In preparation for upcoming selection races at the US National Championships, Black Jack Ski Team has spent the past week in “Nordic Town USA” (Sun Valley, Idaho). Sun Valley is a beautiful area with rolling high altitude mountains and bluebird skies. The network of trails covers over 200KM of groomed trails. The variety of terrain from gentle to hard […]
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 […]
Black Jack Senior Team has just returned from a stunning two week altitude training camp at Nickel Plate Nordic. The early season tracks at Nickel Plate on November 13th were next to none. Big thanks to Murray Farbridge and Nickel Plate Nordic for the excellent work in getting top shape trails right from the get […]
I am very excited to share with you our training from the past three weeks. Everyone is now primed for the winter season after some great summer and fall training. It’s been a highlight being able to spend the majority of our training time on snow since mid October. Prior to our first real snow […]
The final blog post of our 2015 #mammothmagic (Mammoth Lakes Altitude Camp) has arrived! This week is full of a lot of great adventures and maybe the best road trip I have ever been on, so lets get going. Picking up where Daniel left off in week two; it got pretty cold, and at the […]
Week two of are high altitude training camp in Mammoth Lakes California and all athletes taking part in the camp are here. Days consist of long training hours roller skiing, running and road biking. As well as many recovery hours, we have kept on top of taking training photos but we haven’t taken a ton […]
Following the Revelstoke camp some of the Black Jack members such as Remi, Chiaki, Michaela, Sophie and the track attackers headed over to Kimberley for the weekend. Unfortunately Bronwyn and Sage were unable to attend the camp this year. The camp started off with a two hour bike ride, most people road biked but a […]
So, Mammoth again. Last year we had a couple heavily worded posts with a few pictures on the side. But if there’s one thing for which Black Jack is arbitrarily known, it’s variety. This time around, due to excessive pumpkin recipes from an 8kg fiendish squash and working on flexibility, we don’t have time to […]
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