Events planned for 2024-2025 season

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The 8th Annual Great Fernie Pumpkin Hunt

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The Fernie Nordic Society is excited to be hosting one of our community’s favourite events of the year! This popular event is open to the general public and is aimed at children up to 9 year old and their family.

What to expect?

When: Saturday, October 19, 2024
Where: Elk Valley Nordic Centre next to Mt Fernie Provincial park
Cost: $10 per pumpkin. Tickets can be purchased at The Guide’s Hut on 2nd Ave. (Exact cash only please)
Choose one of 2 Time Slots: 11am-12pm or 12:30pm-1:30pm

  • Fun searching for your favourite pumpkin!
  • Hot chocolate (bring own mug), bbq food by donation
  • Emily Park Photography & more!
  • Prize for best costume

11th Annual Community Fun Event

Several participants in a previous event

The Community Fun Event is returning on Saturday February 22, 2025 on the trails of the Elk Valley Nordic Centre. The event is open to everyone, club members and non-members alike.

Read all the details HERE

6th Annual Fernie Flying Viking Challenge

How about a fun challenge for yourself and your friends? Ski on the 25 km circuit of trails from the warming hut of the Elk Valley Nordic Centre and the trails of the Fernie Alpine Resort. There is a prize for best costume! A short ride on the chairlift is included in the fun. Do the loop twice to complete the event. Or a partner and you may ski the circuit together once, adding up to 50 km.
There are categories for Mini-Vikings too! Ski as fast or as slow as you want, by yourself or with a friend, on either a 1.3 km, 3.4 km or 7.5 km course. Add some fun with a costume..

Where: Elk Valley Nordic Centre

When: Sunday, March 23, 2025

Read More: our main event page is https://www.fernienordic.com/vikingchallenge

Registration Page: https://www.webscorer.com/register?raceid=340859

Click here to register

More events to come:

Several of our group events should return this season:

  • Full Moon Skis at the golf course or at the Nordic Centre
  • Griz Days event
  • Community Fun Races
  • Fernie Flying Viking Challenge
  • Illuminated warming hut area on Saturday evenings from 6 to 8 pm at the Nordic Centre

Check our calendar HERE. Make sure that you are on our email list so you do not miss anything.

P.S. the club is still looking for an energetic person to take the lead on some of these events. Give us a shout! It will be much rewarding.

Meeting Minutes – July 8, 2024

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Photo Albums

Photo Albums
Morning training session at the Nordic Centre on March 29, 2024
Fernie Flying Viking Challenge on March 24, 2024
2024-02-24 The 10th Annual Community Run Races
2023-03-26 The 4th Annual Fernie Flying Viking Challenge
2023-03-18 SDP Wrap Up Party at the Nordic Centre
2023-02-12 The 9th Annual Community R***s
2023-01-06 Full Moon Ski
2022-10-28 The 6th Great Fernie Pumpkin Hunt

Great spring day for the Flying Vikings!

2024 viking challenge

The Fernie Nordic Society held its last skiing event of the season on Sunday March 24 at the Elk Valley Nordic Centre. Mother Nature granted us a beautiful spring day for the occasion.

Participants in costume skied the course in large numbers. A group of 57 skiers took up the challenge of going 25 or 50 km on the trails of the Nordic Centre and the Fernie Alpine Resort. In addition thirteen Mini-Vikings completed the shorter courses. Food, beverages and coaster or cookie medals were waiting for finishers back at the Nordic Centre. Other prizes included one for best costume. One participant did complete the 25 km course on his wooden skis! Good for you, Thomas!

It was a record number of participants for our fifth edition of the event. Our first edition in 2018 attracted just 11 participants!

Thank you to the groomers and the many volunteers who prepared the course, patrolled it and planned the event.

Check out the results below:

Click here for results
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A big Thank You! to
Fernie Alpine Resort and
Save-on-Foods Fernie
for supporting this event

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2024 viking challenge
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