The Sun Valley Nordic Festival is a week filled with nordic skiing, demonstrations, races, seminars, and activies all culminating with the Boulder Mountain Tour.
LOCATION: Stanley Ice Rink The Boise Curling Club will host its inaugural bonspiel on Stanley’s outdoor ice rink. The SOB will be a 12-team, three-day bonspiel with a three game guarantee. To find out more about the bonspiel and register to play in the bonspiel, please go to www.sobidaho.com
Spectators are welcome to come and watch the bonspiel for free. Curling games will take place Friday evening starting at 5:00pm, Saturday morning, late Saturday afternoon, and Sunday morning.
There will also be a free “Learn to Curl” session at noon on Saturday, January 26, on the outdoor ice rink in Stanley. Participants will learn about curling and have the chance to throw some curling stones and participate in a short game. To sign up for the Learn to Curl, send an email to sob@boisecurlingclub.org or show up at the ice rink at noon on Saturday and look for the Learn to Curl registration table.
To learn more about curling, check out the video: http://www.sobidaho.com/learn-to-curl.html Contact & Details
LINK: http://www.sobidaho.com TEL: (208) 310-1207 CONTACT: Jared Belsher
Ski the Rails/Hailey Downtown Party
1/26/2013
10:00:00 AM
Wood River Trail
Start at Serernade Lane in Ketchum or anywhere on the Wood River Trail
Join us for a cross country ski tour along the Wood River Trail. Grab your family, friends, visitors, even your dog. Learn about the history of the famous Wood River Trail from a locals perspective. Aid stations along the way will keep you energized along the way. Buses available. End up at a great party with music at the Sun Valley Brewery in downtown Hailey!
Apres Wine Tasting
1/26/2013
3:00:00 PM
Frenchman's Gulch Winery
360 E 9th St Ketchum, ID; 1 block up 9th street from Warm Springs rd
Join us for music, good cheer, and a glass of silky red wine. We are the world famous local winery with grapes hailing from eastern Washington and fermented in Nordic Town, USA. We'll provide cheese and meat plates to complement our high altitude wines.
Official wine of the Galena and Trails Winter Benefit.
Join us for the 17th Annual Galena & The Trails Winter Benefit! Kick off the Nordic Festival with this amazing celebration and fundraiser for our community lodge and trail system, one of the most extensive and special anywhere!
Come out and SKI FOR AIR SERVICE! Put a little alpine into your Sun Valley Nordic Festival week with a day of skiing at Sun Valley for only $40! WOW! And get 50% off demos and rentals, and 50% off select lodging for the weekend!
The discounted $40 lift tickets must be purchased Jan 16-26 at participating ski shops in Ketchum, Hailey, Twin Falls and Boise – no sales on Jan 27. There is also a fun Apres Ski Party at River Run, 3-5pm, featuring live reggae-rock music and a raffle for terrific prizes like 4 roundtrip tickets on Alaska Airlines and a ResortQuest 2 bdr condo rental.
Get all the details at www.flysunvalleyalliance.com/air_service_day.php
Skin It to Win It Ski & Snowboard Race
1/27/2013
10:00:00 AM
Dollar Mountain
Skin It 2 Win It is a ski & snowboard race on Dollar Mountain where participants skin 563 feet up Forbidden Fruit ski run and then ski or snowboard down Otto's Run trying to complete as many laps as possible in 3 hours. Categories include men, women and coed teams of one, two and four person teams. Each lap takes approximately 15 minutes. Coffee, energy drinks, food and music are provided for racers to enjoy in between laps. This fundraiser benefits the Sawtooth Nationals forest Avalanche Center. A donation of $25 per person requested.
10:00 am to 1:00 pm with awards to follow
Facebook: Skin it 2 win it team race
Alturas Ski and Apres Ski
1/27/2013
3:00:00 PM
Alturas Trails/Smiley Creek Lodge
40 miles North of Ketchum/ Sun Valley, Lodge 16546 Hwy 75
Come ski one of the gems of Central Idaho. The Alturas Lake Nordic Ski Trail rolls through trees, glades and meadows with fantastic views in all directions. Great skating on the main trail with many nice side loops on softer tracks. Apres ski buffet at Smiley Creek Lodge with hearty mountain style food $19.00 per person. Come ski at Alturas trails and then join us for Apres Ski at 3:00pm.
