What a terrific turnout tonight! Look at all these happy faces! Much to our surprise the conditions and temperature was fantastic! We had a perfect split between snowshoer’s and xc-skiers!

How great it was to see our mtn. biker ‘chicks’ break snow with us. A great union and some good laughs.

Some encouragement for those of you who are still needing that push out the door.

1. Half the battle is getting to the playing field! Just Go. Don’t think about it, pack the morning of or the night before. When the end of the night rolls around you will love that you came out!

2. If you think you can’t keep up or you will hold ‘chicks’ back, think again. This is a no drop program. We’ll make sure you are having fun, learning, improving fitness and feeling good about any level you may be sitting at.

3. We expect you to be ready to play and each week we hope you don’t assume your limitations: experience them. Get a couple of good hikes, walk/jogs or any other fitness activity in to help improve your overall fitness capacity two other time each week, so that each excursion we can take you just a bit beyond the week before.

4. Footwear is key for comfort. Wear wool socks, solid fitting boots, hiking boots for snowshoeing and well fitted boots for xcs. Some women are having problems with blisters and it has everything to do with your footwear not the snowshoe. Use duck tape over a bandaid on the heel or blistered areas prior to putting your wool ski socks on and that will help prevent further issues next week.

5. Be prepared. we hope to give you the best overall experience out there. your help is appreciated by being loaded and ready to leave Venture Gear promptly @ 5:30pm.

Snowshoe Rentals should be reserved by phone
250-979-4327 prior to our Wednesday night launch, especially if you are certain you are coming. ‘Chicks’ is growing and we would hate to have you show up and not have gear for you. Consider popping in to Venture Gear at lunch that day to pick up your gear. The good news is we’ll get the gear back for you the next day. (man you have it good!)

6. Bring exact change(cash) for pass $5 and pass and rentals $15. This makes the process of getting on the trails so much easier. We will do a head count at the start, we’ll make one transaction and collect all the funds for payment.

7. Bring a friend...you may very well be just the person who, as Laura so eloquently put it last night: “changed my lifestyle right around!”

…and finally, let us know what you think about our program, your experience and anything else that might inspire someone else to ‘chick it out’. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter or comment right here on our blog!

Thank you for your great participation and to our coaches Cory $ Liz our great sponsors: Team Fitness Personal Training, Venture Gear and Quality Greens

See you on the snowy trek next week!

We encourage most to x-country ski since there is very little snow on the snowshoe trails this evening!

Reminder: Dress appropriately in layers for tonights trek. And, bring along your headlamps if you do decide to snowshoe!

To make the transition with the purchase of rentals and/or passes please bring exact change.
$15 for rental and pass
$5 for pass only

Meet @ Venture Gear to shuttle car pool, promptly ready to depart at 5:30 gear loaded. We hope to be on the trails at 6:15. Westsiders meet at telemark.

COME ‘CHICK’ IT OUT!

Mild temperatures had the chicks sweating it out on the trails tonight! Shoe chicks used their orienteering skills along with glute power to push the pace. Thanks to Venture Gear for awesome equipment. Double thumbs up on the tubbs snowshoes!

Ski chicks braved less than perfect conditions after awesome instruction from our in house instructor. Thanks Cory! All n all, we had a fun night, met some new chicks, engaged in a fitness fresh air workout and no major casualties! What goes on tour stays on tour!

We hope to see you out next week. Those renting equipment should be at Telemark well before 6 as staffing is limited in the evening.

Thanks for making time to ‘chick it out’

Tonight! X-country conditions at Telemark are not overly suitable for ‘true’ beginners (ie never on skiis) however; we are encouraging you all to come out tonight for a lesson and learning evening. All other levels come prepared to go for a fitness boot. Temperature is -4 today, however, will decline as the sun does. So dress appropriately in layers.

SNOWSHOEING: we will attempt to hit the snowshoe trails tonight, so bring your shoes and headlamp. If the trail is too hard packed we can opt out to cross country ski; however I am very optimistic that we’ll get a snowshoe trek in.

Meet @ Venture Gear to shuttle car pool, promptly ready to depart at 5:30 gear loaded. We hope to be on the trails at 6:15. Westsiders meet at telemark.

COME ‘CHICK’ IT OUT!

Tonight! Poor conditions at Telemark have pushed our ‘chicks’ plan indoors. We want your first experience with the ‘chicks’ to be a positive one. Lack of snow and potential slick conditions on the trails has halted tonight’s ski.

Since you had the night booked off anyway join us for a ‘chicks’ bevy and bowl night tonight 6-8PM @ McCurdy Bowl! We have an overwhelming response to this program and this will give us a great opportunity to meet all those who couldn’t make it to the ‘open house’ last week @ Venture Gear.

We can determine our numbers and assess the prospect of having both snowshoe and x-country ski groups every week rather than alternative sports weekly! Meet the rest of the chicks and get into the groove of Wednesday night activity.

Please RSVP ASAP, yeah or nay so we can reserve some lanes for a couple of games! Same cost: same time. Meet at Venture Gear @ 5:30 or see you at McCurdy Bowl (Grand 10) @ 6pm! COME ‘CHICK’ IT OUT!

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