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Oregon Nordic Club PORTLAND CHAPTER SEPTEMBER 2017 Determined trail tenders on Meadows Creek On August 9, our determined group of nine-and-a-half did not let the warm weather deter us from our mission. We arrived at the Meadows Tie Trail and Ken Wenzel split up into three groups to divide and get the job done. Four of us started at the trail’s end on the Pocket Creek Road, looping off small trees and limbs. The other two started hanging diamonds. To our great surprise, Jim Thornton showed up and helped us loop for an hour and chatted about the Forest Service and how our club was doing. Jim wants to do an overnight trip to Tilly Jane this January with our club. When we got to the creek Jim said good bye and headed back to his truck. We continued on and completed our mission at about 2 p.m. We hung over 50 diamonds and looped off many hundreds of small trees. To finish the day we headed down to the stream cross- ing and had lunch with cold beverages. A job well done! Thanks Jim for coming down to visit. Members present: Kathy Burns, Greg Graham, Richard Crimi, Laurel Inside Dickie, Mary Hepokoski, Mary Bourret, Tere Enburg, 2 Upcoming Events John Fromwiller, and Ken Wenzel. 3 Volunteer Ken Wenzel, Trail Tending Opportunities 4 Day Tours Trail tender New overnight trip sign-up process Nordic Issues/News The process for signing up for an overnight trip this coming season (2017-18) has Mt. Hood NF totally changed. We have entered the twenty-first century, and all sign-ups will take place online at Trail and road closures onc-pdx.org. The online sign-up will open at 12:01 p.m. on October 4, shortly after the October 3 Gifford Pinchot NF Road hazards, Road 99 general ONC-PDX meeting. At that meeting, overnight trip organizers will present their trips and open answer questions. However, there will be no sign-ups happening at the meeting. In this way, we Deschutes NF can avoid the log jam and general confusion of previous “Overnight Trip Extravaganzas.” Fire closures If your desired trip fills up before you have a chance to sign up online, call the leader to be put on 5 Overnight Trips the wait list. Often people cancel, and spots open up throughout the season, so don’t give up. 2017-18 Overnight Trips All overnight trips are limited to ONC members. If you’re not currently a member of ONC-PDX, 8 Club Discounts you will able to join or renew online during the sign-up process. 11 Classified Ads This is the first time we’ve done strictly online sign-ups. We hope everything goes smoothly and easily. If there are glitches, we have a back up plan, which we’ll share, if necessary. The Overnight Trip Committee, the ONC-PDX Board and, of course, Bill Yaeger, our man behind our website, have all been working hard to plan trips, set up a trip calendar, test the website and anticipate problems. If you have comments or questions, please contact the Overnight Trip Committee at [email protected]. Ann Truax, Overnight Trips Committee Ken Wenzel Renew your membership It’s that time of year, September 1, ONC-PDX membership renewal time. Support your club, enjoy your club benefits, and be ready to sign up for overnight trips. We are now renew- Join us for a trail ing memberships online: go to our website onc-pdx.org, login, click on “Membership” then on tending party “Renew.” You will receive a reminder letter by “snail mail” early this month, but please make your See the schedule on p. 4 renewal online now. We look forward to the ski season. Membership Committee Board Members Ken Wenzel, UPCOMING EVENTS President 503.297.2958 Sept 5 TUESDAY Sept 27 WEDNESDAY [email protected] Lappland off-trail Discover the Owyhee Canyonlands [email protected] camping—Stenudden 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Clackamas REI. Mary Bourret, to Kvikkjokk Free! Info/sign-up: rei.com/learn.html Vice-President ONC-PDX monthly program Sept 30SUNDAY 503.201.3940 6:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m. National Public Lands Day [email protected] Lucky Lab, 1945 NW Quimby St. A nation wide fee-free day for more than 400 parks. Tim Kral, Treasurer Sept 7THURSDAY Info: nps.gov/planyourvisit/fee-free-parks.htm [email protected] Best Local Fall Hikes Scott Diamond, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Clackamas REI. Clinics & Training Secretary Free! Info/sign-up: rei.com/learn.html scott.diamond.mail@ Oct and NovS ATURD AY S Sept 11MONDAY gmail.com 2017 Fall XC Training Series Hoppy Adventure Hour: Lightweight Andrè Fortin Portland, OR Backpacking Basics [email protected] Schedule to be posted in mid-September for this 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Lucky Lab, Ted Scheinman year’s conditioning sessions for cross-country 503.452.7432 1945 NW Quimby St. skiers of all abilities. [email