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Weather Conditions at site of

2013 National Championships
in
Bend, Or

Sunday March 11^th, 2012 – Foret Montmorency in Quebec Canada. Eleven U.S. snowshoe athletes ventured to northern Quebec to take on the best snowshoe athletes in the World at the annual World Snowshoe Championships hosted by the Raquette Quebec Organization. The demanding 10km course attracted athletes from eastern Canada, western Canada, the United States, France and Italy. Four members of the 2011 Brooks-Range Mountaineering U.S. National Snowshoe Team competed wearing the red, white and blue!

Amber Ferreira of New Hampshire, the 2010 US Women’s National Champion and the 2011 National runner-up, ran to a strong second place finish chasing perennial snowshoe champion Mari Grazia-Roberti of Italy.

Eric Hartmark of Minnesota, fresh from a third place finish at the 2012 US National Championships in Colorado, also earned a runner-up position on the podium, taking second to David Le Porho’s second consecutive World Snowshoe title. 2011 Team Member Greg Hexum, also of Minnesota, ran to a solid 5^th place showing and team member Laurie Lambert of Texas finished in 6^th place in her third World Snowshoe Championship. Lambert claimed a 3^rd place finish at the 2007 Worlds on the Dachstein Glacier in Austria and a 13^th place finish at the 2010 Worlds in Vancouver British Columbia Canada during the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Also competing for the United States were;Tina Marie-Poulin of New York in 9^th place (she had finished in 4^th pl. in the 2011 Worlds in Japan) Kellie Gregoire of New York in 10^th pl. (she had finished in 9^th pl. in the 2010 Worlds in Vancouver) Kevin Tilton of New Hampshire in 7^th place Tim Van Orden of Vermont in 12^th place Judson Cake of Maine in 15^th place Jeremy Drowne of New York in 18^th place Ross McMahon of Nevada in 21^st place.

The U.S. National Snowshoe Team also enjoys support from NEOS Overshoes and Thor-Lo Socks!

Click on the button below to view the results

The 2012 Dion USSSA Nationals Snowshoe

Championships is in the history books

Full results will be posted as soon as they become available and can be viewed Here

The 2013 Dion National Snowshoe Championships will be held in Bend, Oregon

March 15-17, 2013

In the coming months there will be much more information posted about the event as well as the area

To get an idea of what is there you can visit the Visitor's Bureau

The videos below were recorded by Lisa Kasyon

Junior 5Km

Sr. 10Km Men

Sr. 10km Women

RUNNING ON WATER: EDITION NUMBER 21

Snowshoe Racing Blossoms In Durango...

2nd Annual "Winter Warrior 5 & 10k" Race arrives February 11th!

Beyond the clatter of my preciously busy hometown of Durango, up high among vanilla-coated pines and naked aspens there is arising another, albeit softer, clatter. The sound is from 'sport snowshoes' dancing across wintery landscapes like the mystical hooves of Santa's reindeer. These are NOT your grandfather's snowshoes. Rawhide webs and leather bindings are an eon of high technology lost to these 8"x 22" speed weapons made from composite decking and frame materials to which NASA would approvingly nod. These new generation snowshoes, the love children from die-hard winter athletes like myself, have suddenly become the vehicle of choice for a winter fitness revolution drawing millions of dry-land fitness warriors - such as runners and cyclists - toward a loving embrace of winter endurance training

Photo by Joe Viger

Wanted

New columnists to be featured on this site.

Do you have some knowledge connected with snowshoeing you are dying to share? Can you write an interesting article?

We are looking for a few authors willing to write an article or a series of articles to be featured on our website.

What do you get out of this? You get the bragging rights of belonging to a very exclusive club of great writers. Sorry but we can't pay for your submissions.

If you are interested please send your submission to webmaster@snowshoeracing.com

Any article submitted will become the non-exclusive property of the United States Snowshoe Association to use or not use as they see fit. We will not stop you from submitting your writing to other publications, but we do ask that if it is used by them you let us know so we can ask to place a link to it if we see fit.

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Attention Service Men & Women

USSSA All Military Division

We offer what we call the "All-Military" Division at our annual US National Snowshoe Championships. All active duty members of all branches of the US Armed Forces are invited to compete in our 10km National Men's and Women's Snowshoe Championship events.

You do not need to 'qualify' to compete. But, you do need to be a current USSSA member and then register for the National Championship event. You can find the NC entry form and usssa membership information on our website at www.snowshoeracing.com.

Help us spread the word. We have a team division too. Individually, male military members compete in the men's 10km NC race and female military members compete in the ladies 10km NC race.

Top 5 All-Military finishers in each race earn medals. Top male and female team (3 or more members from same branch) win a team award to display at their base for a year.

We expect to have snowshoe vendors on site in Frisco CO at nationals who can provide loaner snowshoes too. Just be aware, the race course starts at over 9000' elevation and goes up from there.

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Newbie on Vinyl

Please Welcome our newest Columnist

Larry Mishkar

My cheeks were burning two weeks ago on a Saturday morning. The air was crisp and there was plenty of heavy breathing.

The blue sky stretched from horizon to horizon as I crossed the finish line at the Treehaven Stomp, leaving 5K of well-packed snow behind for the other runners to own. After a few minutes of walking in circles, collecting my thoughts and my breath, we all exchanged congrats for a race well-done.

It was 10ºF and the table of post-race bananas and orange slices seemed out of place.

Soon the panting changed to legible conversations and all was better. It was off to lunch-chili and all the fixings, plus the modern convenience of central heating in the Treehaven lodge. As we shuffled to the lodge and into dry clothes, we left behind the trails until next year.

Photo by Joe Viger