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Hello Jackrabbit Managers,

If your child typically skis with Coach Ihor or with Coach Rob then please make sure that they bring their skate skis (if they have them) today. If they don’t have skate skis, then please scrape the grip wax off of their skis (but keep the glide wax on the tips and tails). It is free technique day (typically manifested as skate skiing).

This does not apply to Coach Katherine’s and Coach Jeff’s groups. These kids should still come with grip wax on their skis.

Air temperature is still forecast to be -13 degrees Celsius with a -22 windchill at skiing time.

Thanks,

Coach Rob

(on behalf of Coaches Ihor, Katherine, and Jeff)

Hello Jackrabbit Managers,

Yes! We can finally ski! It will be “warm”!

Tomorrow’s session (Sunday, 2 February 2014) of the Assiniboine Park Jackrabbits will indeed run as and where scheduled (see https://assiniboineparkjackrabbits.wordpress.com/assiniboine-park-jackrabbits-2013-2014-schedule).

Air temperature is forecast to be -13 degrees Celsius with a -22 windchill at skiing time. It’s a veritable heat wave!

Thanks,

Coach Rob

(on behalf of Coaches Ihor, Katherine, and Jeff)

Hello Jackrabbit Managers,

Sigh… Sigh…

Tomorrow’s session (Thursday, 30 January 2014) of the Assiniboine Park Jackrabbits has been cancelled. This is Coach Ihor’s “Fast Rabbits Thursday” at Windsor Park Nordic Centre.

Air temperature is forecast to be -21 degrees Celsius with a -30 windchill at skiing time. This is predicted to be slightly colder than our official -27 degree cutoff (https://assiniboineparkjackrabbits.wordpress.com/is-it-too-cold/).

Yes, it is possible that the weather conditions might actually be nicer than what is being predicted a day in advance. Unfortunately (or fortunately) the Short Term Meteocode weather model seems to be relatively accurate this winter, so it probably won’t make a lot of difference, if I were to cancel with only a few hours notice.

On a much warmer note: Have your young skiers see (three minute video) how Canada’s Alex Harvey came first and Devon Kershaw came second in last month’s FIS Cross-Country World Cup Tour de Ski (Stage 1 of 7) race (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS2qCmiNqj8) — skied in above freezing conditions!

Thanks,

Coach Rob

(on behalf of Coaches Ihor, Katherine, and Jeff)

Hello Jackrabbit Managers,

Sigh…

Tomorrow’s session (Sunday, 26 January 2014) of the Assiniboine Park Jackrabbits has been cancelled.

Air temperature is forecast to be -21 degrees Celsius with a -37 Celsius windchill at skiing time. This is predicted to be significantly colder than our official -27 degree Celsius cutoff (https://assiniboineparkjackrabbits.wordpress.com/is-it-too-cold/).

Also, even though Nordic X-Ventures mechanically groomed the Assiniboine Park trails late this afternoon, with winds forecast to be 50 kmh gusting to 70 kmh at skiing time on Sunday, it is likely that much of the tracks that we would try to ski in would be obliterated.

And speaking of obliterated, but on a much happier note: Have your young skiers see (three minute video) how Canada’s Alex Harvey came first at last week’s FIS Cross-Country World Cup Sprint Free race (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O77LHto8vFM) — skied in 0 degree Celsius conditions!

Thanks,

Coach Rob

(on behalf of Coaches Ihor, Katherine, and Jeff)

Hmmmmm… As of 2014-09-26, if you were not a member of our club and you were looking solely at our website it would appear that the Assiniboine Park Jackrabbits ski club stopped operating after 2014-01-12.  That is definitely not the case!  We skied until April 2014 and had our club wind-up in May 2014.

Like all previous ski seasons, in 2013-2014 the Assiniboine Park Jackrabbits frequently communicated with its members via e-mail. (Having said that, starting in the 2013-2014 ski season some information was put on the website when the information tended to be of a static nature, in general.) So, for the benefit of future members to get a feel for how our club operates, information that was sent out via e-mail after 2014-01-12 relating to the 2013-2014 ski season is now posted to the website (as an archive).  It is the APJ coaches’ intent that all ski club information will, from now on, be posted to the website beginning with the 2014-2015 ski season.

The Assiniboine Park Jackrabbits will indeed meet at 13:30 today, Sunday, 12 January 2014, but not in Assiniboine Park.

Instead, we will be skiing at Fort Whyte Alive.  Meet at the Fort Whyte Alive Interpretive Centre at 13:30.

Admission for everyone is free today because Fort Whyte Alive is hosting the“5^th Annual Snow Trek:  Winter in Motion”.  Free admission.  Free cross-country ski rentals.  Free cross-country ski lessons (I believe I was told).  For anyone.

Fort Whyte Alive indicates, “5th Annual SnowTrek”, “Celebrate Winter in Motion! Try cross-country skiing and we’ll provide the equipment, free of charge. Explore the frozen forest on guided snowshoe hikes or skate on our frozen lakes.  Warm up with hot chocolate by the campfire.  Sunday, January 12, 10 am – 4 pm.”

HI All!

Due to overwhelming response we are now full at 45 skiers and beyond that we won’t be able to have productive skier to coach ratios. Thus, we have had to close registrations (a shocking first time event!).

Thank you for your support of our club.

The APJ coaches