Eight Birkie volunteers ran our busy aid station at the Tour de l’Alberta bike race! Way to help out!!! They gave out tourtière, sandwiches, crepes and fruit at the Miquelon Lake rest stop. Thanks for being the best year-round volunteers rain, snow or shine!
Summer Training for Birkie
Keeping the ski legs primed out at Cooking Lake Blackfoot Provincial Recreation Area!! Our Birkie skiers are taking advantage of the summer months to prepare for the 2020 Canadian Birkebeiner Ski Festival. #CdnBirkie
New office for the Birkie
Moving Day!!!!!! The Birkie moved to a new office today. We are so excited!!! Thank you to our volunteers who hauled furniture and storage boxes to our new address. We so greatly appreciate your assistance. Our new address is Canadian Birkebeiner Society, 7240 – 82 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta T6B 0G1. Let us know at 780-430-7153 …
Birkie One Story
Written by Frank Haley who presented this speech at the Vikings Feast on February 9, 2019 The first Edmonton Birkebeiner ski race was set for the second Saturday in February of 1985, to start from Devon, and finish at Fort Edmonton. The course followed the river, downhill. It sounded easy. We had our wooden skis …
A True Clothing Bag Story
by Jim Black, veteran and scarred skier Once upon a time ….in the early days of the Birkie – perhaps 1994 … in the era when skiers were provided a black plastic bag and number tag for their clothes to be transported from the UCHV to Waskahegan … I arose up early on Birkie morning, as …