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Get your skis ready!

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Get your skis ready!

SNOW! Yay, it’s so good to see that white stuff falling from the sky and accumulating on the ground. Our volunteer groomers are going to be busy this week both at the Elk Valley Nordic Centre and at the Fernie Golf and Country Club – not yet open for skiing – packing and grooming for both classic and skate skiing.
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Our next planned events

Monday Dec 18: Little Critter Ski
Criterium style ski event where competitors complete as many laps of a short course as possible in the 40 minute time limit. For every lap of the course completed, the skier puts his/her name in for draw prizes. Geared to skiers 12 and under. Meet at the Elk Valley Nordic Centre: sign up begins at 5:30 pm and ski begins at 6:00. Headlamps will be needed! Free for members, day ticket required for non-members.

Saturday Dec 23:  Family Social Ski
Join us for a fun Family Social Ski on Saturday, December 23 at 10:30am. It will be a great chance for the kids to try their skis, meet other families and maybe finish with roasting hot dogs or marshmallows on the fire! 

Teck Kootenay Cup December 30 & 31
You absolutely HAVE to pre-register for this amazing community event! Everyone is welcome, doesn’t matter your ski ability, this is a fun event for the entire community. When you register as a Fernie Nordic Society club member, you can even earn points for the club toward the overall Teck Kootenay Cup! Sign up right away and get a free lunch for either or both days. Find all the information you need here. To register go here. For additional halo points, one can volunteer to make this community event a success – contact volunteers[at]fernienordic.com

Dinner on Saturday evening Dec 30
On the evening of December 30, the Teck Kootenay Cup and Fernie Nordic Society have arranged a dinner at the wonderful Red Tree Lodge restaurant with musical guest Red Girl. Everyone is welcome to come to the dinner! You can purchase tickets at the door, or when you sign up for the Teck Kootenay Cup event.

Monday Jan 1:   Full Moon Ski & Social
Adults only. On the night of the full moon, meet at the Elk Valley Nordic Centre 19:00 – 22:00. Bring a snack to share & your headlamp, then ski under the full moon and enjoy the fire and food with friends! Free for members, day ticket required for non-members.

Wednesday Jan 3:   Toonie Race
Meet at the Elk Valley Nordic Centre for 19:00. Pre-registration is available. Headlamps will be needed. Course and format will be announced prior to each race. $2 per participant plus day ticket if not a member.

Next gear fitting session

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There will be a gear fitting session on Saturday, November 18 for the kids registered in the SDP lesson program. Stay tuned for more details by subscribing to our emails on this page. The fitting session will take place between 10:00 and 11:30 am in the basement below BoardStiff. Access to the basement is through the back alley. There will be several volunteers to do the fitting. We will also have the stickers to update your membership cards, so bring them with you if you are a returning family. The distribution of the gear will happen on Saturday December 2 from the same location.

3rd Annual Great Pumpkin Hunt

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The Elk Valley Nordic Centre near Fernie was again this year the site of our 3rd Annual Great Pumpkin Hunt event. An event open to the community just ahead of the ski season. The weather was very favorable on this Saturday morning of October 21. Three hundred pumpkins had been hidden in the bushes and among the fallen leaves by club volunteers. At 11:30 the hunt was on for a great number of boys and girls aged up to 9. Two firepits were set up on the site for roasting marshmallows and wieners. Hot chocolate and coffee kept the young pumpkin hunters and their parents warm. All appeared to enjoy the event. Several photos of the event appeared on Facebook later that weekend.

The Fernie Nordic Society wishes to thank our sponsors for their support: Grow Children”s Boutique, Save-On-Foods, Teck, Giv’er Shirts, Starbucks and Mr Allan Phillips

Second Annual Pumpkin Hunt

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Second Annual Pumpkin Hunt

What fun! Thank you to everyone who came out to the 2nd Fernie Pumpkin Hunt on Saturday morning at the Elk Valley Nordic Centre. By 10:45 am, the hunt was on. Many volunteers had hidden 275 pumpkins, more than double than last year! We even had to go for a last-minute run to replenish the pumpkins after the first 200 were claimed at 11:20 am! Thanks to those who waited for round 2 to get hidden. We”ll aim for 400 pumpkins next year!

We believed that no pumpkin were harmed abandoned in the woods. The forest was well searched. The hunt was followed by marshmallows by the fire pits as well as hot chocolate and coffee for the participants. The photo booth proved very popular with the pumpkin hunters.

To all volunteers, pumpkin hiders, pumpkin transporters, Emily Park Photography, Starbucks and Ann”s independent – thank you! Finally, Mother Nature, we owe you one. Thanks for pulling through! We also wish to thank Columbis Power for their generous support of this community event.

Watch for our next events when the white stuff comes down. Our first Toonie Race and Full Moon Ski events are to take place in December. Visit our Events page, or stay in touch at Facebook for details.

Read the short report about the event in The Free Press here.

Early bird membership fees

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Get your membership by November 15th and pay about 6% less than last season. After that date the fees rise. The club wants to promote early registrations as CrossCountryBC is holding a contest where clubs with improved membership numbers as of Dec 1st, can win loads of ski gear and other prizes. The other lesson fees and rentals for kids are unchanged. Online registration will be open at Zone4.ca by the end of August. Stay tuned! We will have volunteers at the Fall Registration Fair in Fernie on September 6 & 7 from 4 to 7 pm at the Fernie Court House – bring a cheque or credit card. Enrollment into the kids Skill Development Program fills up quickly. See the Membership and Kids Lessons pages for more details.