Winter events Season 24/25

Winter is finally here and hopefully a few of you have made the most of the early snow. Some dates to look forward to below. As always our races dates are driven by conditions and we will keep the website calendar and Facebook updated with any changes.

Christmas Quiz

Our first event will be the annual Christmas Quiz. The quiz will be held on Thursday 19th December at HNOC. Start time will be 1930. Teams will be made up on the night.

Banchory Rollerski sessions

Working with SnowsportScotland, we are piloting some activity in the Banchory area, because we know we have quite a few members in that area. To start with, there will be monthly Saturday morning rollerski sessions led by a coach at Knockburn Loch. Initially sessions will be for people of any age with some rollerski experience, but if there is interest in beginner sessions then that will be considered in the future. Rollerski equipment can be provided, but must be requested in advance of the sessions.

Participants to arrive for 0930 with sessions running 0945 – 1115.

Dates:

  • Sat 21 Dec 2024
  • Sat 18 Jan 2025
  • Sat 15 Feb 2025
  • Sat 15 March 2025

Clashindarroch

We have our usual Clashindarroch events planned and hopefully some snow will come to allow these to go ahead.

Thursday 02 January – Ski-O
Sunday 19 January – FIS World Snow Day
Sunday 02 February – Clash Dash
Sunday 23 February – Huntly Champs
Sunday 02 March – Back-up Race Date.

Keep an eye on the club Facebook page for updates on the forest events.

Any questions about any of the above, please contact secretary@nordicski.co.uk.

Huntly Sprint and Clash Hill Climb Results

Below is the attached results for this weekends rollerski races.

A big thank you to all those people who took part, and to the numerous marshals and organisers who worked so hard to made it all possible. 

Also, thanks to HNOC for hosting the Sprints on Saturday, and Iain at rollerski.co.uk (and Swenor), for supplying the matched skis for the Clash Hill Climb on Sunday.

Photos are available on our Facebook page.

Huntly Sprints Results 2024

Clash Hill Climb Results 2024

Huntly Sprints and Clash Hill Climb

The scottish rollerski series begins the 2024 season with the Huntly sprints on Saturday 25th May. Competitors battle it out over multiple time trial course and seeded head to head knock out race to find out who is fastest round our track.

This is then followed by the grueling Clashindarroch Hill Climb on Sunday 26th May. The course begins in the historic hamlet of Rhynie climbing 202m over 8.05km to the Forest car park through a rural glen.

Entries close Wednesday 22nd May.
Enter here

Huntly Nordic Ski Club – Huntly Roller Ski Championship 2023

Huntly Nordic Ski Club are hosting the 4th race in the 2023 Scottish Roller Ski Championship Series

  • Date: Saturday 9th September 2023
  • Location: Huntly Nordic & Outdoor Centre, Hill of Haugh, Huntly, AB54 4SH
  • Organisers: Huntly Nordic Ski Club (supported by Aberdeenshire Council)

Bib-collection from 9am with safety briefing and course practice from 9.30-10am.

Racing starts at 10am with courses for all ages and abilities including:

Hill Course – skiers must be competent to ski big hill
* Sen/Vet 7.1km (10 laps)
* U18/U16 5.1km (7 laps)
* U14/U12 3.5km (5 laps)

Intermediate Course – open to all ages able to ski smaller hill

* 2km (5 laps of “the cut”)

Novice Flat Course – open to novice skiers of all ages who would prefer not to ski downhills

* 1.2km (2 laps of outer)

(Any ages can ski Intermediate & Novice races. Their Series points will be allocated sequentially behind Hill Course results, with
Intermediate ranking higher than Novice.)

All races will be time-trial format.

Registration deadline is 9am on Thursday 7th September. Registration is online only. There will be no registrations on the day.

More details and registration can be found on Spond here:

https://club.spond.com/landing/courses/huntlynordicski/F6EE0DDD3F364EAE8015516DED0F17FD

Results for the Huntly Sprints and Clash Hill Climb May 2023

The results for the Sprints and Hill Climb can be found below:

Huntly Sprints_Results_2023_FINAL RESULTS

and

Clashindarroch Hill Climb 2023_Results_FINAL-1

 

Thankyou to all the participants for coming and taking part, we hope you had a great two days of racing. Also a big thankyou to all the volunteers who helped at both events, without your help and support we couldn’t run the races.

Clash Dash Results

Attached are the time trial results from Sunday’s Clash Dash. Well done to all 37 skiers who set times. A particularly competitive male vet race.

To add to these 37 skiers are numerous younger JDS skiers who skied over shorter courses in head-to-head races.

Thank you to everyone who helped today. This was easily the largest number of skiers taking part in a Clash Dash.

Clash_Dash_2023_1.3km_Time_Trial_Results

Ski-O 2023 Results

Scottish snow can be be so unpredictable. With a couple of days to go we thought we might have to cancel because of icy conditions then on the day, in superb sunshine we had perfect conditions. Thank you to all who took part. With 38 participants it was easily the biggest field we’ve had for a Ski-O. I hope you all enjoyed it.

A big thanks to Peter, Elizabeth, Kirstie & Dave who helped set the course then did the timing & organising on the day.

Results

Clash_Ski_O_2023_results

Huntly Nordic Champs – new dates

The new date for the Club Roller Ski Championships will be 1st October 2022

The Registration page can be found by clicking here

If you registered previously we will hold the registration you made before (you don’t need to re-regsiter). If you registered for the 10/9 but won’t be able to come to the new date, please email treasurer@nordicski.co.uk
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Racing will be held over three courses

  • Main GB Series Race distances: Seniors 7.1km (10 laps), U18/U16 5.1km (7 laps), U14/U12 3.7km (5 laps).
  • Main races will follow laps of the hill loop – all skiers must be competent to handle downhills.
  • For skiers not confident of main course downhill have option of Intermediate Race, 2km (5 laps of middle loop).
  • There will be a novice race following the flat outer loop for less experienced & younger rollerskiers. 1.8km (3 laps).

Race Rules and time table can be found here and here.

Entries in advance only deadline is 12 midnight Thursday 8th September. Entry forms can be found on Spond here. 

Results from Huntly Sprints and Clashindarroch Hill Climb

The Sprints results are shown below, apologies for the delays in producing the results, with two years off from running the races we were clearly out of practice.

Huntly_Sprints_Mens_Results_2022

Huntly_Sprints_Ladies_Results_2022

Huntly_Sprints_Elite_Mens-Ladies_KO_Races_28_May_2022

Huntly_Sprints_Mens_Plate_and_Novice_KO_Races_28_May_2022

Thank you to all of you who took part or helped out at the Clashindarroch Hill Climb. I trust you have all dried out. Apologies with the delay in getting these results out, but we had some technical issues compiling them.

05 Clashindarroch Hill Climb 2022_Results_