Trail Creek Cleanup

One of the biggest events of the month of October (besides Halloween) is Trail Creek Cleanup day!  We take the opportunity to fix up the cabin, prepare the trails, put up firewood, and batten down the hatches before winter hits.  Thank you to so many great volunteers who worked incredibly hard and accomplished numerous tasks including but not limited to: staining the cabin and wax building, chopping and stacking eight cords of firewood, mowing the trail at Beaver Ponds, pulling invasive weeds, fixing the ranch gate near Sam the Truck, pruning the apple tree in the stadium, removing the post for the groomer entrance, building a retaining wall in front of the Junior cabin, waxing hundreds of pairs of lease skis, cleaning the cabin after a summer ruled by the mice, and MORE!  

I think this might have been the most productive we have ever been at Trail Creek Cleanup and it is a testament to all of our great families who worked hard and made it happen.

In addition to the work done on Trail Creek Cleanup day, we have been hard at work preparing the trails and cabin for the upcoming winter.  A donor generously purchased a deck mower for the Club and we spent a week in October mowing all of the trails on all land designations with the help of club parent Braden Masselink's tractor.  We mowed many trails on USFS land for the first time ever (?), all trails on the Seiffert property, and in the fields.  Mowing the trails allows us to start grooming and skiing when there is less snow on the ground, which hopefully means an earlier season for all the kids in the club and community members!

We also received three full truckloads of wood chips from another Club parent's tree company who was removing some aspen trees for a client down the street.  We were able to get all the chips for free and spread them all around the cabin, which will mean less mud, more level footing for the machines and the bathrooms, and again less snow required to start grooming.

Turpin Camp Upcoming

Our biggest event of November is the Prep/Comp team's annual training camp over Thanksgiving Break at Turpin Meadows Ranch north of town.  Through the Blackrock Ranger District of the US Forest Service we have permits to groom trails on Togwotee Pass and the ability to ski at Turpin itself, so we have four potential areas in which we can ski across elevation bands.  This awesome setup often means we are some of the first skiers on snow in the West every year and we have always been able to ski no matter the conditions elsewhere.  We also have a great agreement with our partners at Turpin and we get to use their kitchen for cooking and the athletes get to stay in beautiful chalets.  This year we are planning on being there November 21-25, which will be an awesome trip!

Upcoming Events

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