Cross Country Skier

Any athlete or coach wants to improve their performance, whether it’s upping one’s mental game, learning new tactics to share with a team of aspiring champs or taking a different approach to strength training. The National Nordic Foundation’s (NNF) recently launched virtual Summer Speaker Series provides a chance to enhance your skills in any of… Read More »Why You Should Tune into NNF’s Summer Speaker Series

The U.S.’s newest national monument is inextricably tied to ski history. When President Biden traveled to the central Colorado Rockies in October to announce the 53,804-acre Camp Hale–Continental Divide National Monument, he honored the troops of the U.S. Army’s legendary 10th Mountain Division. These skiing soldiers, who battled in Italy’s Appenine Alps near the end… Read More »This National Monument Honors the Skiing Soldiers of Camp Hale

Last year, U.S. Ski Teamer Samantha “Sammy” Smith competed in two World Cups. But not two cross country World Cups. The 17-year-old Idahoan competed at the World Cup level in two entirely different sports.  First, Smith competed in soccer for the U.S. at the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in India last October—scoring two goals… Read More »Keep an Eye on Up-and-Comer Sammy Smith

If you were a 19th-century pioneer traveling across the American West, you knew how to take care of your gear. Tear a boot sole or jam a rifle barrel on the open plains and it was up to you to make the repair. In some cases, your family and livelihood may have even depended on… Read More »Simple Ways to Give Your Gear Some Love for the Long Haul

Matt Quann launched Ornot, his San Francisco–based company, in 2013 to give cyclists an alternative to becoming rolling billboards. The company typically trades in tasteful, darker-colored bike kits designed to weather trends (remember how flashy cycling clothing looked when Lance Armstrong was winning the Tour de France?) and the Bay Area’s notoriously changeable climate. Recently,… Read More »Keep Skiing in Mind with this Nordic-Inspired Bike Gear

Popcorn in hand, many of us sat down last Saturday to watch the Stifel Loppet Cup (a.k.a. the Minneapolis World Cup) on Outside Watch—the livestream service offered a free broadcast of the first domestic World Cup in 23 years. Within minutes, the questions were flying (and perhaps the popcorn). “Is skiing always on Outside now?… Read More »What Happened with the Minneapolis World Cup Broadcast Coverage?

The sun continued to shine at the Stifel Loppet Cup in Minneapolis on Sunday as American Gus Schumacher made history, skiing to victory in the 10km freestyle individual start at Theodore Wirth Park. He is the first American man to win a World Cup distance race in more than 40 years. Schumacher outlasted several highly… Read More »Schumacher Wins Loppet Cup 10km, Diggins Claims Third in Women’s Race

As the first day of the Stifel Loppet Cup dawned, with women’s and men’s sprints on the horizon, several questions hung in the air:  Will the Swedish women continue their utter dominance of the discipline?  Will Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo of Norway similarly lay waste to the men’s field and notch his 101st career victory? And, of course,… Read More »Sundling and Klaebo Win Loppet Cup Sprints in Minneapolis

A bald eagle soared against a bluebird sky, while six inches of fresh snow coated the Minneapolis landscape. This Friday afternoon at the Stifel Loppet Cup venue, the day before racing kicks off, was a fortuitous way to start a weekend of World Cup racing.  Despite a dearth of snow throughout the Midwest, the Loppet… Read More »Minneapolis World Cup Ready to Go

Jessie Diggins has always wanted to race a World Cup on home snow. This coming February, on trails that she raced as a junior near her hometown in Minnesota, the three-time Olympic medalist’s dream will come true. Minneapolis’s Theodore Wirth Park will host men’s and women’s freestyle sprints (Feb. 17), followed by 10-kilometer free individual… Read More »World Cup Races Come to North America in 2024