Welcome to our Ski Group
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My name is Cliff Keene, I retired from the Salmon-Challis Forest in 1998 and volunteered (timber database work) until the spring of 2000. I like to ski tour, telemark ski, and track ski. I still volunteer but now it’s to help maintain the ski trails. For the last several years, I’ve maintained an email mailing list to inform folks in the area about cross-country ski trips, and snow & weather conditions. As I add folks to the mailing list, I like to send them a “welcome message”. I then decided that it would be easier for all to publish this welcome message on my web site.
**In the past (1980’s & early 1990’s) we had a moderately active ski club here in Salmon called the Salmon Nordic Ski Association (SNSA). We spent quite a few hours volunteering to make a nice X-C Trail System near William’s Creek Summit (on the road to Cobalt). In the early 1990’s, with some assistance, I personally cut two of the trails SW of the Summit.
Tawna Skinner was the SNSA president. She often looked for others to take over as president, but there were no takers. Since the mid 1990’s the club has not been active. However in the late 1990’s we started an Email X-C Ski list and we started planning (almost) weekly trips. In the fall of 2001, I more or less took over the list. Except for Christmas weekend, we try to have a trip each week. I try and have a mix between Saturday and Sunday trips. We generally meet at the Stagecoach Inn Motel or the Forest Service/BLM Building for carpooling - usually about 09:30 - 10:00, depending on the trip. Our primary destinations are to the William’s Creek Cross Country Ski Area southwest of Salmon or to the Chief Joseph or Lost Trail Pass areas. A typical trip might be where we shuttle a vehicle to a lower spot and ski out and down some trail. Generally there are options so that beginning skiers have some alternatives.
**I also try to have at least one “Mid Week Ski”, often on Tuesday. This is as much for exercise as anything. I also check trail conditions and do minor trail maintenance. Call me at 756-2085 if you are interested. I also do quite a bit of maintenance in the fall before skiing starts. An on-going project is to create “by-passes” around some of the steeper slopes to aid less experienced skiers.
To some extent our informal mailing list is filling the void from the SNSA.
At one time most of our skiers were Forest Service folks, but now we cover quite a range. Currently I have about 70 on the list although we seldom have more than a half dozen for most trips.
I try to send out a “ski report” once a week. If you don’t want to receive one, just let me know. I can easily add you again, if you only want to be off temporarily. Almost all ski reports are also published on the web. I won’t publish my main email address on the web but you can send a “reply” to any email that I send you. If you can’t find my email address you can use my Yahoo address which is “ckeene41-a4” followed by the commercial at symbol and “yahoo.com” (without the quotes). I’ve broken this up for anti spam purposes. You can also call me at (208) 756-2085. In addition your email address will not be shown on any web page and it won’t be shown on the email. I send all group messages using the “blind copy” feature. This is to prevent your address from getting spammed.
To find out more information about ski trips, and skiing you can remember or bookmark (favorite) my homepage at http://home.custertel.net/~ckeene41/ - Scroll down and you’ll find the following links. #’s 4 -6 relate to skiing:
1. Birding, Nature, and
Related World Wide Web Links (URL's)
2. Iditarod
Sled Dog Race
3. Forest Fire,
Smoke Image, and Fire Map Links
4. Cliff's Salmon
Idaho Cross Country Ski and Snow Conditions Page Ski Links & General
Info. 1/
5. The latest Planned
Ski Trips, weather and Trail Conditions Report - An expanded version
of my email “Ski Report”.
6. Previous Trips
WeBLOG. Currently for 2007/2008 Season. See below for other
years.
For an Idea of what our trips are like you can go to our “PREVIOUS
TRIP REPORTS”:
Winter 2003 –
2004
Winter 2004 –
2005
Winter 2005 –
2006
Winter 2006 –
2007
* Winter
2007 – 2008 Same as # 6 above.
A few other links found in
the above web pages include:
** General Description of
Local X-C Ski Trails - http://www.salmonchamber.com/recreation-winter.htm
(Includes a description of all local winter recreation).
Cliff's Lost Trail – Chief Joseph Pass Ski Trails
Sites: 1/
Chief
Joseph Pass Groomed Trails Map Chief
Joseph Pass Un-Groomed Touring Trails Map Un-Groomed Trail Segment
Table
Cliff's Williams Cr. Ski Trails Sites: 1/
Trail
Descriptions Trailhead
Locations Trail Map
Trail
Segment table
1/ Go to the “General” Cross Country Ski & Snow conditions page for information on Lost Trail and Chief Joseph Pass areas and for a few added links regarding the William’s Cr. Area.
New skiers should probably review My Introduction
to Cross-Country Skiing 101 page:
http://home.custertel.net/~ckeene41/IntroToXc101.htm
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Previous Update: 01/18/2007 16:05 PM
Latest Update 12/20/2007 16:05 PM
Update includes: Updating links to 2006-2007 & 2007-2008 Ski Trip. Adding
links to new Chief Joseph area maps.
Minor Edit (see **) 10/08/2008
