) but we also have shorter courses and a recreational category in classic technique just for you. It is a 7.5 km course on Telemark and Rabbit. If you can ski the full Telemark trail, the recreational race course will be a piece of cake for you.” Great food, prizes and lots of fun! Registration is open until 11:59pm Jan 10th. for more infor please go to our “Calendar of Events” Webpage
For those of you who are not doing the Apple Loppet, Telemark is open to the public. Please be aware that there will be some restrictions on some trails during the event. Loppet time is 10am to 1pm.
The Telemark Nordic Club would like to welcome Red Moose Immigration Services as a Club sponsor.
Nicole and Robert Kleemaier of Red Moose Immigration Services in Kelowna are avid cross-country skiers and have been long time, active Telemark members. They wanted to give something back to the Club and so have become our newest sponsor. You may have seen their banner at the lodge as the backdrop for our season pass photos this year. You will definitely see Nicole and Robert around the trails in their distinctive Red Moose outfits.
Red Moose supports foreign nationals in their efforts to get a visitor visa, study permit, work permit or permanent resident permit. They also help employers who want to hire those individuals. If you need these kinds of services please think of Nicole and Robert and Red Moose Immigration Services.
If you are interested in sponsoring the Telemark Nordic Club please contact us. Sponsorship Pkg