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Thursday, December 9, 2010

ANTLERLESS DEER HUNT DECEMBER 9-12 - Many Area Trails NOT Affected

Unlike the late season antlerless deer hunts of recent years, this year’s hunt will not affect many of the most popular ski trails in northwest Wisconsin. Hunting this year is based on units as specified by the DNR in which a set number of antlerless tags have been allocated. Several units, including unit 13, which includes much of southern Bayfield and northern Sawyer Counties, home to the American Birkebeiner ski trail and numerous other local trail systems have no tags allocated - so there will be no hunting in these areas. Similarly affected are areas east of US Hwy 3 and north of US Hwy 70.

All other units will have an antlerless season. Skiers should wear blaze orange if they venture onto the trails in these areas through Sunday.

To view a the Deer Management Units map consult the DNR website: http://dnr.wi.gov/org/land/wildlife/regs/.

Note that Regular Units-Buck Only WILL NOT have an antlerless hunt. Other Regular Units and Herd Control Units WILL be open to hunting.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Fall Dryland and Rollerski Clinic with Garrott Kuzzy and Brian Gregg

Fall Dryland and Rollerski Clinic with Garrott Kuzzy and Brian Gregg
Saturday, October 30, 2010
9 a.m.- 3 p.m.
What:
• A full day camp covering stretching, dryland exercises, drills for running and ski mechanics, and two levels of roller ski coaching.
• Open to those age 18 and over.
• Roller Ski 101 will be for the raw beginner, and Roller Ski 201 will be for the intermediate to advanced skier looking for new drills and technique analysis.
• Camp participants can work on either Skate or Classic technique.
• Roller skis will be available to those who need them. These skis will have Salomon bindings for both Profile and Pilot Boots.
• Come and get a glimpse of what a camp day for the professional athlete may be like.
Athlete Coaches: CXC athletes Brian Gregg (xcskilife.com ) and Garrott Kuzzy (garrottkuzzy.com )

Host Coaches: Jay Tapper (ActivEdge ) and Bill Pierce (F.AS.T. Performance Training).

Where: Seeley, Wisconsin - Lenroot Lodge (ActivEdge) and Silverthorne Park.
• ActivEdge - Lower Level of Lenroot Lodge, Seeley, WI.
• Silverthorne Park - 1 mile North of Seeley on Highway 63.
Start Time: 9 a.m. at ActivEdge.
• The camp will be held rain or shine, warm or cold, so bring clothing suitable for late Fall weather including dry changes of training gear.

Who: Any skier of any ability level who wishes to improve their performance or enjoyment of Nordic Skiing.The Camp will be limited to 30 people.

What to Bring: Ski boots (for either technique or both), helmet, light leather gloves, bright colored shirt/vest/jacket, running shoes, classic length poles for bounding, running or trail shoes, roller skis and poles with road ferrules. Limited pairs of roller skis are available for use. Please contact bill@birkie.com ahead of time to reserve roller skis.

Cost:

There will be a $20.00 fee charged for this camp.
• The fee will cover a barbeque grilled lunch and a donation to be given to Brian Gregg and Garrott Kuzzy.
Brian and Garrott are full time professional skiers who are working towards a berth on the 2011 US World Championship Team. The World Championships in 2011 are in Oslo, Norway, at the famous Holmenkol venue. We wish them all the best in this quest and want to help support them for spending this day coaching with us.

Registration: On-line registration is available here.

Schedule:
9:00-9:20 a.m.
Check in at ActivEdge

9:20-10:20 a.m.
Warm-up, Stretching & New Concepts on Core with Jay Tapper

10:20-11:30 a.m.
Dryland drills for both running and skiing mechanics with Brian and Garrott

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Lunch at Silverthorne Park.

12:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Roller skiing 101 and 201. Video assessment will be available to the 201 group.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Brule Valley Ski Club Fall Work Day and Notice of Annual Meeting

Brule Valley Ski Club
Fall Work Day and Notice of Annual Meeting
Sunday, October 31st, 2010

Work day: Meet at 12:00-Noon at Afterhours Ski Trailhead
Brushing work on ski/snowshoe trails
(bring gloves and pruning equipment)

Annual meeting: 4:30 pm
Agenda:
Secretary Report/Approve minutes from spring 2010 board meeting
Treasurer Report
President Report
Old Business
New Business
Election of Officers
Brule River State Forest Update on trails/future plans
Newsletter needs
Set 2010-11 Winter Calendar

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News Articles Welcomed for the Next Brule Valley Newsletter
The following articles usually appear in the annual newsletter:
Cordell Manz: President's Update
WDNR State Forest Staff: Update on trails, maintenance, future plans, trail
passes sold, financial reports, etc
Greg St. Onge: Utilities and grooming
Gary Rutledge: Snowshoe trail
Susie Isaksen: Club membership
Rhonda O’Leary/Bob Cragin: Treasurer duties