Monday
Apres Wine Tasting
1/28/2013
3:00:00 PM
Frenchman's Gulch Winery
360 E 9th St Ketchum, ID; 1 block up 9th street from Warm Springs rd
Join us for music, good cheer, and a glass of silky red wine. We are the world famous local winery with grapes hailing from eastern Washington and fermented in Nordic Town, USA. We'll provide cheese and meat plates to complement our high altitude wines.
Official wine of the Galena and Trails Winter Benefit.
Emily and Mac (208) 726-0118
Tuesday
Ski with the SVSEF XC Gold Team
1/29/2013
1:00:00 PM
Sun Valley Nordic Center
1 mile east of the Sun Valley Village on Trail Creek Road
Come ski with the XC Gold Team! Meet the team, go skate on some perfect trails, have fun and finish at the Sun Valley Clubhouse with a coffee or a beer! Sun Valley trail pass required.
Don't miss this annual dinner and a ski at the lodge during the Nordic festival. Join Don, Erin and the Galena gang for a great night of skiing and time with friends.
Check galenalodge.com for more info on time and reservations.
Wednesday
AXCS National Masters Prologue
1/30/2013
10:00:00 AM
Sun Valley Nordic
1 mile east of the Sun Valley Village on Trail Creek Road
Prologue 3.3km Skate. This event is an unscored, one lap race on the same course as the 10km CL event for Thursday, interval start. Check in beginning at 8am at Sun Valley Nordic.
Men- interval start- one every 30 seconds- start in order of Age Class- youngest to oldest.
15 minute Hold
Women- interval start- one every 30 seconds- start in order of Age class-youngest to oldest.
For more information call Sun Valley Nordic at 208-622-2250
Register for the AXCS National Master events at www.BoulderMountainTour.com
Taste We're brewing different coffees from our line up each week, serving as espresso, pour over, french press or drip. Take a seat at the tasting bar and enjoy!
Buy Purchase a bag of your favorite after you taste it, or place an order in person for a later roasting date. In-store coffees are available on tasting day until sold out.
Tour Ever seen a coffee roasterie close up? Take a look around our roasterie on your own, or we'll give you the mini tour.
Ask Got a coffee question about grinding, brewing, or storing? Ask us! Our favorite subject is coffee, and we share everything you want to know to help you make your coffee at home great.
This will be the Ketchum Sun Valley Historical Society's Induction Ceremony for the Sun Valley Ski Hall of Fame. The ticket price will be $25.00 which will include hors d'oeurves and a drink. Tickets can be purchased at the Ski and Heritage Museums at 180 1st Street East Monday through Friday 12:00 to 4:00 or Saturday 1:00 to 4:00 or by calling (208) 726-8118. Ceremony should run 4:00-6:00pm.
Don't miss this Roundtable discussion featuring some of the leading experts on Nordic Skiing today: Dan Heil, Professor of Exercise Science at Montana State University; Dave Knoop, Executive Director of National Nordic Foundation; and Jon Engen, Chairman of USSA Cross Country Sport Committee
Drop by after the Hall of Fame ceremony to take part in this lively conversation.
Thursday
AXCS National Masters 10km CL
1/31/2013
10:00:00 AM
Sun Valley Nordic
1 mile east of the Sun Valley Village on Trail Creek Road
This is the official scored classic event for the 2013 AXCS National Master Championships. The scored distance event will be the Boulder Mountain Tour 32km. 10km Classic race to be run on the same 3.3km loop as the Prologue from Wed.
Checkin and Bib / chip pickup will begin at 8 AM at Sun Valley Nordic.
