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Upcoming events

    • 8 Dec 2023
    • 10:00 AM
    • Mt Bachelor Nordic Center
    • 0
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    Skate lesson for experienced skate skiers (at least 15 times skate skiing before this lesson).

    Note: Four sessions are being offered.  Each is the same material.  Only sign up for one!  If you register for more than one, additional registrations will be cancelled.  You can sign up for multiple waitlists. 

    Number of students: 4

    Meeting time/place: Meissner Sno-Park, 10 am

    Questions to  Jerry Sebestyen, jsebestyen@eoni.com


    • 12 Dec 2023
    • 10:00 AM
    • Meissner Sno-Park
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    Skate lesson for experienced skate skiers (at least 15 times skate skiing before this lesson).

    Note: Four sessions are being offered.  Each is the same material.  Only sign up for one!  If you register for more than one, additional registrations will be cancelled.  You can sign up for multiple waitlists. 

    Number of students: 4

    Meeting time/place: Meissner Sno-Park, 10 am

    Questions to  Jerry Sebestyen, jsebestyen@eoni.com


    • 15 Dec 2023
    • 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    • 469 NW Wall St., Bend. OR 97703
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    Meeting time/place: 5:00-8:00 pm. Trinity Episcopal Church, 469 NW Wall Street, Bend OR 97703.

    Participants: CONC members. Registration is NOW required. 

    Additional Details: The club will provide the Enchilada casserole main dish, coffee, tea, placemats, napkins, cups, utensils, and serving spoons. Participants should bring a potluck salad or dessert to share. BYOB. Contact Eileen to volunteer to help with event setup and take down. 

    Location: Trinity Episcopal Church, Brooks Hall, 469 NW Wall, Bend.

    Contact: Eileen Woodward, 541-977-7816.

    Also Bring: Donation items for the Family Kitchen such as weather appropriate clothing and personal hygiene items. 

    • 17 Dec 2023
    • Swampy Sno-Park
    • 0

    Beginner-Beginner ski lessons-  Groomed trails (Rolled)

    Lessons geared toward those with only 4-5 times on nordic skis.  Limited to 25 members.

    Topics include navigation, uphill techniques, equipment, falls and righting yourself, downhill techniques, and across the flat.

    Additional details as we get closer to lesson (ie meeting time and place, organization, groups...)

    UPDATE: The class limit has been reached, but you can be added to the waitlist.

    Number of students: 25

    Meeting time/place: Swampy Sno-Park, time TBD

    For Registration or Questions:  Jerry Sebestyen, jsebestyen@eoni.com


    • 19 Dec 2023
    • 10:00 AM
    • Meissner Sno-Park
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    Skate lesson for experienced skate skiers (at least 15 times skate skiing before this lesson).

    Note: Four sessions are being offered.  Each is the same material.  Only sign up for one!  If you register for more than one, additional registrations will be cancelled.  You can sign up for multiple waitlists. 

    Number of students: 4

    Meeting time/place: Meissner Sno-Park,10 am

    Questions to  Jerry Sebestyen, jsebestyen@eoni.com


    • 26 Dec 2023
    • 10:00 AM
    • Meissner Sno-Park
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    Skate lesson for experienced skate skiers (at least 15 times skate skiing before this lesson).

    Note: Four sessions are being offered.  Each is the same material.  Only sign up for one!  If you register for more than one, additional registrations will be cancelled.  You can sign up for multiple waitlists. 

    Number of students: 4

    Meeting time/place: Meissner Sno-Park, 10 am

    Questions to  Jerry Sebestyen, jsebestyen@eoni.com


    • 3 Jan 2024
    • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
    • Brooks Room - Deschutes Public Library - Downtown Bend, 601 NW Wall St, Bend, OR


    Learn about the over 27 miles of dedicated snowshoe trails in Central Oregon that are waiting to be explored. The large ponderosas, hemlocks, lava flows and a giant's fingerprint. Whether you are ready to snowshoe for the first time or are experienced, whether you are looking to snowshoe with your dog, or not, we will discuss destinations, equipment, maps, navigation, hazards and conditions in this 1-hour presentation followed by a Q&A period.

    Registration is not required for this event. 

    We will also be offering an opportunity to sign up with the Central Oregon Nordic Club to go on a non-member guided trip on Saturday, January 6th on a local snowshoe trail. There will be two trips offered. A short 1 mile trip that is open to children 8 and older and their parents and a longer 3 1/2 mile trip open to adults and children 12 and older. All children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. 

