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Fall Weekend Trail Help * Plan on every November sat/sun with bridge building, glade clearing, ditch digging, downfalls, brushing, and overall tuning of the trails. We will provide lunch and follow up snacks and goodies at day’s end. Please email us about your plans, a productive way to ease into winter.
November 27 2011 Evergreen Wreath Making Workshop - Join us for an afternoon of fun learning how to make your own holiday wreath. Bring a hand prunner and any decorations or adornments you'd like to add to your wreath. We'll have all the materials you'll need including a variety of firs to construct your very own piece of artwork. We'll get started at 1pm and be around all afternoon. Contact Dave Saville daves@labyrinth.net
December 3-4 2011 30th Annual Jack Frost Celebration - Count on a big turn out as we open up the season in honor of one our favorite snowy characters. Trail work, the celebration, and Sunday brunch with adventure tours round out the weekend. Bring a dish to share Saturday eve and we will provide the refreshments.
Dec 5- 23 2011 Locals Ski Free Month - Free area use and discounted rentals and lessons for all that want to ski, try it out, give it a try, snow days and nothing better to do...we want you to experience cross country skiing and/or snowshoeing. We offer good deals on locals season passes as well.
Dec 10- Special Olympics Coaches Training- A refresher to get the season started and prepare for the Special Olympics in Jan.
Dec. 24 Snowshoe Discovery Tour 1 pm - A natural history snowshoe walk with Chip Chase as he shares his knowledge about the climate, forest type, and geology of the area. Enjoy a short streamside jaunt that lasts about an hour and covers around a mile of easy rolling terrain.
Jan 1 2012 New Year's Day Carefree Snowshoe Tour - 10 am Your chance to appreciate the simple beauty of snowshoeing. Natural history and local lore are featured.
Jan 7 Winter Trails Day - Free lessons/clinics and rentals to all first time interested skiers or snowshoers. XC lessons every hour and a 10 am and 2 pm clinic on types of snowshoes, clothing, basic techniques, and outdoor winter snow travel followed by a natural history tour on snowshoes into our neighboring National Wildlife Refuge.
Jan 7 Kids Clinic 9:30‐2 pm For Ages 6‐10 Morning session from 9:30‐11:30. Both beginner and experienced kids will have fun playing games, learning new skills and eating a delicious lunch from the White Grass Café. BB Biathlon 3 PM
Jan 8 Snowshoe Discovery Tour: Winter Birds 10 am Many kinds of birds have adapted to the harsh winters of the Allegheny Highlands, from Winter Wrens staking their survival on a trickle of open stream, to American Woodcocks probing unfrozen ground with their prehensile bills. Join local ornithologist Casey Rucker for a walk that will begin at two of the winter birding hotspots of Canaan Valley, the Whitegrass bird feeders. During a walk through the woods we may see mixed flocks of birds foraging together, and we may be surprised by a Barred Owl, Pileated Woodpecker or Rough-legged Hawk. Binoculars will be available. If it's blizzarding we will forego the walk in the woods.
Jan 14 Women's Winter Ski Day Refresh or pick up some new ski techniques while having a blast. Instruction available for all types of skiers and experience levels from track and skate techniques to downhill control and telemark turns. This day is especially suited for those of us who never have enough time to ski as much as you'd like. Lunch included. 9am-3 pm. Please come between 9-9:15 if you need to rent or have a cup o' coffee or tea.
Jan 16 Snowshoe Discovery Tour 10 am- A natural history snowshoe walk with Chip Chase as he shares his knowledge about the climate, forest type, and geology of the area. Enjoy a short streamside jaunt that lasts about an hour and covers around a mile of easy rolling terrain.
Jan 21 Parent's Kids Clinic Ski lessons for our littlest skiers! Parents and children ages 3-5. Morning session from 10:00-11:00. What does every skiing parent want for their children? Good health, happiness, and of course a love of skiing. We'll engage your youngest skier in games and activities that will make them beg you to go skiing again. Plus parents will learn how to play skill-based games with your little ones. BB Biathlon 1 PM
Jan 21-22 NATO Telemark Workshop Vermont's Dickie Hall and staff come to WG with down to earth telemark instruction. This course will likely leave you with a new bright direction in your skiing.
Jan 22 Snowshoe Discovery Tour - 10 am This is Your Land Are you interested in the history and management of the different public lands in Canaan Valley? Then this is the outing for you! Join Dave Saville for this very informative program.
