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Sleepy Hollow BKL Camps

Heather LaRocca, director of Sleepy Hollow BKL, hosts a couple summer camps each summer. She has extended her camp invitation to any MNC BLK families that want to join. All the info is below.

Sleepy Hollow Summer Camps 2024

SLAMMIN’ OUTDOOR CAMP: Get outside and adventure in Sleepy Hollow’s 850 acres of forest and trails! We head out on the trails every day to explore the natural world around Sleepy with a new outdoor theme every day, including forest, stream and pond studies. We also do fun outdoor activities every day- hiking, mountain biking, swimming and more!  Campers can expect a fun week outside packed with activities, art projects and games.

Ages: 8-12 years old

Cost: $300 per camper

Weeks: July 22nd – 26th OR July 29th – August 2nd

Time: 9:00 am – 3:30 pm

SUMMER SKI CAMP: Spend the week outside at Sleepy Hollow’s 850 acres of forest and trails, with running, hiking, mountain biking, rollerskiing*, swimming and more! The camp is geared towards kids that are excited to try some summer nordic summer training. We get out on the trails every day and do activities, art projects and games too, all with the focus of summer fun outside! *Rollerskis not needed- we team up with NENSA for rollerskiing, and they provide a fleet for us to use.

Ages: 10-14 years old

Cost: $300 per camper

Weeks: July 15th – 19th

Time: 9:00 am – 3:30 pm

Go to the Sleepy Hollow Summer Camps webpage for the registration link.

Great Skiing at Tomasi’s & Other places

Don’t put away the skis yet! Mother Nature is now giving us lots of snow and there are places to ski and enjoy.

March 22, 2024, 4 pm:  Ken Bruce reports that Tomasi Meadows is groomed with some great tracks. Peter Davis plans to groom more after the storm too. Get out and enjoy another great ski!

Other places that are still grooming & getting lots of snow:

Sleepy Hollow- reporting 7 km groomed trails today. Check the website before you go.

Trapps- reports from MNC skiers & Trapps’ website is that they have great skiing. Full on winter conditions! The cabin & ski shop are still open.

Bolton- take your backcountry skis and be ready to wade through some powder!

BKL Awards Practice Recap

With the end of the season fast approaching held our end of season awards practice and celebration at the Range on Thursday, March 6th.

Activities included a huge game of Everyone is it Tag, all our groups handed out Paper Plate Awards, Edible Medals and our special new pins.

We had a great ski season and everyone made many new ski friends!

photos by BKL parents and coaches

We are MNC BKL!

 

Edible medals for all!

And skiers in each group got one of our new pins- penguins, jack rabbits, arctic foxes and wolves (for racers).

 

Not much snow for our last practice, so skiers, coaches and parents all played a hilly game of Everyone is it Tag.

 

Rock Paper Scissors with new ski friends.

 

 

 

Spring Skiing at the BLK Festival

This year the BKL Festival was March 2 +3 hosted by Frost Mountain Nordic at Rikert Outdoor Center in Ripton, VT. We were luck to have this event so close to home for a second year in a row (Craftsbury in 2023). Mansfield Nordic Club BKL brought 38 skiers this year. We had kids skiing in the Nordic Adventure, lollipop races all the way up to the Grade 7/8 races. And it was a great combination of skiers participating in their first BKL Fest to others that have raced every single year.

In addition to some super fast racing, weekend highlights included trying out biathlon, skiing the mini marathon, lots of jumping, face glitter, racing through puddles and disappearing snow. We had an awesome MNC tent hang out spot with hot drinks and food.

Thanks to our skiers, families and coaches for fun weekend!

BKL Festival Recap from NENSA
Photos from Josh Hummel
Results
Coach Adam’s Post BKL Fest and Graduates

Grade 7/8 boys spectating under the umbrella

 

Walking together in the Festival Parade!

Wax techs in training!

Th Pig Race is this Saturday 3/16!!

The Pig Race is the infamous end of season race at Blueberry Hill in Goshen, VT. It is a very fun event!

Here are some details about the event. We can’t wait!

  • Day of Race registration and check in will be in the Outdoor Center starting at 10 am. This will be your zone for leaving belongings, bathrooms, etc.,
  • The 2km kids race will start at 11, and everyone else at ~11:30. The Pig Race is self-timed. We’ll have a big timing clock if you don’t have a watch, and also make Strava segments for the competitive types. You’ll write your name and time down right when you cross the finish line.
  • We’ll serve pizza n’ pig around 1pm-~3pm.
  • A map of the short course and long course can be found at these links. The course will be well marked with pink flagging tape and signs at intersections.
  • This will be good old-fashioned VT spring skiing! Expect water bars and muddy sections. Don’t bring your best (or second best, or third best) skis–old fish scales are your best bet, or wooden skis with pine tar. Feel free to hike/run the course as well if you prefer, or take skis off for sections! All obstacles except some water bars will be optional 🙂 The Pig Race is about embracing whatever winter throws at us, and acknowledging that we don’t need perfect conditions to enjoy all that VT has to offer. There are some pics of current conditions on our Instagram.
  • We will have Red Clover Ale Company beer for sale. Please bring cash or card and an ID if you plan on purchasing.
  • We still have some meal tickets available for friends and family. To make sure you get one, you can pre-order on Skireg. We’ll have some for sale day of as well.
  • Costumes encouraged!

Thank you for your support of the Blueberry Hill Outdoor Center! It’s been so fun to bring the Pig Race back this year. Our goal with this event is to have fun and break even so please consider an additional donation to the Outdoor Center if you are able–it will help us fund some more bridges for those water bars!

Feel free to reach out with any questions. See you soon.

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