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Spook Night October 27th!
Our Third annual Tsalteshi Trails Fundraiser! We have a costume contest, 1K trick or treat trail for kids 10 and under, and a 5K race for everyone else. Come on out, have fun and support your local trail system. Sign up using the event links at right, see the flyer below for details!
PsychoCross Mountain Bike Race, August 31
The PsychoCross Mountain Bike Race (August 31) is a “Off-Piste” mountain bike race. The course is serious, helmets are mandatory and you must be at least 18 years of age to participate. The race starts at the Skyview High School trailhead. Registration/bib pick up begins at noon and the race starts at 1pm. Sign up online HERE. Online registration is $20. Race day registration is $25. We are also looking for volunteers for the event. Please email us at tsalteshi@yahoo.com to help out.
Ready, set, REGISTER and run! Fountain of Youth Pursuit is Saturday, Aug. 17!
Ready, set, REGISTER and run! Fountain of Youth Pursuit is Saturday, Aug. 17! Tsalteshi Trails’ inaugural 10k Fountain of Youth Pursuit run is this Saturday, Aug. 17, at 10 a.m. at the trails behind Skyview High School. Don’t miss your chance to be involved in the first pursuit run (that we know of) in Alaska! Runners are assigned staggered start times according to their age and gender, with kids and older runners given head starts. It’s up to the 20-year-old guys to try to catch up. First across the finish line wins! This unique format means that any runner, of any age has an equal chance at a winning placement. But to get your head start, you must REGISTER IN ADVANCE! All day-of-race signups will be seeded in the last wave to leave the starting line. Advance registration closes at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16. If you want to run with a friend or group of different ages, that’s fine, too — we’ll seed you in the last wave and you can enjoy a noncompetitive jaunt through the woods. All running is fun running! Plus! We’ve got free T-shirts for current Tsalteshi Trails Association members (nonmembers can buy a shirt for $20, or become a member on the Tsalteshi website to get a free shirt.) And we’ve got awesome monetary Prizes for the top five finishers, and a raffle drawing grand prize open to all participants. Salmon Run Series participants, consider this your graduate achievement for all the 5Ks you ran this summer! Lost Lake runners, this is the perfect tune-up for your event the next weekend! Fall marathoners and half marathoners, this is a great mid-distance training run! Everybody — want to stay young and have fun? Then come run! Register and check your headstart at http://www.tsalteshi.org/?page_id=5&ee=94. The race starts at the Skyview High School trailhead. Registration/bib pick up begins at 9 a.m. Saturday, and the first wave starts at 10 a.m. Online registration is $25. This is a fundraiser for Tsalteshi Trails Association, to help us maintain the trails, facilitate youth and school running and skiing programs, and hold community events year-round. Don’t want to run but want to be involved? Come volunteer! We’ll need lots of help to keep everything — and everyone — running smoothly. Sign up to volunteer by emailing tsalteshi@yahoo.com. Hope to see you all — young and young at heart — on the...
One Eventful Summer!
Click on the title above to view full post. There is a full slate of activities at Tsalteshi this summer! For runners there is the Salmon Run Series and the Fountain of Youth Pursuit. For bikers we have the Salmon Cycle Series and the Psychocross bike race! ++++++++++++++++++ Feel like a 5K? The Salmon Run Series begins this Wednesday (7/10) and continues for the next 5 weeks. Keep up to date on their Facebook page. Sign up online HERE. The races start at the Skyview High School trailhead. Registration/bib pick-up begins at 5pm and the races begin at 6pm. Proceeds benefit the Kenai Watershed Forum. Online registration is $10 per race or $45 for all 5 races. Race day registration is $15. ++++++++++++++++++ Rather bike? The Salmon Cycle Series begins this Thursday (7/11) and continues for the next 8 weeks. More info is available HERE. The races start at the Skyview High School trailhead at 6pm. Races will be 10K plus. The races are free to TTA members, $5 for non-members. ++++++++++++++++++ The Fountain of Youth Pursuit (August 17) is a 10k race in a fun new format! Older and younger runners are given a head start over runners in their prime. Women are given larger head starts than men. Similar events have resulted in winners of all sexes and ages, so bring the whole family! Register and check your headstart HERE. The race starts at the Skyview High School trailhead. Registration/bib pick up begins at 9am and the first wave starts at 10am. Online registration is $25. You can register on race day but you will have to start in the last wave. ++++++++++++++++++ The PsychoCross Mountain Bike Race (August 31) is 10 mile “Off-Piste” mountain bike race. The course is serious, helmets are mandatory and you must be at least 18 years of age to participate. The race starts at the Skyview High School trailhead. Registration/bib pick up begins at noon and the race starts at 1pm. Sign up online HERE. Online registration is $20. Race day registration is...
Year in Review!!
The Tsalteshi Trails provide over 12 miles of cross country ski and running trails that are frequented by 3 high schools, 2 middle schools, a youth (6-12 years old) ski program, several adult fitness groups and countless members of the community at large. We believe healthy outdoor activity is fundamental to physical, mental, and emotional health and are proud to contribute to the high quality of life available to residents of Soldotna and the greater area. We had a productive year in 2012! New trail projects were completed on two parcels we obtained permission to develop in 2011. The “Fox” trail, developed on City of Soldotna property, provides a challenging, rolling loop that also affords new route options for racing and recreational skiing. On Kenai Peninsula Borough property we roughed in the “Owl” loop, further expanding the beginner friendly options South of Skyview High School. The Owl and adjacent Squirrel loops are excellent ski trails but need to be surfaced before reaching their full potential for summer use. We also flagged and partially completed a Snowshoe trail, with the help of a local boy scout. This is a narrow trail, designed to be packed by it’s users, that travels between and across our existing ski trails. In this way it allows snowshoers improved access without sacrificing safety or increasing grooming requirements. Finally, we worked with the Kenai Peninsula Rotoract to install a 18 hole Frisbee golf course on the Squirrel trail. Last year was also a great year for community events at Tsalteshi Trails! We hosted the Besh Cups this winter, which is one of the premier ski races in the state. TTA also operated a wide range of community events (She Can Ski, Everything but the Red Run, the Psycocross bike race, Spook Night and our Youth Ski Program) and continued to provide race support for Kenai Peninsula Borough School District sanctioned events. We also collaborated with several groups to allow additional community events at Tsalteshi Trails. These include the Tri-the-Kenai, the Salmon Run Series (Kenai Watershed Forum), Learn to Ski day for Children with Special Needs (Natures Way Rehabilitation Services), Step Out to Stop Diabetes 5k (American Diabetes Association), United Steel Workers 5k, and the Tustumena 200 fundraiser skijour race (1 day only with dogs). Finally, we opened our 22-caliber biathlon range after a long hiatus this winter. Thanks to the enthusiasm generated by our youth ski program’s laser biathlon component, we now have a small group of volunteers who have completed the safety training required to operate the range responsibly. Great job...
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