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Volks Ski Fest January 23-31, 2010

Volks Ski Fest is a fun, laid back, skiing and snowshoeing festival for the whole family! All week-long, all over Cook County, MN, find events designed to help everyone get out and enjoy the 400 kilometers of professionally groomed and beautiful northwoods trails.

Volks Ski Fest includes activities for all ages. Lodging is available throughout the area. Ski your favorite trails, or try new ones. View the area cross-country ski maps and check out the ski pass information.

Register now for this fun festival.

Volks Ski 400 Kick Off Ski Day

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Register yourself or a team in advance and choose a segment of our 400 km of trails to ski. Our goal is to have skiers on every kilometer of trail on that day! This is not a race or competition, just a day to Kick Off Volks Ski Fest and raise money for Pancreatic Cancer. We encourage skiers to time their treks, we will post times that day at trail lodges and on this website. Donations will be accepted for Pancreatic Cancer Research at trail check-in areas, a Volks Ski 400 pin is your gift for your donation! Dress in purple to show your support.

 Volks Ski 400
Go to REGISTRATION and sign up a team by trail area:
Sugarbush includes Oberg Mountain trails
Pincushion Mountain Trails
Cascade River Trails includes Bally Creek
Gunflint Trail System including Banadad, Upper Gunflint and Central Gunflint trails

The winners of the "Ride with a Groomer" drawing are: the Calvins of New London, MN
Volks Ski Fest brochure in .pdf (1.43 MB)
Volks Ski Poster

Volks Ski 400 Distance Results

Sugarbush Trail: Although not organized as a team or all officially registered these Volks Skiers were out on the Sugarbush Trails Saturday, January 23, 2010:
Sally Nankivell skied 4K
Andrew Slade skied the Oberg Loop, 8K
April and her husband Tom skied the Picnic Loop, 30K
Jan and Kathy Horak skied the Onion River Road, 5.5K
Adam Harju logged 31.5k on the Sugarbush Trails
Scott Harrison and Nancy Burns logged 16.5k
Greg Fangel and Liz skied 17k
Skier distances tallied: 112.5K

Cascade Trail:
Michael O'Phelan skied 22K on Saturday

Central Gunflint Trail:
Central Gunflint Trail System had a fantastic Volks Ski Saturday. Bearskin Lodge's 9 member team skied the entire 77k of the system in 9 hours and 38 minutes or an average k time of just a little over 7 minutes. Skiers reported good to excellent conditions on the trails

Banadad Trail:
While we were not able to ski the entire 40 kilometer Banadad Trail system for the Volks Ski 400, we did manage to ski 29 kilometers in a time of about 6 3/4 hours.



Volks Ski Fest Contact Information
Phone: 218-663-8058, Email: ccevb@boreal.org
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