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CONC skiers could do a little of everything on a sunny spring Sunday, March 17 – make turns on compressed but not icy snow, ski

Nine skiers took advantage of fresh powder for a ski out of Swampy Lakes Sno-Park on Sunday, March 10. The group went up Ridge trail

CONC skiers had their choice of a ski with a waterfalls view or a ski up a ridge for mountain views on Sunday, March 3.

By Shari Hogshead A group of 17 CONC skiers headed to Ketchum/Sun Valley, Idaho, in February for a week of Nordic skiing on the many

Eighteen Central Oregon Nordic Club skiers enjoyed a powder-snow ski on Sunday, Feb. 17, on the Paulina Lake loop. “Highlights included a stop to view

By Ron Hoyt For the 18th year, CONC members traveled to the Methow Valley in Washington for five days of skiing, socializing, and, of course,

Nine skiers with the Central Oregon Nordic Club headed to Upper Three Creeks Sno-Park on Sunday, Feb. 10, to ski to the Jeff View shelter.

One of the missions of the Central Oregon Nordic Club is to help people learn to ski or improve their skills. Volunteer instructors did just

Riddle: what do you get when you combine wind storms and trees weakened by a beetle infestation? Answer: Work that never ends. Heavy winds blew

Central Oregon Nordic Club volunteers are in the process of erecting “you are here” signs at intersections of ski and snowshoe trails out of Swampy

CONC skiers had a Super Ski to Todd Lake on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 3, thanks to several inches of fresh powder. “There were eight

Seven CONC members snowshoed from Swampy Lakes Sno-Park on Sunday, Jan. 28. “It was a pleasant walk in ridiculously warm weather for January,” says group

A CONC Meetup hiking group trekked in the Badlands east of Bend on Sunday, Jan. 27. Group leader Raymond Daruszka planned an outing to explore

Group leader Linda Frost called it “summer in January” as a slew of CONC hikers opted to hike the Old Tumalo Canals north of Tumalo

By Shari Hogshead Sometimes thoughts turn to summer on these snowy winter days, which makes me look back fondly on last summer’s CONC easy hiking

Only one thing was missing when a dozen CONC skiers made their way to the expanse below Broken Top on Thursday, Jan. 17, and that

Sometimes we worry life will give us a lemon, but we end up getting lemonade instead. Four CONC skiers struck out from Mt Bachelor Ski

Nobody can accuse Central Oregon Nordic Club members of using the weather as an excuse to sit on the couch all day. With no recent

Longtime Central Oregon Nordic Club member Larry Weinberg will be giving a talk and showing photos of his trekking trip to Nepal. The presentation will

The Central Oregon Nordic Club is sponsoring three ski clinics for skiers of different abilities on the first two weekends of February. All dates are

Snow keeps piling up in the Cascades, so CONC ski groups keep hitting the trails. One of the biggest contingents, with seven skiers, did Nordeen

Wind storms between Christmas and New Year’s Day left volunteers with the Central Oregon Nordic Club hitting ski and snowshoe trails on an almost daily

Skiers got an early Christmas gift – lots of fresh powder. More than three feet of snow fell up at Mt. Bachelor in the last

Eleven CONC skiers braved less-than-perfect weather but had an “excellent day” anyway on Sunday, Dec. 16. Despite the potential for rain, the group skied the

A tireless band of CONC snowshoe trail volunteers went on their final scheduled work party of 2018 on Monday, Dec. 17, this time heading out

A dozen volunteers hit the woods again to clear blowndown trees from snowshoe trails, this time on the Swampy Long Loop and Nordeen Tie snowshoe

Eight skiers did a CONC Meetup ski on Wednesday, Dec. 5. “The snow is no longer ‘perfect’ and new, but it is great for touring,”

Winter is here, so the Central Oregon Nordic Club is going ahead with plans for its annual trip to Crater Lake National Park on Martin

Volunteers removed 19 blowdown trees from the Porcupine Snowshoe Trail on Monday, Dec. 3. “Bit chilly at the start of the day, but blue sky

The start of the trails to Todd Lake – once leaving the common corridor area at Mt. Bachelor — have been reconfigured in an effort

Central Oregon Nordic Club members found fluffy, fresh powder on the first ski trips of the year Sunday, Dec. 2, whether they were at a

Nine Central Oregon Nordic Club members returned to a classic Central Oregon hike at Smith Rock State Park on Sunday, Nov. 25. “We hiked two

Central Oregon Nordic Club members hiked to Flatiron Rock in the Oregon Badlands Wilderness on Sunday, Nov. 25. “We got blue sky, a warm enough

One mid-morning hiking group trekked to Lower Berley Lake, while another went to the Metolius River on Sunday, Nov. 18. “Six CONC hikers traveled a

The team preparing area snowshoe trails cleared more than 50 blowdown trees in the region of Edison Sno-Park on Monday, Nov.12, and volunteers have made

It won’t be long now. There’s some snow – although not a lot – on the ground near Mt. Bachelor, so volunteers with the Central