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Fall Weekend Trail Help * Plan on every November sat/sun with bridge building, glade clearing, ditch digging, downfalls, brushing, and overall tuning of the trails. We will provide lunch and follow up snacks and goodies at day’s end. Please email us about your plans, nice way to give back to the mountains.
November 25 2012 Evergreen Wreath Making Workshop - Join us for an afternoon of fun learning how to make your own holiday wreath. Bring a hand prunner and any decorations or adornments you'd like to add to your wreath. We'll have all the materials you'll need including a variety of firs to construct your very own piece of artwork. We'll get started at 1pm and be around all afternoon. If needed contact Dave Saville daves@labyrinth.net
December 1- 2 2012 31st Annual Jack Frost Celebration - Help open up the season in honor of one our favorite snowy characters. Sunday brunch with adventure tours round out the weekend. Bring a dish to share Saturday eve and we will provide the refreshments.
Dec 16 (cancelled) Special Olympics Coaches Training- A refresher to get the season started and prepare for the Special Olympics in Jan.
Dec. 23 Snowshoe Discovery Tour 1 pm - A natural history snowshoe walk with Chip Chase as he shares his knowledge about the climate, forest type, and geology of the area. Enjoy a short streamside jaunt that lasts about an hour and covers around a mile of easy rolling terrain.
Jan 1 2013 New Year's Day Carefree Snowshoe Tour - 10 am Your chance to appreciate the simple beauty of snowshoeing. Natural history and local lore are featured.
Jan 6 Snowshoe Discovery Tour: 10 am "Coolest" wildlife species that over winter in the Valley, species like golden eagles, fishers, golden kinglets, ravens, pygmy shrews, snowshoe hares. I'd like at the end of the walk for folks to know more about the unique species of the high elevation spruce-northern ecosystem that they may only see if they are quiet, lucky, and aware while out in the woods. Understand some of the different adaptations these species have to survive a typical freezing snowy Canaan Valley winter. Co lead by Casey Rucker, amazing local ornithologist and Amy Cimarolli a forester and scientist for The Nature Conservancy in WV.
Jan 12 Women's Winter Ski Day Refresh or pick up some new ski techniques. Instruction available for all types of skiers and experience levels from track and skate techniques to downhill control and telemark turns. Lunch included. 9am -3 pm. (new info up soon)
Jan 12 Winter Trails Day - Free lessons/clinics and rentals to all first time interested skiers or snowshoers. XC lessons every hour and a 10 am and 2 pm clinic on types of snowshoes, clothing, basic techniques, and outdoor winter snow travel followed by a natural history tour on snowshoes into our neighboring National Wildlife Refuge.
Jan 13 Snowshoe Discovery Tour: 10 am Casey Rucker leads Winter Bird Adventure Learn what it takes to survive winter in Canaan Valley without heat, light and running water. We will take a leisurely snowshoe walk in Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge and look for the hardy birds that make it through our snowy winters, while learning about the strategies they use when the snow flies, the wind howls and the thermometer drops below zero.
Jan 19-20 NATO Telemark Workshop Vermont's Dickie Hall and staff come to WG with down to earth telemark instruction. This course will likely leave you with a new bright direction in your skiing.
Jan 19 Parent's Kids Clinic Ski lessons for our littlest skiers! Parents and children ages 3-5. Morning session from 10:00-11:00. What does every skiing parent want for their children? Good health, happiness, and of course a love of skiing. We'll engage your youngest skier in games and activities that will make them beg you to go skiing again. Plus parents will learn how to play skill-based games with your little ones. BB Biathlon 1 PM
Jan 20 5 Km Snowshoe Walk/Run - 1 pm Well organized by Helvetia, WV distance runner Dan Lehmann this event features a rolling course full of prizes and fun. Snowshoe rentals available for $8.
Jan 21 MLK Day Snowshoe Discovery Tour - 10 am with Chip Chase, owner of White Grass and lifelong outdoorsman sharing his knowledge of the area. Included is a history of the relationship with Fish and Wildlife Service and the formation of the Refuge here.
Jan 24-25 West Virginia Special Olympics Winter Games - Gathered are racers from three states, parents, coaches, volunteers, and helpers. This event will give back tenfold what is put in!