Jan 22 5 Km Snowshoe Walk/Run - 1 pm Well organized by Helvetia, WV distance runner Dan Lehmann this event features a rolling course full of prizes and fun. Snowshoe rentals available for $8.
Jan 26-27 West Virginia Special Olympics Winter Games - Gathered are racers from three states, parents, coaches, volunteers, and helpers. This event will give back tenfold what is put in!
Jan 29 Snowshoe Discovery Tour - Ecosystems Beneath Our Feet 10 am Led by biologist Dr. Dave Culver from American University, this outing will take you on an adventure you’re sure not to forget! Snowshoe to some small springs in the area in your quest to discover blind, white bugs.
Feb 2 Our Ground Hog's Day Ski - 9am Our annual trek in search for clues to the rest of winter never seems to end. Full day backcountry journeys usually have no route in mind and end up a little lost.
Feb 4 Kids Clinic 9:30‐2 pm For Ages 6‐10 Morning session from 9:30‐11:30. Both beginner and experienced kids will have fun playing games, learning new skills and eating a delicious lunch from the White Grass Café. BB Biathlon 3 PM
Feb 5 Snowshoe Discovery Tour: GPS Mapping Skills - 10 am Rick will provide an introduction to GPS technology including principles for mapping points and routes, with particular emphasis on central Appalachian forest ecology and wildlife applications. Bring your own GPS if you'd like, but Rick will have loaner units for first timers. Dr. Landenberger is the Executive Director of a non-profit geospatial research and education network, and a West Virginia University faculty member in Geology & Geography
Feb 4-5 NATO Telemark Adventure Tour - 8 am Guided instructional tours into the Dolly Sods and surrounding area with NATO staff.
Feb 11 Parent's Kids Clinic Ski lessons for our littlest skiers. Parents and children ages 3-5. Morning session from 10:00-11:00. What does every skiing parent want for their children? Good health, happiness, and of course a love of skiing. We'll engage your youngest skier in games and activities that will make them beg you to go skiing again. Plus parents will learn how to play skill-based games with your little ones. BB Biathlon 1 PM
Feb 12 Snowshe Discovery Tour- Behold! The Land of Canaan - 10 am Historic highlights from the founding to the lumbering age in Canaan Valley. Also a discussion of the conifers that are found in the Canaan Valley Area. Led by local Master Naturalists Bruce and Andy Dalton
Feb 20 President's Day Snowshoe Discovery Tour - 10 am with Chip Chase, owner of White Grass and lifelong outdoorsman sharing his knowledge of the area as well as the history of the relationship with the Fish and Wildlife Service and the formation of the Refuge here.
Feb 25 Kids Clinic 9:30‐2 pm For Ages 6‐10 Morning session from 9:30‐11:30. Both beginner and experienced kids will have fun playing games, learning new skills and eating a delicious lunch from the White Grass Café. BB Biathlon 3 PM
Feb 26 25K Mountain State Marathon - 1 pm This rolling course never gives you a needed break or settle for a shortened version. Kid's classes, and great prizes. $20 entry fee. Fully groomed for classic or skate, sweet prizes, website splatter and personal glory. (Originally scheduled on Jan 29)
Mar 3 Parent's Kids Clinic Ski lessons for our littlest skiers. Parents and children ages 3-5. Morning session from 10:00-11:00. What does every skiing parent want for their children? Good health, happiness, and of course a love of skiing. We'll engage your youngest skier in games and activities that will make them beg you to go skiing again. Plus parents will learn how to play skill-based games with your little ones. BB Biathlon 1 PM
Mar 3 Women's Winter Ski Day Refresh or pick up some new ski techniques while having a blast. Instruction available for all types of skiers and experience levels from track and skate techniques to downhill control and telemark turns. This day is especially suited for those of us who never have enough time to ski as much as you'd like. Lunch included. 9am-3 pm. Please come between 9-9:15 if you need to rent or have a cup o' coffee or tea.
April 14-15 and 21-22 Spring Trail Days -.maybe do some skiing on whatever is left around the valley. Cafe will fire back up with soups and sammies. Mini keg of beer, bring your springy tools of fun.
Full Moon Skiing Trips are around each month's lunar glare Dec 10, Jan 9, Feb 7, Mar 8. We usually head out around 7:30 pm. There is a special magic to skiing when you can barely see.
NEW!!! Hash Harriers 