    Contact: Central Oregon Nordic Club (CONC), Bob Timmer, SnowshoeBendOregon@gmail.com 903-477-2168




    • 10 Jan 2024
    • Swampy Sno-Park
    • 0

    Beginner- Backcountry lesson-  tracked and untracked snow

    Lessons geared toward those who are comfortable on groomed but want to learn backcountry skiing.  Limited to 25 members.

    Topics include navigation, uphill techniques, equipment, falls and righting yourself, downhill techniques, and across the flat.

    Respond to Jerry at jsebestyen@eoni.com

    Additional details as we get closer to date.  (ie meeting time and place, equipment, organization, groups...)

    UPDATE: The class limit has been reached, but you can be added to the waitlist.

    Number of students: 25

    Meeting time/place: Swampy Sno-Park, time TBD

    For Registration or Questions:  Jerry Sebestyen, jsebestyen@eoni.com


    • 21 Jan 2024
    • 3:30 PM
    • 26 Jan 2024
    • 9:00 AM
    • 23
    Registration is closed

    CONC OVERNIGHT TRIP ANNOUNCEMENT

    INN AT MAZAMA, Mazama WA  

    January 21-January 26, 2024

    Registration Opens October 30, 2023


    INN AT MAZAMA in Methow Valley

    CONC has been going to the Inn at Mazama for many years.  It is conveniently located right on the Methow Valley ski trails, and just a few yards from the Mazama Store.  This puts it at the western edge of the Methow Valley trails, about 20 miles northwest of Winthrop on Highway 20. 


    This is the perfect setting for a club event.  The Inn is a combination of a lodge and two adjacent clusters of guest rooms.  Besides 10 guest rooms, the lodge consists of a large dining room adjacent to a huge, Russian fireplace and warming room where we gather to socialize and drink coffee in the mornings and a glass of wine or beer in the evenings before sitting down for a group meal.  There are 8 rooms (Pine, Pine +, Cedar, and Cedar +) accessed by a covered boardwalk in two clusters just beyond the hot tub. 

    The town of Mazama is very small, consisting of the amazing Mazama Store, a clothing store, and a ski school, besides a few other lodgings.  But it has everything you need to enjoy over 200 km of groomed XC ski trails!    

    The trails are arranged in roughly five groups: Sun Mountain, Rendezvous, Winthrop, Big Valley and Mazama & Upper Valley trails.  We typically ski out the door of the Inn for Upper Valley trails and those around Mazama.  Often we’ll drive down towards Sun Mountain or Rendezvous for a day.  Some people like to ski the 19 miles from Mazama to Winthrop!  Find all the trail maps HERE.

    Room rates this year are listed below:


    Meals this year will consist of 5 dinners (Sunday-Thursday), and 5 breakfasts (Monday-Friday), which will accommodate the expected Sunday arrival and Friday departure.  Lunches will not be offered, as most people have purchased snacks, sandwiches, and soup at the Mazama Store next door.  The meal plan cost will be $475, which includes tax and gratuity.  This year, Inn at Mazama is working with a new cook, Shannon.  Also, they are developing themes to address some of the shortcomings of last season.  They will also include gluten free and vegan options/variants with each meal.  

    Registration for this CONC trip is done by contacting the Inn at Mazama directly.  You can email or call the front desk to make reservations: frontdesk@innmazama.com or 509 996 2681. The Inn at Mazama will send you an invoice, which you will pay directly to the Inn by credit card. The registration period begins with the receipt of this email, and will close at midnight on Friday Dec. 22. 

    • 24 Jan 2024
    • 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Mt. Bachelor Ski Area
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    X-C Downhill at Mt. Bachelor

    Date: January 24

    This clinic is for anyone wanting to continue to progress your skills, especially working on better ski control in the downhill mode.  Coaches will work on a progression to include: Basic Body Positioning, Step Turns, Snow Plow Wedge, Wedge Turns, Kick Turns, Edge Control, Proper Hand Position, Pole Use, and much more.  This is not a telemark clinic.  CONC is offering a telemark clinic later in the season.

    We will be at Mt. Bachelor, using the lift named “Early Riser” located in the Sunrise base area.   Park at the Sunrise parking lot to meet in Sunrise lodge.  Early Riser is a free lift but a free lift pass will be necessary. We will meet at 10AM inside Sunrise Lodge upstairs for introductions and orientation. Pick up the needed free lift ticket at the rental shop downstairs before the meeting time.

