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Near perfect conditions and a record 248 racers from 3 years old to 80 years old took on the Telemark trails today.  And we had a sweep with both the fastest male and fastest female.

Fastest Female, Telemark’s Julia Ransom completed the 30 KM skathlon in 1:29:37.  Julia also won the hill climb in 3 minutes 31 seconds and ALSO the downhill challenge in 5 minutes 58 seconds.

Fastest Male, also from the Telemark club, Ian Williams was fastest male with a finish time of 1:16:45.  Ian also won the hill climb in 2 minutes 48 seconds and ALSO won the downhill challenge in 5 minutes 21 seconds.

Congratulations Julia and Ian.  Complete results are available on Zone 4.

Photo credit Olaf Dijkstra.

Volunteers Needed

Our beloved Apple Loppet XC ski race is on again this year next Sunday, Jan. 13.  If you are not racing, please come out and help us make this a memorable event for the more than 100 kids as young as 3 years old and of course all of the older athletes who come to race.  We need people for course setup, aid/nutrition stations, timing, course marshallers, food and snack stations, and parking lot.   Chose your preference — keep warm inside or be right in the middle of the action with the racers.  No experience necessary.  Click here for signup form or directly contact our volunteer coordinator Alison by email at volunteer@telemarknordic.com.

Request for Baking Donations

We are accepting donations of baked items and fresh fruit for the Apple Loppet next Sunday.  Cookies, squares, muffins, what have you.  Items can be dropped off at the lodge Saturday all day or Sunday morning.  Please email Alison at volunteer@telemarknordic.com if you have questions or if you want someone to pick up your goodies.

Thank you for volunteering.

Great Food, Rocking Tunes, age-appropriate prizes
30 km relay or skiathalon
Recreational, Youth and Special Olympic Categories
“Monarch of the Mountain” timed hill climb
“Kamikaz-(s)he Run” timed downhill challenge
Claim bragging rights for your hill climbing stamina and tuck technique
Youth and Recreational categories are classic technique:
3 & 4 year old Bunnies – 200 metres
7 & under age 1km
8-11 age 3km
12-15 age 6km (2 x 3km)
16-17 age 7.5km
Recreational is all ages and 7.5km
Special Olympics 3km

Special Olympics Snowshoe – this will be run separate to the loppet in the afternoon. There are 2 distances – 50 and 100 metres.

Skiathlon is 30km (classic & free technique) and offers 10 year age categories starting at 18 years of age.

Click here to register.

The 2018 season pass / membership drive is a wrap.  Congratulations to our prize pac winners:
– Christine Haessig
– Brad Beaudreau
– Vlasta Liptak
– Beth Wood
– Jeff Sherstobitoff
– Barry Dennison
– Grayson (Alice) Semancik

We hope you and your families enjoy the awesome prizes, and thanks to our sponsors who helped up put together this year’s prize pacs:

• Fresh Air Experience (skis, snowshoes, trainer smart watch, gift certificate)
• The Cove Lakeside Resort (exotic weekend for 2)
• Waterfront Wines Retaurant (exotic dining experience)
• Kelowna Toyota, our Premier Official Title Sponsor
  for Team Telemark (car detailing)

Regretfully we did not prevail in the CCBC Membership Contest this year.  Our congratulations go out to Sovereign Lake for their masterful execution for the second year in a row.  Well done.  We know how hard you worked to achieve this.  The final results in the CCBC contest:

The lodge is staffed regular business hours now, so you are welcome to drop in any time to meet Mike and Teresa and pick up your season pass.

For those of you young skiers who are working on the lagamorph challenge, we have a hint.  Neither jack rabbits nor bunny rabbits are particularly famous, and we asked for the name of one famous lagamorph, not the name of a type of lagamorph.

Enjoy!

December has arrived and there is a dusting of snow on the peaks in the valley.  I can almost feel the excitement and anticipation.  My skis are in the garage, storage wax scrapped off.  Mike says “conditions permitting, we are ready for a December 15 opening.  We just need one more good snow dump”.   JP Squire wrote a nice article in the Capital News — if you missed it, click here for the article.

According to Deren, “if the snow cooperates, jackrabbits, bunnyrabbits, and adventurers programs will start on December 15.  We sent an information sheet out to all those registered.  If you did not receive, please drop a note to our program coordinator Michelle.

Futher, Deren says “the jackrabbit program is waitlisted, but I will ensure your child gets a spot if you volunteer to help us run the program. You can look forward to 2 hours of fun in the snow with your child and their friends every Saturday morning. You don’t even have to put on skis.”  There are still a few openings in bunnyrabbits.

Today (Saturday, Dec 1) is the last day to purchase your season pass and have it count towards Telemark’s quest for bragging rights in the 2018 CCBC membership contest.  You will also be entered in Telemark’s  6th and final Prize Pac draw for club members.  Thank you to all the new-and-returning members who helped put Telemark in a dead heat vs Sovereign Lake and Caledonia clubs.  Go Telemark!

Hoping to see you on the snow in 2 weeks

On Saturday, 3 November 2018 Telemark Nordic Club in West Kelowna is proud to offer the public an opportunity to experience the thrill of Biathlon shooting. Come try your hand at shooting under the supervision of our coaching staff on a certified Biathlon range.

Schedule

• 1200 -1300: Complete forms at range and pay.
• 1215 -1300: Complete safety briefing. Sessions every 15 minutes.
• 1220-1400: Complete two bouts of shooting 2 magazines each time!

Smokies and buns available for purchase. Prizes and Wrap up!

Cost
$15 range fee – cash only please (minimum age to shoot is 8 years old)

Point of Contact
Murray Carlson 250-808-4511

Isn’t that beautiful?  And it comes a mere 18 hours before early bird pricing ends.  Coincidence?  Not likely!