protected] Free! Info/sign-up: rei.com/learn.html Info: xcoregon.org teacupnordic.org Laurel Dickie Sept 23SATURDAY 503.287.6290 Sponsor by: Teacup Lake Nordic Club and SOLV Beach and Riverside Cleanup XC Oregon race team [email protected] 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. All along the Oregon Coast and Southwest Washington. Help clean up the beach and December 1–10FRI–SUN Committees rivers. Info: solveoregon.org 2017 Oregon Fall Camp Day Tours: Sept 23SATURDAY Mt. Bachelor, OR [email protected] Cape Horn Conservancy Work Party Start your ski season off with one of the best Laurel Dickie 10:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. Cape Horn, WA camps in the XC ski world! Features reliable early 503.287.6290 Celebrate National Public Lands Day with the Cape December skiing at Mt. Bachelor, top coaching, [email protected] Horn Conservancy, an all volunteer non-profit training lectures, and (optional) world-class Barbara Hayman dedicated to providing thoughtful stewardship of the physiology testing. Training lectures, wax clinics, [email protected] Cape Horn Trail and public lands in the Washougal to and video review socials will be held twice over the Scott Diamond Stevenson corridor in WA. Free! Info/sign-up: camp period. Campers can attend any of those scott.diamond.mail@ capehornconservancy.org/volunteer.html programs regardless of whether you ski that gmail.com Sept 25MONDAY continued on sidebar page 3 particular morning. Designed specifically for adult Hoppy Adventure Hour with XC skiers and racers with skills anywhere from low adventurer Katie Crafts intermediate to expert. 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Lucky Lab, Registration is open. (select any date combination EDITORIAL NOTES 1945 NW Quimby St. Katie Crafts left her office job and and number of days) The deadline for “fine” life to chase a dream of working in Antarctica in Info: xcoregon.org/oregon-fall-camp submissions is 2014. Free! the 15th of the Info/sign-up: rei.com/learn.html month (for the next month’s publication). Send submissions to [email protected] Oregon Nordic Club Portland Chapter Member Benefits as a Microsoft Word Formed as a nonprofit volunteer organization in 1968 Free day tours; overnight trips, exclusively for members document (no format- Clinics and lessons ting i.e., no bold text, all by Nordic ski enthusiasts interested in using public Discounts at selected merchants caps text, tabs or other (see page 8) lands for recreational cross-country skiing, the settings) in Times Member rates on Mazama activities (excludes classes) Roman as a attachment Portland Chapter of the Oregon Nordic Club grew to and use of Mazama Lodge: day use, overnight (preferred); compatible and meals over 550 members. The Portland Chapter is one of Free Tilly Jane A-Frame weekends during the ski season text files as an attach- twelve chapters in the state. With activities year round, Meet new friends who ski, hike and bike ment; and put text in an Monthly newsletter with free classified ads e-mail with no formatting. the Portland Chapter is dedicated to promoting Support of construction and maintenance of winter trails Corrections: e-mail in the Mt. Hood and Gifford Pinchot National Forests corrections and/or greater participation in and understanding of the Membership in Northwest Ski Club Council, Far West Ski additions to the editor. value of outdoor recreation with an emphasis on Association and Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs. This newsletter is Discounts/benefits: nwskiers.org fwsa.org published monthly by: Nordic and backcountry skiing. In addition we hike, federationofwesternoutdoorclub.org Portland Chapter of the climb, backpack and bicycle year round in the northwest Memberships are renewed September 1 each year: Oregon Nordic Club, Inc. $29 for single, $35 for family/household. Join on the P.O. Box 3906 forests, mountains, and in town. website. Info: [email protected] Portland, OR 97208 2 September 2017 Oregon Nordic Club Portland Chapter onc-pdx.org Terry Owen, Wednesday VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES ONC-PDX BOARD SKI TRACKS ski tours Tour leaders There is an ongoing need for [email protected] It is hard to believe that in a few short individuals to all levels of day tours. Membership: months, we will be out skiing and enjoying the Ted Scheinman Nordic Issues Track issues relevant to Nordic winter again. But while it is still hotter then biscuits 503.452.7432 skiing in the state. Examples: Cooper Spur land swap, and the forest fires are ragging, I am sitting here [email protected] Forest Service proposed changes, etc. thinking of the complaints I have heard about ONC- Susan Kelly 503.706.6463 PDX and my goals for this year is to try and make Tilly Jane A-Frame There is a need in a number of areas.