With one week of training back home in Rossland following the Mammoth Camp, Team Black Jack is back at it for another hard training push at Frozen Thunder. The team travels to Canmore, AB each year to ski on this track made from stored snow from the previous year. The Frozen Thunder track is usually […]
After a summer of California Dreamin’, Team Black Jack headed down to Mammoth Lakes for the 4th annual instalment of the Mammoth Camp. After a short pickup in Reno, the team finally made it to the condo that we would call home for the next two weeks. With David and Daniel being the two returning […]
Black Jack Ski Club Trip to Mt Assiniboine Provincial Park July 25-30, 2016 By: Lukas Piggot (Track Attack) In the last week of July, some members of the Track Attack group from Black Jack Ski Club went on a hiking trip into Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park. The group consisted of six children, ranging in age […]
The Blackjack Ski Club and Team Blackjack are based in Rossland, BC. The Blackjack Ski Club has run successful elite programming for many years. In fact two Canadian Olympic team members grew up in Rossland and trained here in their junior years. Many skiers from the Blackjack club have won National Championships, and have represented […]
This year, the Western Canadian Championships were held in Prince George, BC. It began with a long drive to PG on Wednesday February 17th. Colin and David met the team in PG that night, and Simon Lapointe and Alexis Turgeon from Skinouk joined the team for the weekend. The next day, we headed out for […]
Once again, Black Jack is on fire with several top results at the Eastern Canadian Championships NorAm this weekend. Julien Lock is beginning to make a habit of winning the NorAm sprints with two back to back skate sprint GOLD medals! Locke has shown the strongest level of racing out of all the Canadians on […]
Jan 17, racers gathered from across the Kootenays to participate in the third Kootenay cup of 2016. The race was held in Nelson and racers were spread across 22 categories with years of birth ranging from after 2011 until before 1965. Blackjack’s first skier, Soleil Bitting, started her Bunnies category 0.4km race at 10:30. That […]
After two weeks spread out around the country, Team Blackjack’s Senior Men reunited for the Mont St Anne NorAm late January. For David, Colin and Scott the weekend was a great opportunity to collect NorAm points and put in some great distance races, while Julien’s full focus was aimed three weeks later at the U23 World […]
With the rest of Team Blackjack competing at the BC Cup in Vernon, Julien flew out east to race at the US National Championships. With fast skis from Rocky Mountain Racers, and fun times fun times staying with Club SkiNouk, the week in Houghton, MI was excellent preparation for the upcoming U23 Trials in Thunder Bay. […]
With the turn of the New Year comes everybody’s favourite, relaxing time: the world junior/under-23 trials. For the third time in six years, Thunder Bay played host to this climactic event. At this point, it shouldn’t come as surprise to anyone that temperatures in January in Thunder Bay are far from balmy. Team Black Jack […]
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