Start procedure:
Mass start by Age Class Waves 10:00 am Women F0 25-29- 10:00 F1 30-34- 10:02 F2 35-39- 10:04 F3 40-44- 10:06 F4 45-49- 10:08 F5 50-54- 10:10 F6 55-59- 10:12 F7 60-64- 10:14 F8 65-69- 10:16 F9 70-74- 10:18 F10 75-79- 10:20 F11 80-85- 10:22 F12 85 and older- 10:24
If the field of oldest skiers is small there may be a combination start
Get ready, get set for this year's amazing event. Join us for the NordicTownUSA Sprints celebrating some of the elite athletes in the sport in a downtown circular course. Kids races, music provided by Mobile Fidelity, and refreshments from Galena Lodge all round out this amazing night.
Top men and women will compete in a coed skate sprint relay held in downtown Ketchum next to the Post Office. This year, the event will be expanded to include a mountain bike race held in the same format as the ski race.
Format for the Main Event: 2 person, one woman, one man teams. 1 leg equals two laps of the course. Each skier will ski 2 legs, alternating between woman and man.
Register: 3-4.30pm at the Event. No entry fee. Bibs handed out at the start
Schedule: 4pm : 1 lap mass start Elementary Aged Race 4:15pm: 2 lap mass start Middle School Race 4:30pm: Wood River Ability Program Demonstration Event 5:00pm: The Main EVENT- 2 person Coed Sprint Relay 5:20pm: First Annual Winter Fest Bike Relay
Prize Money for the Nordic Town Sprints Relay: Per team 1st -$300 2nd - $200 3rd - $100. Awards immediately after each event.
Join us for some High End Ski racing and don�t forget the vuvenzela�s and cowbells (More Cowbell!)
Don't miss this amazing evening outdoors in beautiful Ketchum, Idaho
Join us Thursday, Jan. 31st, before, during, or after:
NordicTownUSA Downtown Jam and Sprints Eclectic dinner specials, appetizers, premium beers and wines 15% of sales will go to Galena & North Valley Trails.
All entrants will need to pick up their Race Bibs, Clothing Bags and timing chips along with last minute race information, wave seeding information, souvenirs and promotional materials on Friday February 1st at the Boulder Mountain Tour Expo from 10:00 a.m. till 8:00 p.m. in Ketchum at the YMCA on the corner of Warm Springs Road and Saddle Road.
One of America's longest running and most respected cross country ski races, the Boulder Mountain Tour is the Wood River Valley's winter treasure. Drawing a field from across the country, and across the spectrum of abilities, the BMT welcomes all. The race traverses the spectacular Boulder Mountains for 32 kilometers of breath-taking beauty and world class competition. Some of the finest skiing to be found anywhere on the planet combined with warm hospitality and first rate race organization.
2013 Half Boulder 15km
2/2/2013
12:00:00 PM
Start at Baker Creek halfway point of the BMT course
The Half Boulder is an untimed participation event and no age class awards will be given. Each participant will receive the BMT souvenirs and clothing bag and will be eligible for raffle prize drawings at the awards ceremony.
All the information is available at www.BoulderMountainTour.com
The awards for the AXCS National Masters Championships as well as the Swix Boulder Mountain Tour will take place at the Limelight Room in the Sun Valley beginning promptly at 5:30 pm.
There will be age class awards, wave winners, raffle prizes, and the special awards presented every year.
Every effort will be made to condense the awards ceremony to one hour so you can take advantage of the other events and great restaurants of the Sun Valley area.
The final event of the annual Sun Valley Nordic Festival. Try all the latest cross country ski equipment from Boulder Mountain Tour sponsors and enjoy the beautiful and unique skiing at Sun Valley Nordic.
The Sun Valley Nordic Festival celebrates the more than 200km of Nordic trails in and around Sun Valley, one of the largest and most diverse systems in the United States!
We invite you to accept the "Trails Challenge" this year and try to ski 200km this season! You can ski every trail or ski your favorites over and over to reach a total of 200km! Click here for more information!We invite you to accept the "Trails Challenge" this year and try to ski 200km this season! You can ski every trail or ski your favorites over and over to reach a total of 200km! Click here for more information!
