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2014 Registration Now Open
NEW – Saturday Classic/Sunday Freestyle Format
The Loppet Adds a Classic Only Day The 2014 edition of the City of Lakes Loppet features a new classic-only Saturday format. Skiers take to the course Saturday morning with a choice of three classic-only events: Hoigaard's Classic - A longer version of...
NEW – Loppet Challenge
NEW – Minne Tour
Surly Trail Loppet – MN’s Best Running Race!
Tri-Loppet Adventures with NSJ and Anwatin
At the food table after the 2013 Tri-Loppet Triathlon, among the usual mix of college-age and adult athletes, exhausted middle-schoolers could be found, heads shorter than the rest of the competitors but equally muddy as they reached for watermelon...
Anwatin Summer Training
Most middle-schoolers probably don’t have any idea why skiers would train in the summer, much less would sacrifice their precious morning sleep to get up and work out. “I thought 8:30 would be too early, but they always seem ready to go,” says coach...
Looking Forward to the Trail-Loppet
The Loppet Foundation’s Surly Trail Loppet, a thrilling trail run through Minneapolis’s own Theodore Wirth Park, is coming up on Saturday, September 21. Almost as famous for its fun and challenging course as it is for the delicious Surly beer at the...
Welcome, New Adventures Director!
Welcome, New Adventures Director!
By Annie Harvieux, Intern “The Foundation is not a typical non-profit,” says the job description for the recently hired Loppet Adventures Director. Few statements are more ambiguous than this, or more true. Rather than crunching numbers behind a desk,...