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North Superior Ski and Run Club receives two grants for the Pincushion Trails Rehabilitation Project

North Superior Ski and Run Club (NSSRC) announces that is has received $10,000 from the Legacy Trails Program, administered by American Trails, for the Pincushion Trails Rehabilitation Project, Cook County, Minnesota. In addition, NSSRC has received $12,500 from the Department of Iron Range Resource and Rehabilitation for the rehabilitation project and purchase of a new flail mower.
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Vikings getting ready for the Volleyball season

Last week the CCHS gym was filled with girls’ grades 7th -12 pushing hard in conditioning drills and working diligently on setting, receiving, bumping and serving volleyballs, skills needed to compete in the always competitive Polar League. Enthusiasm was high as the kids practiced under the watchful eye of Coach Zimmer.
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Will Surbaugh places 37th at Leadville

Brian Larsen Lutsen mountain biker Will Surbaugh, 21, had another great race at the Stages Cycling Leadville Trail race held in Colorado on August 12. Will bettered his time set two years ago and equaled his 37th place, crossing the line of this rugged course in 6:52:47.
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Fisherman Picnic trail run results

This year’s five-mile Fisherman’s Picnic trail race held on the Pincushion Mountain trail system was truly five miles, not 4.77 miles as the old racecourse proved to be. That said, the hilly race, as always, was challenging, and place, not time, was the goal of most competitors. Anton and Brienne Moody were the new race directors who changed the course. Anton said he wanted the five-mile race to be, well, five miles. Good enough. Below are the results, but you will note that Chris Hegg wasn’t entered. Chris, 71? an age group wunderkind is recouping from a hamstring injury suffered while cross country skiing. He said he would be back next year.
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NSSRC nearing its fundraising goal for new Pincushion ski grooming equipment

“Thisisaonce-in-a-generation investment in our community and the future of Nordic skiing on the trails at Pincushion,” said Chris O’Brien, President of the North Superior Ski and Run Club (NSSRC) and one of the eight Pincushion Groomer Capital Campaign volunteers working to raise the funds needed for a new Pisten Bully groomer for Pincushion. “The current groomer is 35 years old. It has served us for many decades, but it is failing, breaking down frequently and struggling to climb and groom the hilly terrain at Pincushion.”
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Outdoors with

Memories of the Minnesota River mudflats Towards the end of summer there was a place in the river bottoms that all the kids from all the high schools in the cities seemed to know. It was a place in the Mississippi River bottoms in the cities, although few but me of the others knew that it was not the Mississippi, but the Minnesota River, because I paid attention to such things, and if you were young then all you knew was the airport and the great airplane runways over the river, and maybe Interstate 494, possibly Cedar Avenue.
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