    Prerequisites for this clinic are strict.  Novice to intermediate skiers with some downhill experiences are invited.  However, if you have lesser skills, the clinic will get frustrating for you and slow others down.  The following equipment is required: skis of 88-90 or wider mm in width, three pin or cable bindings and appropriate beefy boots to match, wider skis in the 100 or more-shovel range are even better. REQUIRED:  LEGITIMATE RUNAWAY STRAPS, SKI HELMET, ADJUSTABLE BACKCOUNTRY OR ALPINE POLES AND APPROPRIATE DRESS (ALPINE SKIING AND RIDING THE LIFT IS MUCH COLDER THAN A NORDIC TOUR). NNN-BC boots and bindings are not allowed unless you modify to allow for use of a ski leash (not easy to do). Pine Mountain Sports rents nice beefy backcountry skis with the new Rottefella Explore binding system and it is easy to add a leash to that system.

     This clinic is limited to the first 10 members who register.  After that we will develop a waiting list and will try and find more coaches to accommodate interest.  When you register, please list the skis, bindings and boots you plan to use.

    Number of students: 10

    Meeting time/place: Mt Bachelor Sunrise Lodge, 10 am

    Questions to  Woody Keen, trailwisdom@gmail.com


    • 12 Feb 2024
    • 3:30 PM
    • 16 Feb 2024
    • 9:00 AM
    • 0

    CONC OVERNIGHT TRIP ANNOUNCEMENT

    Mo's Way (Air BnB), McCall ID

    From February 12 thru February 16, 2024

    Registration begins on October 23, 2023 at 7:00 am

    Reservations will be taken beginning October 23, 2023 at precisely 7am (no earlier!) by emailing your request (Bedroom 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5) to Charlene Newman directly (2228newman@gmail.com).  


    McCall, Idaho 2024


    Building on last year’s successful CONC trip to Anthony Lakes we are heading to McCall, Idaho a small town situated at 5,000 feet elevation with a long history of both Nordic and Alpine skiing. Join up to 16 Central Oregon Nordic Skiers for an exciting new adventure including a stay at a highly rated beautiful modern cabin with ample space for large groups. Skiing opportunities are varied and include Bear Basin, Ponderosa State Park, Tamarack Resort, Lake Cascade State Park and Hasbrouck Ranch.  All ski areas are 20 miles or less from McCall. We expect to spend 1 to 2 days at Bear Basin’s 30km of trails with a good mix of all levels.  The drive from Bend to McCall is about 6 Hours and 30 Minutes.

     

    Trip cost is $275.00 per person for a shared bunk room and $375.00 per person/double occupancy for one of three private suites.  Also included are three (3) delicious dinners prepared at our AirBnB and one (1) evening dining out in nearby McCall. Trip participants will be responsible for their individual breakfasts and lunches.

    This year’s AirBnB destination is located close to downtown McCall at 1119 Mo’s Way. The quick 5 minute drive into town allows us to take advantage of the local restaurants and shops after skiing.  The home has 3000 square feet, 5 Bedrooms, 4.5 Bathrooms, and a hot tub!

    Mo’s Way Bedroom Layouts:

    Bedroom 1-Downstairs includes Queen with Full Bath (Sleeps 2-$375.00 per person/double occupancy)

    Bedroom 2-Downstairs includes Queen with Half Bath (Sleeps 2-$375.00 per person/double occupancy)

    Bedroom 3-Upstairs Bunkroom includes Three Bunks with Full Bath (Sleeps 6-$275.00 per person)

    Bedroom 4-Upstairs includes Queen and Bunk with adjacent hallway Bath (Sleeps 4-$275.00 per person)

    Bedroom 5-Upstairs includes King with Full Bath (Sleeps 2-$375.00 per person/double occupancy)

    We will try our best to put you in your requested bedroom listed above but be prepared to be placed in a communal sleeping room. Additional spaces can be carved out to place your comfy inflatable mattress in designated sleeping areas throughout the house if needed.

    How do I sign up?

    Reservations will be taken beginning October 23, 2023 at precisely 7am (no earlier!) by emailing your request (Bedroom 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5) to Charlene Newman directly (2228newman@gmail.com).  Be sure to include your roommate's name if you want to signup for two people, or if you want to signup 4 people for Bedroom 4 include all of their names.  Once your spot is confirmed, a week later each participant will be invoiced a non-refundable deposit of $100 and you will need to complete the required CONC Overnight Trip Application.  Final invoice will be emailed to you about 30 days before the trip. 

