The Silver Hares day started with a meeting in the NATC center.
There was coffee and cinnamon rolls and plenty of socializing. We played this video you can check out in this link which was the work of Rob Henderson and young Jackson Parker, it was very well received: Click Here to watch: Silver Hares Nordic
The video was followed by some discussion about this year’s subject for a Silver Hares donation: Madeleine Wilkie an extraordinary young woman, is a local XC skier who is chasing her dream to represent Canada at a world level and well on her way with our help. Coming out of the Olympic Trials held at Sovereign last week she is the youngest highest ranked skier. She # 7 nationally overall while just turned 18. She is the #1 eighteen-year-old and actually #2 under 23 year old. Canada is taking 6 women to this coming Winter Olympics so she almost made the team outright
SSASS- Last year’s SilverHares Donation
SSASS, (SilverStar Adaptive Ski School) brought up the sit ski we helped them purchase last season and we had a nice informative talk about it. Joachim Fritz the SSASS instructor walked us through the sit ski capabilities and demonstrated some of it hydraulic movements. A very cool custom $10,000 piece of equipment that will open up a whole world to those unable to access skiing any other way.
26 for 26
Our first Special activity coming up is the 26K ski for 2026. We meet in front of the Red Antler at 9am Thursday January 1st. Lunch and cookie finisher medal awards 1pm-2ish at the Black Pine restaurant.
The key is going to be: come rested, bring fuel and monitor your pace. People not used to distance skiing tend to start tooooo fast.
Please if you plan to ski with us let me know so I can share with Euna, she makes the finisher medals herself and they are delicious.