Wood skis in Canadian Birkebeiner

I'm pretty sure I've read that there is a "wood ski club"
that ski the Birken in Norway on wood skis. But this year, in honour
of the 800th anniversary of the original "flight of the infant prince"
the Canadian Birkebeiner (near Edmonton, Alberta) has a special
class for wood skis:

http://www.canadianbirkie.com/woodskis.htm

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David Dermott , Wolfville Ridge, Nova Scotia, Canada
email:
WWW pages: http://www.dermott.ca/index.html

David Dermott wrote:
I'm pretty sure I've read that there is a "wood ski club"
that ski the Birken in Norway on wood skis. But this year, in honour
of the 800th anniversary of the original "flight of the infant prince"
the Canadian Birkebeiner (near Edmonton, Alberta) has a special
class for wood skis:

http://www.canadianbirkie.com/woodskis.htm

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David Dermott , Wolfville Ridge, Nova Scotia, Canada
email:
WWW pages: http://www.dermott.ca/index.html

According to website http://www.canadianbirkie.com the 2006 Candian
birkie has been cancelled.

David Dermott wrote:
I'm pretty sure I've read that there is a "wood ski club"
that ski the Birken in Norway on wood skis. But this year, in honour
of the 800th anniversary of the original "flight of the infant prince"
the Canadian Birkebeiner (near Edmonton, Alberta) has a special
class for wood skis:

http://www.canadianbirkie.com/woodskis.htm

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David Dermott , Wolfville Ridge, Nova Scotia, Canada
email:
WWW pages: http://www.dermott.ca/index.html

According to website http://www.canadianbirkie.com the 2006 Candian
birkie has been cancelled.

On 16 Jan 2006, xcwhite wrote:

According to website http://www.canadianbirkie.com the 2006 Candian
birkie has been cancelled.

Darn, what a disappointment! Lucky I didn't sign up!
An even bigger disappointment would be, after cancelling, if they get a
big snowfall in the next 3 weeks! (race was on Feb 11)

I knew there wasn't any snow there on Jan 3. I was skating/kicksledding
on Cooking Lake (about 10 km from Birkie trails) and there was only about
1 mm of either snow or rime frost (from ice fog) on the ice.

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David Dermott , Wolfville Ridge, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Skating in Alberta: http://www.dermott.ca/alb2005/fotos.html