If you have pictures of the Afterhours Ski or Snowshoe trail or would like
to write an article of interest for the next newsletter,
please contact Borg Isaksen at borg@northbaytrading.com
Submission is requested before November 10th, 2010

UW Green Bay Coach Butch Reimer Remembered

UW Green Bay Nordic Ski coach Butch Reimer is remembered by former team member Eric North:

After a short but valiant battle with a very aggressive form of Leukemia, the ski community and world at large lost an incredible human being in Butch Reimer. Butch began the Nordic Ski Team at UW-Green Bay in 1989. At that time it was in the NCSA, but joined the NCAA and became a Division 1 Ski Team. In testament to both his athletes and his coaching, by 1996 he had sent at least 7 men and 4 women to NCAA Nationals. His skiers produced many regional championship victories and several top-20 and even top-10 finishes at NCAA Nationals. Some of his former athletes you might know include Bryan Fish, Adam Swank, Josh Tesch and Santi Ocariz. Butch's coaching style was to lead by example. Until several years into this coaching at GB, he could still compete and sometimes beat his own skiers! He was kind and patient, but still somehow seemed to bring out the best in his skiers. Butch prided himself on developing skiers from the Midwest, often foregoing more talented skiers to give Wisconsin and Minnesota kids a chance at skiing fast and a good education. In fact, many of his champion skiers (and even more that weren't champions) were kids that no one else would give a chance to. And, when UWGB was left without a coach, he stepped up and resumed the position he had left years earlier to focus more on his family, effectively rescuing the team from collapse to continue providing opportunities for kids to realize their own dreams in both skiing and school.

Most importantly, Butch wanted his skiers to be good people. Practices were ALWAYS a balance of hard work and fun. As it should be every day in life. So many of us former skiers credit our lifelong friendships we built with other teammates to him. We've become Doctors, Physical Therapists, Biologists, Builders and Teachers. And there isn't a one of us that has learned valuable life lessons from our old coach, both successes and failures. He has inspired many of us to continue passing on his legacy of coaching through fun and competition. Passing on the gift of the lesson to play hard and work hard, all the while with respect and patience.
As an athlete, Butch gave me and many others far more attention and patience than we/I deserved. Butch gave me the opportunity to realize a dream and reach my potential. But he also gave me the opportunity to bond with people who I would hold dear and remain my closest friends for the rest of my truly lucky life. He didn't just create a powerhouse ski team, he created a family. He and his family opened their homes to us all, fed us and cheered us on the ski trail and in life.

There were many of us who did get to be touched by Butch. For others, there's a good chance you've met someone on the ski trail who was influenced by him.

Please visit his caringbridge..com site and sign his guest book at butchreimer (lowercase, one word). Read some of the entries and it quickly becomes clear that there are many of us who were lucky to know him. Services will be held in Green Bay on Saturday, Oct. 23. Updates are on his caringbridge site.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

HASTA Ski Swap November 13

Hayward Area Ski Trail Association (HASTA) invites one and all to come to our early season “SKI SWAP.” Sell your silent sports equipment, clothing, bikes, skis, boats, and anything for the outdoors you have. Buy gently used new to you silent sports equipment, clothing, bikes, skis, boats, and more.

The SWAP will be Saturday, November 13, 2010, at Hayward Weslyan Church, 10655 Hwy 77 W, in Hayward, Wisconsin. Drop-off will start at 7:30 and go until 9:00 am, ONLY. The new shopping time will start at 9:02 and continue until 11:00. Pick-up all unsold gear and/or cash at 11:01 until 11:30. HASTA will not be responsible for any items left after 11:31.

The NEW check-in system works like this. Label your equipment and bring along a list of your items. To save time, label all your equipment at home with your name, an item number, and the price you want to sell your gear for. (Duct tape works fine!) Then, bring the list with your name and phone number (s) at the top of your list, your items numbered 1 to ?? and each item description, and your price next to each item. HASTA charges a 15% fee from the price you set. All proceeds are directly re-circulated to support local cross country ski trails. HASTA volunteers will be available to help set prices and select ski sizes.

For additional SWAP information call 715-634-8079

Friday, October 15, 2010

Birkie® Searches for Three Strong Skiers to Re-Enact 54-Kilometer Journey to “Save the Prince”

The Board of Directors for the American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation (ABSF) is searching for two cross country skiers to dress as Birkebeiner warriors and a woman skier to represent Inga, the mother of baby Prince Haakon to ski the 54 kilometer journey from Cable to Hayward on Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011 re-enacting a historic event more than 800 years ago.

