Elver Park Trail Run–Saturday, Nov 4, 2023

Looking for one more fall trail race to add to your calendar–or just want to get out and move to support area Nordic?  Join us at the Elver Park Trail Run presented by MadNorski!  Date: Saturday, November 4, 2023Time: 9 amLocation: Elver Park in Madison, 250 McKenna Blvd, Madison, WI 53719 Races10km Run5km/Run/Walk1km Kids Fun Run (Free! and …

Blue Mound SP

There is still snow at the mound. However, the trails are extremely patchy, so I would recommend doing laps at the top where there is still good coverage. Get out this AM though, it's getting soft quickly. Another skier and I have set some decent tracks, but there is still plenty of snow for you …

Blue Mound SP

There's a lot of snow at BMSP. 12"+ in places where it hasn't melted or drifted away. Use wide touring skis or you'll sink all the way down and leave slushy tracks. Be careful on the downhills, there are wet or partially open areas at the bottom of some of them.

We did it! GoFundMe for Elver Grooming

The club received in the mail both a $1000 check that was part of the pledged matching funds AND an anonymous $500 donation for the GoFundMe for Elver Grooming. So it is official—we did it!  We reached our goal of raising $30,000 and we have paid the down payment towards the club’s new 2025 snow mobile that will be ready for delivery in …

Other

Made a trip up to Hayward to ski-started at 00 trailhead- went south. recently groomed with about 1" fresh snow on top about 6" base. a few spots where ice was below-tracks were good- Perfect conditions! 20f sunny and tons of REAL groomed snow- like mid winter conditions- should be around for awhile. Slower than …

CXC Outdoor Rec Center

Looking ahead to the forecast of lots of snow coming. Does anyone know if cxc will be grooming if the forecast bears fruit?

Other

Went up to Cable and skied a couple laps on the 10km Birkie loops. Trail in the woods the first 5km were perfectly groomed with still about a foot of base in most areas-once you got into the golf course area trail became a bit icy with about a half inch of real snow on …

Blue Mound SP

What little was left of the snow is now a solid chunk of ice. It's worth noting that even during this warmest winter on record, the mound was skiable for about 8 weeks, providing better conditions than trails hundreds of miles to our north.

Luke Kubasta Travels “Green” to Train

Many of you might see Luke Kubasta pull up to the Madnorski “Social Thursdays” trainings or to the winter race series by bike with his skis or rollerskis neatly attached to the frame. Luke travels “green!” How did you come up with this idea? I built this out of necessity after my car died a …

CXC Outdoor Rec Center

Stopped in at cxc to check conditions. Found the only snow left is the hill along the powerlines and still plenty of it there. Wednesday looks really cold -enough to make more snow.