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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...

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...

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....

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

A reflection on her time at the Loppet Foundation by Loppet TRAIL KIDS Program Director Kim Rudd It has been said that it takes ten years of consistent hard work to make an Olympian, and I believe this is true - as well for any successful youth sport...

From growing up in a Kenyan refugee camp to running for Loppet Run 365 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mohamed shares his journey. Life in the refugee camp Born in Kismayo, Somalia, Mohamed’s family fled civil wars and moved to Dadaab, a site in Kenya that...