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News about Huntly Nordic Ski Club

Club AGM

The Club AGM was Thursday 28th October at Huntly Nordic and Outdoor Centre.

The new comittee are

Chair: Alan Telford –  alan.telford@nordicski.co.uk
Vice-Chair: Hilary Musgrave
Treasuer: Claire Newman
Secretary: Peter Thorn – tel: 01464 831429, huntlynordicsc@yahoo.co.uk
Club Coach/Training Officer: Eileen Young
Events Co-ordinators: Dave Horsley / Andrew Shanks
Child Protection Officer: Nick May
Press/Public Relations Officer: Claudia Zeiske

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Ski Centre Rollerski Courses

Huntly Nordic Ski Centre is hosting the following courses for the holidays.

Age 8-16 (allowance will be made for slightly younger if you have been using rollerskis at JDS) 1hr per day Monday to Friday £25 per child per block

Improvers

Suitable for those who have done the primary school sessions on Tuesdays or have their Orange JDS award
26th to 30th July inc. or 9th to 13th August inc. 11am to 12pm.

Advanced

Suitable for those with their Red, Blue or Purple JDS awards
19th to 23rd July inc. or 2nd to 6th August inc. 11am to 12pm.

Please Book in advance

http://www.nordicski.co.uk/hnoc/

Huntly Sprints 2010

The sprints were held today. The despite the damage to the track last Autumn a full program of racing was completed with Novice and Elite Courses and a knock-out. Attendance appeared to be a bit down on last year, but a strong team  from Cairngorm Biathlon And Nordic Ski Club meant there was tough competition. In addition the RAF team was in attendance lead by Steve Perry. The

Club member Andrew Young took first place in the Men’s Elite competition, follwed closely by Alex Standen. Hopefully this is a good sign for Alex’s upcoming Winter season. Cairngorm U16 member Calumn Irvine took third place, marking him as someone to keep an eye on in future.

With Sarah Young competing in the men’s competition, Highland Nordic’s Katy Homyer took the laurels in the Women’s competition. Unfortunately Catriona Dudgeon took a nasty fall in the 500m time trial which knocked her out of the day’s competition. Full results below

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Musgraves Start Push For World Domination

At the 5km F FIS race at Ylitornio in Finland at the weekend Posy Musgrave broke the magic 120 FIS pts barrier (119.47 pts) to earn herself World Cup qualifier. In the same race just 3secs behind Posy was Sarah Young which was a tantalising 2 secs outside a World Cup qualification standard (122.65 pts). Better luck next time Sarah! It’s great to see our first Women’s world cup start.

Meanwhile Andrew Young won the 1st stage (10km C) of the Junior Tour de Barents today. He beat Finn Hagen Krogh of Norway into 2nd place. Finn won gold & bronze at the World Juniors in January. Andrew will be wearing the red leaders bib in tomorrows 15km F.

Ming Event 15th May

Rick has contacted me to highlight the Ming Endurance event which will be held on May 15. It has been very well attended in the last few years . There are two courses to choose from and there is also the Ceilidh in the evening.  The endurance event is free with donations to British Nordic Development Squad. The Ceilidh is also in aid of BNDS, tickets from Rick.

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If The Snow Lasts Until Next Saturday…and Snow Report

We will have made it to 100 snow cover days in the current season! Peter Thorn was wondering if we should do something to celebrate…

Here’s Colin Millers Snow report from March 20th

True to form, the Clash is still well worth visiting. Almost all the trails are complete, with 15-50cm spring snow despite an occasional thin patch here and there. Haute Route and Timberline have huge amounts of snow. Biathlon Range and Classic Start have ample snow for training. There’s a 150m walk-in from the main entrance. Lower part of Range Way is bare, and there’s a short break on main trail at foot of the long uphill before Short Cut. Off-piste 50-55cm, patchy in open areas. Wax not advised — you’ll gather a small forest of pine needles and twigs! 

Buck Tour 13th March 2010

For the past few years I have wanted to do some mountain touring, I even bought myself some posh skis and boots, but Frank and Alan at The top of the Bucknever quite got out to actually use them until last week. Pete was good enough to organise a trip, there was snow and I had a pass out. I’ve often looked up at the Buck when I’m in the Clash car park and thought it would be great to ski up it. Now my opportunity had come. Continue reading

Save Your Tesco Vouchers

Eileen Cosgrove says…

The British Nordic Development Squad will be collecting TESCO school and club vouchers again this year.
They have been available since the beginning of March.
Last year we collected about 30,000 and bought hurdles, shot putts and yoga mats with them. I’m not sure what is on Roy’s wish list this year.
Please leave vouchers at the ski centre or give them to Eileen