The three skiers will dress in authentic gear, ski on wooden skis, and depict the 800-year-old rescue of Prince Haakon (Hō-ken), the baby who became one of the most popular kings in Norwegian history. Inga will ski either the 54-kilometer Classic Birkie or 23-kilometer Kortelopet before meeting up with the Birkie warriors and baby Prince Haakon at the finish line on Main Street in Hayward.

The Birkebeiner warriors became a Norwegian symbol of courage, perseverance and character in the face of adversity; and the historic rescue inspired the creation of three ski marathons - the Birkebeinerrennet in Lillehammer, Norway, launched in 1932 and skied on the same route as the famous rescue; the American Birkebeiner, launched in 1973 when the late Tony Wise looked to his Norwegian roots to create a high-profile event for Telemark, his ski lodge in Cable, Wisconsin; and the Canadian Birkebeiner, launched in 1985 in Alberta, Canada.

Inga and the Birkie 2011 warriors will serve as “ambassadors on the trail” encouraging both skiers and volunteers. The warriors will carry a baby doll along the course until Main Street where they’ll pick up a real infant “Prince” before skiing the last two blocks with Inga to the finish line.

“The reenactment has become a great tradition that our skiers, volunteers, and spectators look forward to every year,” said Ned Zuelsdorff, Executive Director of the ABSF. “We feel it is important to highlight the historic roots of the race with Inga, Baby Prince Haakon and the two Birkebeiner warriors. We are challenging skiers to find a friend, and tell us in 300 words or less why they would be the best Birkie 2011 warriors, Torstein (TOR-stine) and Skervald (SHER-vol).”

Entries must show ability, passion and tradition and demonstrate that the pair is capable of skiing the 54-kilometer challenging course on wooden skis while wearing the warrior costumes, carrying weapons of the era, and transporting baby Prince Haakon.

“The Inga entries can be part of or separate from the warrior entries,” Zuelsdorff said. “Again, we are looking for a 300-word essay that shows passion, ability and tradition and demonstrates why the entrant should be selected as the cherished mother of the baby Prince.”
The American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation will supply the Birkebeiner and Inga outfits and Birkebeiner weapons. Selected skiers must supply their own wooden skis.

To enter the competition, email a 300-word essay to media@birkie.com (one essay per warrior pair and one for each Inga). The deadline is November 15, and men and women are encouraged to apply.

“Be concise and persuasive,” Zuelsdorff said. “The warriors and Inga winners from 2009 and 2010 will review the essays and select the winners who will ski as the 2011 Birkebeiner warriors as well as the winning Inga. All three winners will be announced on December 10, 2010.”

Thom Gerst, Coon Rapids, Minn., and brother Gary, Maple Grove, Minn., replicated the rescue in 2008; Jeff Cummisford, Waukesha, Wisc., and best friend Richard Pierce, Verona, Wisc., portrayed the warriors in 2009 and brothers David Nelson Medicine Lake, Minn. and Grant Nelson, Duluth, Minn., served as the 2010 warriors. The contest was started in 2003 and all of the former winners remarked that skiing as one of the Birkebeiner warriors made that Birkie their most memorable.

Gail Moede Rogall, Madison, Wisc., and son Bjorn represented Inga and Prince Haakon in the 2008 rescue. In 2009 Lyndsey Lewis, Fort Collins, Colo., and son Piercen assumed the roles of Inga and Prince Haakon. Josie Nelson, Medicine Lake, Minn., and son Karl served as the 2010 Inga and Prince Haakon. All three women commented that participating in the re-enactment was a very positive experience and one that their families will never forget.

Ski and Tea to Host Women’s Ski Clinics

Hosted by Ski and Tea three progressive ski technique clinics will be presented by CXC Vertical Team Elite Skies and USA Team/Olympic hopefuls Maria Stuber and Friends.

Clinics will be held on October 23, 2010, December 18, 2010 and January 16, 2011. Clinics are open registration for women only of
all levels of ability from ages 12 and up, beginners to seasoned racers.

Clinics will be held rain, snow or shine from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the 00 Cabin in Seeley, Wis. Clinics are fund raisers for the clinicians to help them with their training and travel expenses. One hundred percent (100%) of the revenue goes to them.

The cost of each clinic is $50.00/person. No refunds can be made for any reason.

Ski and Tea is very excited to once again offer this outstanding opportunity. This is a golden opportunity to jump start the ski season and have fun with your ski sisters and learn from the best women skiers in the Midwest. Grab a friend or relative to join you and come on out for a fun and motivating experience learning to ski better and more efficiently with the latest ski techniques. These beautiful, strong and talented elite skiers will provide coaching and instruction for women skiers at all levels.

Contact Linda Cook for additional information at: lpcook@chibardun.net.