General

Thank you for a great season. The Youth Program Coaches have setup a little end of season adventure game. It is designed for you and your family and friends to participate. Maps are available in the chalet to help guide your adventure. Click here for a copy for your own.

Objective: visit the stations and collect points (indicated in the circles 2, 4, 6 & 8). Collect a sticker or two from the envelop at each location.

Take your family or take your friends. Enjoy

Team Telemark achieved its goal of placing in the top 10 Team Aggregate category at Ski Nationals in Thunder Bay! After a grueling week of competition, Telemark placed 8th overall and was the top team from BC. This is Telemark’ s best result ever at Ski Nationals. Congratulations to our athletes (Sally Haaheim, Jenna Sim, Clair Littlefair, Hannah Mehain, Thomas Hardy, Gareth Williams, Alex MacDonald, David Walker, Tallon Noble, Phillip-Maynard Davies, Ian Williams, Cole Turner, Tristan Lee, Grayson McKinnon, Colton Blaney, Connor Hobbs, Gregor Graham, Ian Mayer.); our expert wax technicians (Aiden Oliphant, Chris Hamilton, Coach Adam); Jill Stamp and James Williams (for managing travel, accommodations, meals and driving the team van back to Kelowna in celebration of their 24th wedding anniversary!); Alistair Graham for driving the van all the way to Lappe Nordic; Jeff Sim and Brent Hobbs for chauffeuring/wax tech support; and to our expert coach, Adam Elliot. Special acknowledgment to Telemark Nordic and Kelowna Toyota for their generous financial contributions to support our athletes at Ski Nationals.

The following Telemark skiers were awarded top ten aggregate awards:
Juvenile Boys (2003) Gregor Graham (3rd) and Ian Mayer (6th)
Juvenile Boys (2002) Connor Hobbs (8th)
Junior Boys (2001) Cole Turner (3rd)
Junior Boys (2000) Ian Williams (4th)
Junior Women (1999) Jenna Sim (5th)
Junior Men (1999) Tallon Noble (5th)
Junior Women (1998) Hannah Mehain (3rd)
U23 Men Gareth Williams (4th) and Thomas Hardy (6th)

Over the next week “Daughter  of the Wolf” will be filming in the night, on the Telemark property. If you see a wolf it is one of fourteen wolves that are being used during filming at our club. The filming will also have  handlers and actors on the property.

The season ending spring banquet is coming soon. It was a successful season, and there is plenty of good news. We are looking forward to thanking this season’s 170 volunteers, and 20 staff members, for pulling in the same direction. If you volunteered during the 2017-2019 season please contact your department head, or event manager for an invitation to the banquet. Tickets are available at the door, We look forward to seeing your there. Thank-you!

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4 AT 5:30 PM
West Kelowna Yacht Club
4111 Gellatly Road
West Kelowna, BC

HOST: Lanita Platt 250-878-4006

There will be a biathlon demonstration day and public race at the Telemark Biathlon Range this Sunday. Everyone welcome! It’s a great way to try out this exciting Olympic sport. Bring yourself, your friends, family – it will be a lot of fun! For details, please click here.

Tonight will be the last night that the office will be open for night skiing. The lights will be left on until further notice and the washrooms will be open. Rental equipment will not be available in the evenings after tonight.

The Telemark Nordic Club would like to thank the  volunteers, parents, spectators, staff, members, first aid team, race committee and competitors for making this weekend’s event a big success. It was great to see athletes from the USA competing, as well as our very own Telemark Biathlon Team. We will see you again next year! Click here for a Global News article about the competition.

Our club is growing. In an effort to manage our growth, your Board of Directors is exploring options to expand our chalet and remodel the buildings in the vicinity of the stadium. Telemark members are invited to participate in the project. We are looking for your ideas and suggestions on the following topics:

1) Chalet Expansion

• How can we expand our building to accommodate the needs of our growing membership (e.g. wax room, rentals, eating area)?

2) Site Plan (stadium area)

• We currently have several external buildings (e.g. washrooms, storage shed, Quonset hut) on site. Are they meeting the needs of the club? Are we missing anything?

3) Fundraising

• The size and scope of the project will be determined by available fundraising resources. Please share your ideas on how we can generate financial capital for the project.

Action: we encourage you to write your ideas on the Ideas Board that is posted in the chalet. The poster board will remain up until the end of the season. The Telemark Executive will collate your ideas in the off-season and present options to the membership at the Annual General Meeting in October.

Questions? Please contact Brent Hobbs brent_hobbs@telus.net