Donna and I drove up today and skiied [skate and classic] at Enchanted Forest above Red River. Given the serious drouth we are in here in NM, the conditions...
Hi all, I just wanted to get the 2-minute warning alert out about this year's Chama Chili Classic in Chama, NM. It is on Feb. 19, the day AFTER the Mt. Taylor...
Oops, I had some misinformation. It turns out that the event is actually slated to be on Saturday the 18th of Feb. That does conflict with the Quadrathlon....
Hi All - I am the lead designer on Distance Logger, which is a super easy online tool to log and track your distance sports... and everyone else's. With our...
Hopefully some major mistake has occurred, will be corrected, and Los Alamos Nordic members will never again receive pornographic, repulsive emails such I...
Just went thru the process of banning the member who sent the trashy email posting. We used to get a few more of these before we required joining LA Nordic...
My email service must have filtered it. I didn't receive the bad message. Apologies to all of you who received the trash email. What makes people want to do...
...er, I mean, the Hut? I think Tom Berg asked a while back if any of us had plans to work on it at all this summer, but I know I didn't respond. Anyway, if...
Lots of work to do. Miles, if you read this, see below. I need to see if you can help us with some of the trees that have partially fallen -- some are live --...
I just wanted to send out a quick thanks to Miles Standish of the Forest Service office in Espanola. He read my lengthy email and is going up with a crew to...
First off, Miles Standish, awesome name. Second this is Geoff at the Enchanted Forest XC Ski Area. Just wanted to let you know if you are dying for trail work...
This is an important session ... and really the last one needed to get the trail ready for snow and grooming. Others have taken care of all the logging, brush...
Hi all, I've had a few people ask me about the club and what we're about and such. If you know of anyone...ANYONE...who is interested, please help point them...
Here is Clay's Report from Saturday night: Subject: Trail Conditions "Saturday afternoon/evening, Ken and I got Rambo fired up after some effort, but it ...
What snow we have has been machine packed into the trails and should allow for skiable conditions with modest additional snow fall. Thanks to the many...
I'm sending this to a couple of groups, as I had a few folks ask me how conditions are, and if there are any conditions to speak of... I made it up to...
EL NIÑO GAINS STRENGTH Dec. 7, 2006 — The latest El Niño/Southern Oscillation Diagnostic Discussion, produced by scientists at the NOAA Climate Prediction...
Hi everyone. Hope you're enjoying the snow. The trails received anywhere from approximately 18" to 24" (as of last evening), depending on where you measure...
All the woods loops have been groomed very wide for skating and conditions are quite good. The road and meadow portions have not been groomed out yet, but...
The trails were regroomed last night by Clay and David---they are magnificient. Set for Classic and Skating and frankly, it's hard to believe it's the 1st...
Conditions good--hard cold snow with good skating conditions. Classic tracks have held up well since Saturday's grooming, tho the xmas eve winds storm have put...
Hi all, Dave W., Tom B. and I did a little "pre-storm" grooming work on the trail system last evening. We used the "tenderizer" to break up some of the glazed...
We rolled the trail system tonight, but it was still snowing pretty hard during the entire time and as of 9:30pm. Things were still soft and we didn't get a...
It took several of us working in shifts to get the trail packed and groomed out, but it's done and the trail never looked better. We packed and widened most...
Jessica Kiesel recently wrote this excellent summary of the Pajarito XC Ski Trail above Los Alamos and the involvement of Southwest Nordic Ski Club in it's...
Gene Dougherty and Carl Hagelburg took over grooming last evening and made a pass on the entire system with the tenderizer rollers. It did a lot of good on...
Since Clay's 11:00AM report today it has cooked a bit with the sun and there were a fair number of icy spots. But the real problem was trash: I was wondering...
Groomed in 3" of fresh snow around the ski trail and meadow trail loop with classic tracks, +10km loop. Thanks to John U. for the help. Great skating and...