    Dinner will be provided each evening including a vegetarian option. The dining menu will be similar to those prepared by helping hands at last year’s Good Bear Ranch including Salmon and Wild Rice, Taco Tuesday, and Pasta Night.  Salad and dessert also included.  The large kitchen is capable of feeding a crowd! Each individual is responsible for their own breakfasts and lunches.  

    • 22 Feb 2024
    • 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
    • Hoodoo Ski Area
    • 6
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    Telemark Clinic

    Date: Feb 22

    Learn the oldest and most graceful turn in skiing. Join us at Hoodoo ski resort for an introduction to telemark skiing. We will focus on a progression of skills and drills that will guide you on your way to learning to telemark.

    Skills covered: proper weight distribution, the telemark stance, lead changes, proper hand placement and pole use, wedge to tele turns, telemark to stop turn, step tele, and linking turns together.

    We will start by using the very beginner lift at Hoodoo, and the Thrifty Thursday lift pass is $29 for all day. Please buy your lift ticket before the meeting time so as to be ready to meet and greet and then hit the slopes. The slope on this lift is super mellow, great for teaching and learning without being intimidated. If folks are progressing and comfortable, we can move on to other lifts and slopes. We will clinic for 2.5-3hours and break for lunch. You can bring lunch or grab something from the café in the lodge.I plan to free ski after lunch and folks are welcome to join me practicing and learning the mountain. Will stay on greens and easy blues after lunch.

    Prerequisites: CONC’s XCD clinic or solid downhill ski control including snowplow wedge and wedge turns, P turns, Step turns and generally comfortable on skis on downhill landscapes.

    Equipment requirements: Wide and beefy backcountry set ups with fish scales is OK, skis need to be 110mmwide at shovel (front) and 90mm wide under foot (or wider) with 75mm and 3 pin bindings or cable bindings. All skis must have retention devices or ski brakes. Even better for the clinic would be a true telemark setup: 75mm bindings (cable) or NTN, and tele specific skis with no scales. I have a few pair of loaner 75mm skis if you have 75mm boots for backcountry and want to try a true telemark ski instead. Please contact Woody for this (trailwisdom@gmail.com) as we would need to adjust bindings the week prior to the clinic. REQUIRED:  LEGITIMATE RUNAWAY STRAPS, SKI HELMET, ADJUSTABLE BACKCOUNTRY OR ALPINE POLES AND APPROPRIATE DRESS (ALPINE SKIING AND RIDING THE LIFT IS MUCH COLDER THAN A NORDIC TOUR).

    Buy your lift ticket before meeting the group. We will meet inside the lodge at the doors exiting the slopes and by Harold the Hodag (can’t miss him).  This clinic is limited to the first 10 members who register. After that we will develop a waiting list and will try and find more coaches to accommodate interest.  When you register, please list the skis, bindings and boots you plan to use.

    Number of students: 10

    Meeting time/place: By Harold the Hodag in the Hoodoo lodge, 10 am

    Questions to  Woody Keen, trailwisdom@gmail.com


    • 25 Feb 2024
    • 9:30 AM
    • 1 Mar 2024
    • 4:00 PM
    • 0

    CONC OVERNIGHT TRIP ANNOUNCEMENT

    Absaroka Lodge, Gardiner, Montana

    From February 25 thru March 1, 2024

    Registration begins on October 16, 2023 at 7:00 am


    Winter in Yellowstone!

    Come join your fellow Nordies February 25 through March 1, 2024 to see Yellowstone by ski. The price for this trip includes 5 nights lodging, three dinners and plenty of snacks, a snowcoach ride to the famous Norris Geyser basin including lunch, and, guided ski tours. We are really lucky to have George Wuerthner, a Montana native and former Yellowstone guide, along to show us this magnificent area. The table at the bottom of this announcement shows your cost depending on whether or not you share a room. Note that there are limited rooms available for single occupancy.

    Weather and group interest will dictate the trails we do, with hiking and soaking in hot springs also an option. Daily 4-6 mile ski tours will be on rolling terrain in forests and meadows in and out of Yellowstone National Park. We will stay at the Absaroka (pronounced Abzorkuh by the locals) Lodge where the rooms we are renting have two queen beds each and views of Electric Peak. The trip leadership will bring three prepared dinners that we will simmer in crockpots during the day. You will be responsible for your own dinner the night we arrive, Sunday, February 25 and one other dinner TBD in Gardiner that we will enjoy as a group. Additionally, you will be responsible for your own breakfasts and lunches. All rooms have small refrigerators and microwave and two of the rooms have kitchen supplies that we will use to dine as a group in a separate area.  

