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Crater Lake Trip

The weather was perfect for the annual Crater Lake overnight trip.  26 club members enjoyed skiing and snowshoeing, and lots of snow, Feb 24 to 26.  Heavy snow made the

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Snowshoe at Edison

Five snowshoers braved a cold, snowy morning to head up to Edison Butte Sno-Park to walk along the almost 5 mile Tesla Snowshoe Loop. The snow fell pretty steadily for

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Snowshoe of Swampy Long Loop

February 18 Snowshoe of the Swampy Sno Park Long Loop with a Side Trip to the Nordeen Shelter A group of seven snowshoers headed out on the Long Loop trail out

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Lower Berley Lake Ski

Eight CONC skiers ventured from Santiam Pass to Lower Berley Lake and back on Thursday, February 16, 2023.  The route generally followed the Oregon Skyline Trail through a young forest

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CONC Ski Lessons

Three different sessions of CONC Ski Lessons happened in February. A huge thanks to all of the instructors and volunteers.  Special mention goes to Woody Keen and Mark Waters, who

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Anthony Lakes Trip

A new overnight trip was added to the Calendar this year — Anthony Lakes, Feb 8 to Feb 12.  The trip was so popular that, after the official lodging filled

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Mazama Overnight Trip

The annual club trip to Mazama was a huge success.  Thanks to Debbie Frankenberger for submitting this report and the photos. Twenty-one CONC members traveled to Mazama, Washington the week

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Bluebird Day at Todd Lake

With abundant sunshine, any prognosticating rodent that poked its head out of its burrow near Todd Lake on Groundhog Day definitely would have seen its shadow. Thus, we should be

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Windswept Ski at Swampy Lakes

“Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day” had nothing over on the intrepid group of CONC skiers last Sunday.  As relayed by trip organizer Jerry Sebestyen, the winds at Swampy

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Slow Sunday Ski Jan. 22

As you can see it was a excellent bluebird day up at Dutchman Flat. There were seven of us all together. Some were regulars on the Sunday skis but we

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Snowshoe Trail Maintenance

The Snowshoe Trail Maintenance crew, under the leaderhsip of Bob Timmer, has had a busy and productive January! The first two Tuesday work sessions focussed on the snowshoe trails at

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Ski Trail Maintenance

Contributed by Sue Sullivan With the holidays over, the trails volunteers are getting back out to get a few projects completed on the ski and snowshoe trials. On January 11

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Off Trail at Wanoga

January 19, 2023 Seven skiers joined Laura Seaver, Eric Ness, and Gary Elnan for a beginner friendly, off-trail ski at the Wanoga Sno Park. The conditions were perfect, with blue

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Southern League Jamboree

Saturday, January 7, 2023 Contributed by Eric Ness The Central Oregon Nordic Club is a sponsor of the Southern League Jamboree nordic ski race at Diamond Lake.  Bend High Schools,

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January Board Meeting

January 9, 2023 The January Board meeting is the time when any newly elected officers are officially recognized, and all At-Large members (appointed by the elected Board members) are either

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New Year’s Day Ski 2023

To ring in 2023, a baker’s dozen of CONC skiers gathered on crisp and sunny morning at the “new” carpooling location at Thump Coffee in NW Crossing. The New Year’s

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Firewood Stacking October 2022

Gary Elnan coordinated the firewood delivery and stacking to the shelters this year.  Here is a photo collage of efforts at Nordeen, Swampy, and Swede shelters.

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Dutchman Reroute

The snow has barely begun to fly, and we have seen some confusion with a new snowshoe trail on Dutchman. The issue is that the old ski trail went straight,

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Dry Canyon Hike

John Sweat led a hike on Thursday, Oct. 27 up Dry Creek Canyon.  The approach was a bit confusing as the trailhead is beyond an ODOT gravel pile, and down

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Misty Mountain Hike

No one can deny that the weather was “interesting” when five CONC members ventured out into the mists for a hike on September 29th.  Led by Kelly Cleman and Roz

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Alder Springs 2023

Ann Padget led a hike with Pat Moen on Tuesday, September 27, to Alder Springs and onto the confluence of Whychus Creek with the Deschutes.  This hike requires a crossing

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Mt Scott & Tenas Lakes

Eight CONC members, led by Kelly Clemon and Roz O’Donoghue, hiked the Tenas lakes-Scott Mtn-Hand lakes loop on Tuesday, September 20, 2022. This 10 mile hike featured several lakes, a

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Snowshoe Trail Work for Fall 2022

Dennis DeLapp, Mike Bodel, Dave Alward  and I made great progress Tuesday on implementing the new Dutchman Tie Snowshoe trail. It was a nice partly cloudy, smoke-free day following a

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Around Swampy Lakes

The Cedar Creek fire dashed the group’s hopes for hiking to Sisters Mirror Lake due to trailhead closures. So several hikers decided to head to the Swampy Lakes trailhead and

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New Trails and Grants

Last fall, the Forest Service gave Central Oregon Nordic Club approval to proceed with work on about ten miles of new and rerouted ski and snowshoe trails on the Deschutes

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Black Crater

On August 16, a beautiful clear summer day, John Sweat had four hearty souls join him on the steady climb up to Black Crater.  Once at the summit everyone enjoyed

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Bridge-Be-Gone

On Wednesday August 10,  Charlie Kearns led several members of Central Oregon Nordic Club (CONC) on a major trail maintenance project.  They were joined by three Forest Service personnel and lots

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Four-In-One Cone

Two weeks ago, John Fertig secured a wilderness permit for August 2 to allow six people to hike to Four-In-One Cone.  Half of the group met in Bend and carpooled

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Yapoah Crater

The group of 7 hikers met up at the trailhead for an early start to the hike, led by Kelly Cleman.  The temperature was predicted to get up above 100

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Crescent Mountain 2022

The group hike John Sweat was leading up to Crescent Mt. had no takers, so he went solo.  It started as a rather balmy ascend to the summit with no

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