by Charlie | Feb 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
Due to forecast cold weather, the weekend of events at Theodore Wirth Park originally scheduled for March 1-2 will now be scheduled for March 8-9. The National Weather Service is calling for cold temperatures this weekend – with lows between minus-7 and minus-10...
by Charlie | Feb 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
The Loppet Foundation and the MN Youth Ski League will be hosting a two-day ski festival for youth (15 and under as of 12/31/13) on March 1-2 at Wirth Park in Minneapolis. On Saturday, the schedule includes a Classic Mass Start (with a new Fish Scale Frenzy category),...
by Charlie | Feb 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
The City of Lakes Loppet drew more than 11,000 participants across 21 events this past weekend in its first-ever extended two-day format. For the first time the Loppet Foundation held all of the classic cross country skiing races on Saturday, while the skate-ski races...
by Charlie | Feb 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
by Charlie | Feb 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
In the inaugural “Puoli Loppet” in both the skate and classical skiing styles showed a strong field of competitors. The Puoli Loppet course (“puoli” means “half” in Finnish) is a 20-kilometer point-to-point race that starts in Theodore Wirth Park and ends in the...
