To: Nordic Club members
From: Ken Leghorn, Eaglecrest Snowsports School Nordic Supervisor
Ken_Leghorn@ci.juneau.ak.us day message phone: 523-5450
December 3, 2008
Greetings! I will be working 2 days a week at Eaglecrest this winter for the Snowsports School, helping with all activities related to Nordic skiing, including lessons, clinics, events, and coordinating things like trail work, signage, and future […]
The Anchorage Daily News has a series of short videos introducing skiers to various aspects of ski technique and preparation (click on the link under Nordic FYI in the blogroll column to the right). While these are pretty cursory, they do include some good footage of the basics.
Here’s a site for tips on ski technique. We’ll try to find an assortment of useful discussions to post here under the comments (click the link above). Readers are encouraged to share their own technique insights too.Remember that the Eaglecrest Snowsports School has several experienced and very proficient Nordic ski instructors, so consider touching up […]
Dear JNSC members and Nordic skiers,
For this coming season, Eaglecrest and the Juneau Nordic Ski Club have agreed to separate Eaglecrest Nordic Ski Passes and JNSC memberships. Both Eaglecrest and JNSC have reduced their prices to insure that the new arrangement is more equitable. JNSC will no longer be providing a share of our membership […]
Scott Fischer has announced that he will be holding a free waxing clinic at the Foggy Mountain Shop, downtown on Franklin Street, next Friday February 6 at 6:00 p.m. He will go over how to glide wax skate skis as well as waxable and no-wax classic skis, and how to apply classic kick wax. Remember, […]
Nordic Stretch and Tour – a new cross-country ski workshop at Eaglecrest for skiers who are interested in improving their ski touring experience by learning and improving skills both on and off their skis.
30 minutes of yoga based stretches to target ski muscles and balance followed by 90 minutes of classic ski touring tips […]
