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Despite skimpy snow- Peace Coffee Pre-Loppet is on!
Dec. 23, 2011. Minneapolis, MN. Despite the skimpy snow patterns in the winter forcast, Peace Coffee Pre-Loppet is scheduled to happen natural snow or not. With its own snow making capabilities, Wirth should have snowed in its full three kilometers...
Anwatin Ski Team Races Biathlon
Last year, one of the biggest highlights for the Anwatin Ski Team was their training trip. On a late December weekend, the team of twenty drove up to the woods of Callaway Minnesota to ski through the enchanted winter forests and experience the infamous...
The Season has Begun! Loppet Ski Club in motion
While the cold and dark days have sent many Minnesotans into hibernation mode, members of the Loppet Ski Club have had no difficulties making the transition into winter. Since the additional inches of snow last weekend, Theodore Wirth Park has been...
Loppet Goes Hennepin
On snow! Nellie Stone Johnson skiers hit the trail.
Most skiers woke on Thursday morning to the delight of December’s first snowfall. What most would view as a far cry from skiable, most Twin City skiers read the dusting as Mother Nature’s promise of the impending winter months to come. However, that was...
A brush stroke of Loppet Blue
World Loppet Headquarters have been hit by the first storm of the season. The Loppet office, the hidden apartment unit adjoined to the Theodore Wirth Chalet, has been struck by the magic wand of Loppet Blue, setting the stage of a transformative winter...
Loppet goes Hennepin!
Minneapolis, MN- The City ofLakes Loppet is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a move to Hennepin Avenue in Uptown. Participants will ski from Lake Calhoun and up Lake Street before turning down Hennepin with a grand finish in front of Kitchen...
Tree Planting- TOMORROW!
A spontaneous opportunity to plant some trees is happening tomorrow, and we need your help! Help fill out the forest before the winter snows fall. The Nordic Ski Foundation is planting 21 trees along the ski trails and in the "back forty" section of...
Trails Day – Thank you Volunteers!
Nearly 200 people converged in the Theodore Wirth Park parking lot on Saturday October 29th. With a glowing sun melting the frost away, old and new faces from the Loppet community showed up with loppers, saws, buckets and shears to spend a morning...
First week of practice, a coach’s tale…
What in the world am I going to do with 40 middle school kids? When I received the roster a week or so before practice started, a big fat 40 stared back at me from the top of the page with an unsympathetic grin. Then the date on my calendar, October...