Author Archives: Alan Telford

Special Offer on BNDS T-Shirts and Hoodies

This is a shameless advert…but it’s in an excellent cause and it’s a good offer.

There is never a better time than to support the British Team and the British Nordic Development Squad, than right now.  Show solidarity and support the cause which helped put a Nordic Team to the Olympics. From 31 January until 28 February we are running a special offer as follows:

BNDS Hoodies & T-shirt  combo

Children £20 (save £7.50)      Size  Ages 9/11, 12/13 and 14/15 years (hoodie only) Adults £25 (save £9.50)         Sizes   Sm / Med / Lge / XL

T-shirts only

Children £7.50 Now £6

Adults    £ 9.50 Now £7

Hoodies only

Children – Normally £20 NOW £17

Adults –    Normally £25 NOW £22


To place order, contact: Rick Newman, richardnewman@clara.co.uk 077881 44554

while stocks last.

http://www.bnds.org.uk/index.php?/News/bnds-hoodies-olympic-special-offer.html

XC Zone On YouTube

Here’s a some content I found on the Cross Country Skier website. It links to the XC Zone YouTube Channel, which has some really high quality videos on Cross Country Skiing Technique

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmR5WXd_F8I[/youtube]

To go straight to the XC Zone You Tube Channel click here

Snow Report 31st Jan 2010

A brief visit to the Clash today — did not linger too long because of drifting on the roads. 2 other vehicles (4WDs) in car park. Report based on Main trail/Short Cut/Leids Leap.
Clash — Sunday 31 Jan 2010, 1200hrs:
Temp minus 1; snow showers and long sunny intervals; fresh NW wind; drifting in exposed areas.
Off-piste snow depth 60cm, including 15cm fresh powder. The powder is variably distributed on top of the packed trails. Wonderful smooth skiing! Continue reading

JDS Week 4

Four out of four JDS weeks on snow this year. Is this a record? You begin to hope the entire JDS could be run on snow in 2010, but that’s a bit unrealistic given the Scottish climate. Alice didn’t want to go to JDS most of Saturday, but relented in the evening. Continue reading

Snow Report 30th Jan 2010

Another outing to the Clash this weekend after the snow on Friday. The roads were quite snowy up from Lumphanan and I had to divert via Insch following a crashed milk tanker between Lumsden and Rhynie.

The signs in Rhynie were showing “Road Closed Cabrach” but the chap in the shop at Rhynie thought you ought to be able to get up to the ski trails so I gave it a go. Sorry to Colin Miller if that was you I saw as I was driving through the village and didn’t stop!

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Snow Report 27th January 2010

Report from Colin Miller.
Snow report for Clash, as of 6pm, Wed 27 January 2010, based on short recce from Car Park along main trail to top of Telemark Twist:
Temperature plus 2, strong NW wind, moonlit evening after wintry shower. After brief interlude of warm temperatures on 27/1/10 the trails appear to have held their snow.  Thanks to grooming some days ago, and to frequent skiing, the main trail has 30cm compacted snow, giving fast skiing. Off-piste there is general cover of 50cm of sugary snow.
Front section of car park has been well ploughed, giving space for 12-15 cars, with some patchy, old ice. A941 has much surface water due to melting snowbanks on 27/1/10. Wintry forecast for next few days suggests snow and road conditions subject to change!

British Olympic Team Announced

The British Olympic Association (BOA) officially announced the names of the cross-country skiers that will represent Britain at the

Andrew and Roy this Summer

Vancouver Winter Olympics in February. They are: Andrew Musgrave (19) & Andrew Young (17) both Huntly Nordic SC & Fiona Hughes (19), Yorkshire Dales Cross-Country SC.

Andrew Musgrave in 2008