Jan 26-27 NSPS Division Nordic Training/Refresher with more advanced backcountry skiing on Jan 27. The refresher will include xc ski lessons and review and an SAR exercise to refresh all NSP nordic requirements. All nordic skiers (active and rusty) and those who want to be are invited. Contact: Penny Dimler, 703-425-2736, penny01new@gmail.com
Jan 26 Kids Clinic 9:30‐2 pm For Ages 6‐10 Morning session from 9:30‐11:30. Both beginner and experienced kids will have fun playing games, learning new skills and eating a delicious lunch from the White Grass Café. BB Biathlon 3 PM
Jan 27 25K Mountain State Marathon - 1 pm This rolling course never gives you a needed break or settle for a shortened version. Kid's classes, and great prizes. $20 entry fee. Fully groomed for classic or skate, sweet prizes, website splatter and personal glory.
Jan 27 Snowshoe Discovery Tour - Conifers and Man 10 am Focus on the history of the area and its interconnectectedness with the land. Discussion of trees, especially conifers, and their importance to man and wildlife will be included. Led by Bruce and Andy Dalton, Master Naturalists and strong supporters of the Canaan Refuge and White Grass.
Feb 1 Our Ground Hog's Day Ski (one day early) - 9am Our annual trek in search for clues to the rest of winter never seems to end. Full day backcountry journeys usually have no route in mind and end up a little lost.
Feb 2 Kids Clinic 9:30‐2 pm For Ages 6‐10 Morning session from 9:30‐11:30. Both beginner and experienced kids will have fun playing games, learning new skills and eating a delicious lunch from the White Grass Café. BB Biathlon 3 PM
Feb 2-3 NATO Telemark Adventure Tour - Guided instructional tours into the Dolly Sods and surrounding area with NATO staff.
Feb 3 Snowshoe Discovery Tour: (CANCEL) GPS Mappping Skills 10 am Rick Landenberger (can't make it) Changed to NATURAL HISTORY with Chip Chase, owner of White Grass and lifelong outdoorsman sharing his knowledge of the area as well as the history of the relationship with the Fish and Wildlife Service and the formation of the Refuge here.
Feb 9 Women's Winter Ski Day Refresh or pick up some new ski techniques. Instruction available for all types of skiers and experience levels from track and skate techniques to downhill control and telemark turns. Lunch included. 9am -3 pm.
Feb 10 Snowshoe Discovery Tour - 10 am Winter Tree Identification Learn how to identify common evergreen and deciduous trees during the winter by using simple observation techniques and field guides. This trip will explore the northern hardwood and spruce/fir forests that abound in Canaan Valley. Basic tree identification and ecology will be discussed along with other issues influencing our forested landscape. Trip led by Mike Powell – Manger of Stewardship for the Nature Conservancy in West Virginia
Feb 16 Parent's Kids Clinic Ski lessons for our littlest skiers. Parents and children ages 3-5. Morning session from 10:00-11:00. What does every skiing parent want for their children? Good health, happiness, and of course a love of skiing. We'll engage your youngest skier in games and activities that will make them beg you to go skiing again. Plus parents will learn how to play skill-based games with your little ones. BB Biathlon 1 PM
Feb 18 President's Day Snowshoe Discovery Tour - 10 am with Chip Chase, owner of White Grass and lifelong outdoorsman sharing his knowledge of the area as well as the history of the relationship with the Fish and Wildlife Service and the formation of the Refuge here.
Feb 21-22 PSIA XC Clinic with Randy French - 9am - 4 pm Tune up everything you know about skiing and teaching techniques you'll never forget. This is a PSIA event although any non beginner nordic skier that desires a full one day tune up clinic Feb 21 is the day. $45 for non PSIA skiers.
Feb 24 Snowshoe Discovery Tour - 10am Winter photography - Photo walk in the Canaan Valley Wildlife Refuge with photographers Martin Radigan and Marc Shaffer. They will introduce you to the basics of winter photography in a casual setting. Meet at Whitegrass. See their photos: martinradigan.com, marcshaffer.com.
Mar 3 - Natural History Discovery Tour 10 am with Chip Chase - A natural history snowshoe walk with Chip Chase as he shares his knowledge about the climate, forest type, and geology of the area. Enjoy a short streamside jaunt that lasts about an hour and covers around a mile of easy rolling terrain.
Full Moon Skiing Trips are around each month's lunar glare Dec 28, Jan 27, Feb 25, Mar 27. We usually head out around 7:30 pm. Good snow, suprising visibility, mysterious sense of control.
Discovery Tours of the past: GPS mapping skills, historic highlights of Canaan, winter photography, ecosystems beneath our feet, public lands, red spruce restoration, the northern flying squirrel, snow morphology, local railroad history, and animal tracking.
Will Announce Hash Harrier Events as they pop up