      

    The trip will be limited to 10 intermediate level or higher skiers. You must be comfortable skiing off groomed trails with equipment and clothing that can handle the terrain and the potentially cold and windy weather. Backcountry skis (but not telemark gear) will be needed. You must be able to attend a pre-trip meeting to be scheduled approximately one month before the trip (Zoom meeting attendance possible).  

    Getting to Gardiner by car will take approximately 2 days so expect to spend a night on the way in Kellogg, Idaho or Missoula, Montana. You can also fly to Bozeman, Montana and take a rental car to Gardiner. You may wish to add some additional days to your trip for other activities, such as skiing at Harriman State Park or Big Sky.  For more information, contact Louise Brown (louise.brown.pdx@gmail.com).

    Registration will open on October 16 at precisely 7:00 am! (no earlier!) by emailing your request (use table below) directly to Louise Brown (Louise.brown.pdx@gmail.com).  Be sure to include your roommate's name if you want to signup for two people.  Once your spot is confirmed, a week later each participant will be invoiced a non-refundable deposit of $100 and you will need to complete the required CONC Overnight Trip Application.  Final invoice will be emailed to you about 30 days before the trip.

    Kitchen Double Occupancy

    $667.00 

    Standard Double Occupancy

    $599.50 

    Kitchen Single Occupancy

    $1,072.00

    Standard Single Occupancy

    $937.00


    • 8 Mar 2024
    • 9:30 AM
    • 10 Mar 2024
    • 4:00 PM
    • Prospect OR
    • 25

    CONC OVERNIGHT TRIP ANNOUNCEMENT

    Historic Prospect Hotel, Prospect OR

    March 8-10, 2024

    Registration begins on January 8, 2024, 7:00 am, and closes on February 20, 2024


    CONC Crater Lake Ski/Snowshoe Trip 2024

    The annual ski trip to Crater Lake will take place this year on Friday thru Sunday, March 8-10.  Lodging will be at Prospect Historic Hotel Bed and Breakfast Inn, Motel and Dinner House ;  the same as in the past, hosted by Fred Wickman. 

    All costs listed have been updated for 2024 prices.

    The cost per individual based on double occupancy for two nights’ lodging, all meals (2 breakfasts, 2 lunches and 2 dinners), and gratuities will be $273 for a bed in the Motel wing, and $313 for a bed in the historic hotel.  There is an additional 25% charge for single supplements (Motel single = $338, and Hotel single = $388).  We have added $13 per person to the cost for the housekeeping gratuity.  Transportation to and from both Crater Lake and the Prospect Hotel will be on your own.  Family rooms are available in the motel and are billed at the double occupancy rate.

    Total price, including housekeeping gratuity:

    Motel Double Occupancy: $273/person
    Motel Single Occupancy: $338/person

    Historic Hotel Double Occupancy: $313/person
    Historic Hotel Single Occupancy: $388/person

    The current plan is to meet near the north entrance of Crater Lake on Friday (access in the park in the winter is only by the south or west entrance on highway 62), ski a half day, then drive to the hotel (about 1 hour from Crater Lake).  A dinner of spaghetti (vegetarian or meat) is served Friday evening, with Southern Oregon wine, beer and cocktails available at an extra charge.  Saturday morning, after a buffet breakfast, everyone heads back to Crater Lake to ski or snowshoe.  We will also try to set up a guided snowshoe with a park ranger which has been very popular in the past.  Brown-bag lunches will be provided. Saturday evening’s dinner will be your choice of prime rib, dill roasted salmon or vegetarian lasagna.  On Sunday morning a second buffet breakfast is served, and everyone departs for more skiing, exploring or a direct return to Bend,  Since the weather is unknown at this time, it is advised to also bring hiking boots.  There are trails near the hotel, including 3 waterfalls within a 12 minute walk from front door.

    To register, email Wendi Green (wendig1@msn.com)  7:00 am, Jan 8, or after with the following information:
    • Room preference: Motel or Hotel
    • Double occupancy or single occupancy (or family)
    • If Double occupancy, who is your roommate? (Note: your roommate must also be a CONC member)
    • Do you want to be matched with a roommate, if available?
    • Do you have any food allergies or restrictions the hotel needs to be aware of?
    • Please print, fill out, scan and return the Club Waiver form to me via email.

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The Central Oregon Nordic Club, PO Box 744, Bend, OR 97709, is chapter of the Oregon Nordic Club, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Email: conordicclub@gmail.com

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