Tower Ridge Skills Park

Kickin’ Kids, Chippewa Valley Nordic, the Eau Claire Ski Striders and Eau Claire County Parks are teaming up to bring a new element to Tower Ridge.  We are planning on creating two skills parks near the chalet. One park will be focused on younger, less experienced skiers and the other for those more advanced youth skiers.

Cross country ski skills parks contain a series of elements like bumps, jumps, and figure 8’s designed to be great fun and to challenge skiers skills on skis. Over the past 5 years they have become popular in Europe and more recently in the US for cross country skiing.  This park will not only be fun but enhance our skiers abilities, be unique to the region, and we think it will attract even more family visits to Tower Ridge.

PROJECT COMPLETED!!!

Here are a number of links to example courses to show what we used as reference:

• • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20n4GqErTVI - Shows a course layout in at the start of the video, similar to the last link I sent only a competition.  You can see where course marking devices become important…

  • 2016 Youth Olympic Games Cross Country Cross: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vs-cMOBzBc (you’ll need to watch a few minutes to see skiers in the obstacle and skill sections)

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYCmHdZ-1zs

  • FIS SnowKidz       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6SrhYITsx8

  • http://issuu.com/internationalskifederation/docs/cross_country_cross?e=8599771/3775913

  • Audi FIS SnowKidz Toolkit http://snowkidz.com/en/Service/Audi_SnowKidz_Toolkit

  • http://snowkidz.com/en/Service/Organise_an_Event/Event_Ideas/Cross_Country_Cross

  • Cross country cross, Harstad 2012 - A guide to course development - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plJ5dr5sB1s

  • Cross country cross, Hamar 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugikn_6uBXc&spfreload=1

  • Cross Country cross at skiing day, Jutul 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdkGrJYnsE8

  • Cross Country Cross, Harstad 2012 - Why https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGzDKle8aB8

  • FIS SnowKidz - Cross Country Cross https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6SrhYITsx8

  • Crosscountry Cross FIS 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSxbVRwEdBk

    1. Cross-Country Skiing - Cross Free - Fill Replay | Lillehammer 2016 Youth Olympic Games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM9TvFXWqEc

    2. Langrennscross HL 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo2st9s_ERg

    3. Snu kinahatter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaV-zdGtmd8&index=13&list=PL4B1FD2DD2C303107

    4. REG Agility Movie on Vimeo - https://vimeo.com/172441702

    5. Langrennscross FIS 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSxbVRwEdBk&feature=share&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DeSxbVRwEdBk%26feature%3Dshare&app=desktop