Author: Tyneside Loipers

The Snowsport England Coaching week is returning to Kvitavatn (near Rjukan, in Norway's Telemark region). The three top SSE coaches Patrick Winterton, Mike Dixon and Alan Eason will be running a whole week of training focussing on cross country skills (classic and skating) and racing. Dates are 31st March to 7th April 2019. Highly recommended by several Loipers who have participated in previous years. Accommodation is available in the comfortable Kvitavatn Fjellstue. Full details can be found here.

More details and contact info are on the Events Page.  In March we will be based in the lovely Dalseter hotel in Norway for a week of track skiing and off-track touring. There are 23 of us signed up for the trip and 9 of us are then moving on to the Jotunheim area for a week and a half of hut touring. We are hoping to ski Norway's second highest peak Glittertind. We also have a couple of trips organised by Tim Owen - a telemark coaching week in Val d'Isere with Telemark Tracks in December and a week of telemark/alpine guided ski touring in the Queryas national park in Jan/Feb. Jane Brantom is also organising a week of track skiing in Dobbiaco Italy. And we are expecting to…

Fifteen Loipers attended the AGM at the Northumberland Club in Jesmond on 9th October. This has been a good venue for us but the buffet meal this year was a bit disappointing. The meeting produced some good discussion. Thanks everyone for contributing and thanks to Neil for chairing and Charlie for the minutes. After the meeting Alan showed a few slides of club trips from last winter and looked forward to some of the club trips planned for this year (details elsewhere on this website). Download the full meeting minutes here