Classic Track: Yes
The ski trails were groomed for skate and classic by Nick and Travis this evening. The snow is still looking good.
Month: January 2023
Chuck Calef Classic – Big Day of Fun (and a little bit of suffering ;-)
Results from the day’s effort. What a great group out there today!
| Name | Time |
| Kyle | 26:54:00 |
| Laura | 29:12:00 |
| Logan | 29:45:00 |
| Clay | 30:19:00 |
| Travis | 30:32:00 |
| Zach L. | 30:43:00 |
| Levi | 31:13:00 |
| Mila | 31:47:00 |
| Diego | 31:53:00 |
| Zach G. | 33:13:00 |
| Adis | 33:54:00 |
| Quanah | 33:58:00 |
| Sanna | 34:00:00 |
| Lukas | 36:20:00 |
| Kevin | 37:25:00 |
| Ajla | 37:46:00 |
| Tarik | 37:48:00 |
| Harper | 38:07:00 |
| Luke | 39:09:00 |
| Nick | 39:10:00 |
| Phoebe | 39:33:00 |
| Oli | 40:21:00 |
| Siobhan | 40:57:00 |
| Lynn | 41:23:00 |
| Jasmina | 41:40:00 |
| Lindsay | 48:39:00 |
| Ana | 49:59:00 |
| Sarah | 51:23:00 |
| Jan | 52:16:00 |
| Katya | 59:00:00 |
Grooming Report for 2023/01/28
Classic Track: Yes
Groomed three laps at the meadow and two laps on the lower road and upper trails.
Grooming Report for 2023/01/27
Classic Track: Yes
Trails were groomed for classic skiing only tomorrow. We’re hosting our annual Chuck Calef Classic fun race and “open track tour” (you don’t have to race it to have fun and celebrate Chuck). The open track tour is simply that – just come and ski the amazing conditions… wooden skis and old-school wool sweaters highly encouraged!
Chuck Calef Classic this Sat Jan 28th on our trails!
Hi all!
We have a ski event celebrating our long time friend, club supporter/volunteer and an avid classic skier Chuck Calef this Sat Jan 28th:
The Chuck Calef Classic!
The trail will be groomed with best line classic tracks making it even more fun to classic (but really not fun to skate, so please save the skating for another day)! In classic Chuck style, wear your best nordic sweater, a big kind smile and if you got one a big bushy beard! The event is free to all.
The course will be an approximately 8 km loop on our trails and we will send skiers off 1 min apart with first skier off at 9:30 am from point B. Please plan to be at point B to get your name on the order list no later than 9:15 am and plan accordingly to be able to have your skis ready, warm up and arrive at point B by 9:15 am.
Grooming Report for 2023/01/25
Classic Track: No
Groomed the full meadow trail. Trails are looking very smooth right now.
In Full Swing
The snow gods have finally blessed our area with some of the Pacific stream of storms that seemingly everyone else in the West have been getting. We were missing out until early January, but now we’re looking pretty good. Groomers have been staying on top of things and will continue making improvements as we hopefully continue to get more snow (check the FB page for condition updates). Lots of happy skiers out there! There are also other places to go ski around the Jemez, such as the Valles Caldera, the Bandelier ski trails (just before the Caldera), lots of the old roads, and of course, San Antonio hot springs. Check out the picks of the Gibson family, who led a group out there recently!
Soldier Hollow Super Qualifier
Go Southwest Nordic Ski Club! The kids had some great races here at the Soldier Hollow Super Qualifier (Midway, UT). There were huge fields, resulting in some equally daunting nerves to overcome. That was our main reason to travel so far for two days of racing — time to face reality. It went really well and I think a lot was learned. Poor Quanah just missed a podium in a tight finish. Check out Mila’s U16 (girls 14-15 yrs old) field! She really had to sink or swim quickly!
Ski Clinic Update
We had some dedicated kids, parents and adults come out for the clinics in the Sunday snow storm (and some valiantly tried driving without and then with chains before giving up with a car full of our awesome little skiers)! I didn’t get a lot of photos but it was a lot of fun with even a one-ski soccer game at the end! Huge thanks to coach Kyle for his help with everything!
Definitely good winter tires needed and ideally 4WD for coming up there this week, although FWD worked well as long as you had good winter tires from what we saw.
Finally! (seems like a recurring theme…)
We are FINALLY skiing! We got a healthy dump of some very good-quality snow that has done a good job of covering the trails. It’s still thin in the usual “big rock” locations, but if you’re careful and know where they lurk, you can miss them. Be especially careful on the section of trail between “TJ’s” and “Dave’s Dogleg” (between point G and H on the map), and the screamer downhill toward the bottom of the meadow, just above point M on the map.
Hopefully, we won’t have to wait so long before we get another good dump, but with some reasonable January temperatures, it should be pretty nice.
