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Loopet Loppet 2021 Recap
Hey Loopet participants, volunteers, and everyone else who came out to watch and cheer! Thank you so much for coming out to the 2021 Loopet Loppet and making the event such asuccess. Together you ran or helped people to run 942 laps totaling 3,869.4...
2021 Minneapolis Park Board of Commissioners Candidate Survey
In the Park: Eloise Butler
Eloise ca. 1921 (1) History Below: Eloise Butler, ca 1890s (2). Eloise Butler was born in 1851 in Appleton, Maine and became a botany teacher. Upon moving to Minneapolis, Eloise frequently took students into the bogs of Glenwood park for lessons, known...
Behind the Medical Tent with Mark Bixby
Mark Bixby (R) and his dog Buddy pictured with a Sitka Salmon Shares CityTrail Loppet finisher (L). Mark has attended every Loppet race since they began, but never as a skier. One of the Loppet’s original board members and long time trusted medical...
Looking Forward: North Minneapolis Expanding Programs
Youth Farm While most people are familiar with activities or event at the Trailhead - the Loppet also programs out of another of its locations in North Minneapolis, an emerging hub for healthy living, nutrition, and outdoor activity....
Education meets The Trailhead – a new path to graduation
The virus-ridden winter presented many challenges, perhaps most impactfully to the students sent home to screens for online learning. In an effort to make up for lost benefits of the classroom, the Loppet Foundation provided an alternative learning...
Team Birkie and LNR Collegiate group train at altitude for 2+ weeks
Team Birkie and the Loppet Nordic Racing (LNR) summer collegiate program just got back from a big altitude training camp in Bozeman, MT. Most of the athletes spent two full weeks there, while a handful spent three. The goal of this training camp was to...
TRAIL KIDS Summer Recap
It's hard to believe that it’s already August! This TRAIL KIDS season has sure been a bustling one. Since April, we’ve had over 1,300 kids take part in our mountain biking and run/orienteering programs and the season isn’t over yet! The season has...
Red Bull Brings Urban Portage to Minneapolis on August 28
Race by canoe or kayak with multiple portages along a marathon-distance course through the Twin Cities’ urban waterways MINNEAPOLIS, JULY 8, 2021 – Red Bull Urban Portage is a marathon-distance paddle...
Team Birkie Launches
Three of the largest cross country ski organizations in the Central Region combine forces to start a professional racing team Central Cross Country Skiing (CXC), the Loppet Foundation, and the American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation (ABSF) are...