Alaska – Ski Center

2017 Tour of Anchorage Returns on Sunday

Ski CenterFebruary 28, 2017

(Press release) The newest installment of the community’s biggest ski event marks 100 years of ski racing in Anchorage ANCHORAGE – Nordic skiers from around Alaska and beyond will celebrate snow and 100 years of ski racing in our community at the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage’s premier event, the Tour of Anchorage on Sunday, March 5. This year’s event will also mark the first traditional Tour in three years – low snow the past...

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APU Women’s Elite Ski Team Recipient of National Grant From the Women’s Sport Foundation

Ski CenterNovember 10, 2015

APU Women’s Elite ski team recipient of national grant from the Women’s Sport Foundation http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/en/sitecore/content/home/programs/travel-and-training-fund/recipients/2015-travel-and-training-fund-recipients.aspx The Alaska Pacific University Nordic Ski Center Women’s Elite team is honored to be a recipient of the Women’s Sport Foundation Travel and Training grant. APU Women’s Elite team was 1 of 33 Grant Recipients for the 2015 year (30 individual grant recipients and 3 team recipients nationally). This grant will offset the individual athlete’s expenses of on snow glacier camps at APU’s Lowell Thomas...

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Fairbanks Training Camp and First Tracks Ski Camp – APU Report

Ski CenterNovember 8, 2011

With barely an inch on the ground, it would have been hard to scrape up enough to make a snowball. And yet there it was, 30k of remarkably groomed trails. The crazy thing about the Birch Hill Cross Country Ski Area in Fairbanks, Alaska is how little snow accumulation it takes for the skiing to be great. The trail surfaces are very smooth, and mostly covered with organic peat, so skis really only need a...