Lapland Lake to host open house

Lapland Lake Nordic Vacation Center, located in the south-central Adirondack Mountains of New York, will host its two-day annual open house and sale, Friday and Saturday, November 28 and 29 from 9:00 am-4:30 pm. Visitors are invited to tour the Finnish-style four-season vacation center which is celebrating its 31st winter season!

The open house features two-for-one facility use passes for cross country skiing, snowshoeing, tubing and ice-skating. If there is no snow, guests are welcome to enjoy complimentary hiking on the resort’s 50km private trail system.

Door prizes include facility use passes, lessons, rentals and “Ski Like A Finn” lesson packages (including trail pass, rentals and group ski lesson). The grand prize is a two-night, three-day stay in one of the resort’s tupas (cozy housekeeping cottages) during the upcoming winter season. The lodging package, which is valid non-holiday midweek nights) includes use of ski and snowshoe trails, ice-skating pond, tubing hills, 50 percent off a group lesson per person, and use of the Finnish wood-burning sauna.

Select cross country ski equipment, ski packages, clothing and accessories will be offered at discounted prices. Lapland Lake’s owner-operator, former U.S. Olympian Olavi Hirvonen, and his carefully trained staff will offer assistance in proper equipment selection and sizing.

Free beverages and cookies will be available at the resort’s welcoming Tuulen Tupa Grill. Lunch selections will also be offered for sale.

Season pass memberships will be available at normally reduced early-season rates; regular season pass rates go into effect Monday, December 1.

The resort’s two domesticated reindeer, Viima and Talvi, will welcome visitors at their lakeside home.

A complete cross country ski and snowshoe facility, Lapland Lake offers fully equipped rental and retail shops, a comfortable warming lodge with snack bar, a trailside restaurant and overnight accommodations in private housekeeping cottages. The trail system has 50km of trails for all ability levels. Other activities include ice-skating, tubing, sledding, kicksledding and wilderness ski touring.

Lapland Lake is just over an hour’s drive from Schenectady; 60 miles from Albany and Utica; and four hours from New York City and Boston. Visit www.laplandlake.com or call (518) 863-4974.

The New Look NYSSRA Website is now up!

NYSSRA Nordic, Inc. has launched its new-look website at www.nyssranordic.com .  This website should serve as a hub for the nordic disciplines and a central location for NYSSRA’s member clubs to convey information.   Our second VP, Dave Kvam has teamed up with XC Committee Chair, Larry Wilkinson to manage the website, and they are always looking for ideas on how to best serve the membership while still keeping the site streamlined.   One feature of the new site is a commitment to blogging as a way to get timely news to our membership.  Currently there are blogs maintained by XC, Ski-O, Biathlon, the Points Series and by some of our members and member clubs.  NYSSRA wants you to contribute.  If you are a club leader, use our site to get your information out to our entire membership.  If you are a ski racer with an interesting story, share it with us.  Set up a blog and contact me (perunordic@yahoo.com).  Or contact me and I will help you set one up.  Be a part  of the NYSSRA story.

Jim Kobak (President, NYSSRA Nordic)

NYSSRA/Osceola Announces Early Winter Jubilee

NYSSRA Nordic and Osceola X-C Ski Center

Announce

An

Early Winter Jubilee!

 

Why a Jubilee: Start the 2008-9 season off to a great start…Celebrate snow, skiing, waxing, looking for controls, shooting clean….and most of all rekindle old relationships and make new ones with fellow skiers!

 

What will the Jubilee consist of: All NYSSRA Nordic members will receive 10% off of all purchases. An additional 10% from each purchase will be donated to NYSSRA Nordic’s coach’s fund to help NYSSRA Nordic meet its mission of promoting the Nordic Sports in NY

          -SWIX wax technician will be on hand to demonstrate the latest       waxing supplies     and techniques

          - There will be X-C, Orienteering and Biathlon demonstration,

          -Ability to preview NYSSRA Nordic and all X-C, Orienteering and Biathlon           events for the ‘07 – ’08 NYSSRA Nordic season

                     

When: December 14, 2008, 10 AM to 4 PM

 

Where: Osceola X-C Center, Osceola, NY

 

Entry Fee: $16 – day pass and lunch at the Osceola Congregational Church

 

50/50 raffle to benefit NYSSRA Nordic Coaches Fund ($1/ticket, $5 for 8, $10 for arm length) – must be present to win, drawing at lunch

 

Lunch provided by Osceola Congregational Church…included in day fee

 

Reservations encouraged (for wax clinic, sports & lunch): Contact Russ Myer, Central Region Representative @ 315-396-9967 or 518-729-3780, rmyer@nycap.rr.com OR Hugh Quinn @ 315-599-7377, http://www.uxcski.com/  before 11/30/07

 

 

See you there!!!!!

NYSEF Hosts Fantastic Whiteface Hillclimb

Start of the Women's Race NYSEF Climb to the Castle 08

Margaret and NYSEF host another great event

October 6- NYSEF Nordic hosted the USA’s best Nordic Skiers during the annual “Climb to the Castle” race.  Defending NYSSRA Champion, Duncan Douglas won the event, besting US Ski Team star, Kris Freeman.  Other USST notables, like Andy Newell, Garrot Kuzzy and Torin Koos also took part. 

NYSSRA member Joe Korzenecki hammers out the hillclimb

 Likewise, a bunch of NYSSRA members also skied in the race, including members of NYSEF and Peru Nordic.  The race start was bumped back and moved down towards Wilmington to accomodate the snow and ice collecting on the tollroad above 3500′.  The fantastic Adirondack foliage was a real treat for the racers, and a nice awards ceremony followed the event at the Olympic Training Center.  NYSSRA thanks Margaret Maher and Matt Cook of NYSEF for putting on another spectacular event.  They announced that this race will return to the calendar next season and will be moved back to a weekend.  Results are available at http://nysefnordic.wordpress.com

NYSSRA and NENSA reach membership agreement

Another benefit has been added to your NYSSRA membership.  All NYSSRA members will also be considered full members of NENSA (New England Nordic Ski Association).  This means that NYSSRA members will be able to ski in NENSA races without paying extra non-member fees.  NYSSRA members will be eligible for NENSA Eastern Cup points series races.  And, this season, NENSA is hosting a SuperTour event in Rumford, Maine.  Hopefully many NYSSRA members will take advantage of this benefit and go tangle with the skiers in New England.  In addition, NENSA members will be considered NYSSRA members when racing in NYSSRA races.  They will be eligible to compete in the points series and to race in the Champions Cup race to compete for end of season awards.

NYSSRA Champ Checks In

Defending New York State Champion and long-time NYSSRA member, Duncan Douglas offers NYSSRA Nordic his online training journal.  Check out http://jackedupoldman.blogspot.com