by Ben Theyerl | Sep 13, 2022 | Featured, NTG Camps, REG Camps
For a region where the ski tracks are well worn in, there’s a particularly original energy that courses through the Midwest. More skiers are moving through the glacial hills, big lakes, and plentiful forests found in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan than ever...
by Ben Theyerl | Aug 14, 2022 | Featured, Programs, REG Camps
Right below the parking lot for Mad River Glen on Tuesday August 2nd, groups of rollerskiers began to group up on the side of the road. Spotting them wasn’t difficult. Bright skis, bright shirts, and bright smiles, all lent to the air that these people just...
by Ben Theyerl | Aug 11, 2022 | Featured, Programs, REG Camps
Last weekend in Ironwood, Michigan, neon-shirt wearing, ski boot in the middle of summer donning athletes started to be seen on campus again. For the small campus of Gogebic Community College, the sudden spike in the number of rollerskis seen in its parking lots is...
by Ben Theyerl | Aug 4, 2022 | Featured, Programs, REG Camps
There’s not a whole lot of mystery to why Nordic skiing has a long history in Vermont. Physically, the landscape is a perfect mesh of old forests, mountains, hollows, and fields. Culturally, there’s the just off-the-center attitude, the embrace of the pastoral, and...
by Ben Theyerl | Aug 1, 2022 | Athlete Update, Featured, REG Camps
At the beginning of July, the top U16 skiers in the West all ascended up to the 9717ft base area at Copper Mountain, Colorado for a week of training hosted by Summit Nordic Ski Club. For many, the U16 regional camp was there first exposure to a training camp...
by Ben Theyerl | Jul 28, 2022 | Programs, REG Camps
Central REG camp took place in Marquette, Michigan at the beginning of July. The Central Region has a full summer schedule this summer, including a full rollerski series put on by CXC, a series of camps bringing younger U14 and U12 skiers from across the region...