Whether you’re looking for high-speed/thigh-burning skate-skiing laps or an all-day adventure in total solitude, it can all be had within an hour of Missoula.
Whether you’re looking for high-speed/thigh-burning skate-skiing laps or an all-day adventure in total solitude, it can all be had within an hour of Missoula.
The 2021 MHSA state cross country meet brought a return to the traditional all-class, one-day format after the COVID-19 pandemic forced last year's meet to play out over two days.
Here Montana, a BIPOC â Black/Indigenous/people of color â program run through the Missoula Parks and Recreation Department gets people outdoors.
The 20 participants stood in a circle, their bundled snow clothes and keen energy keeping them warm. Whirling snow fell from the sky dusting their hats and scarves. Fog obscured the surrounding mountains.
Other cross-country skiers passed by the group, towing sleds or getting towed by leashed dogs on their way to the links of the University of Montana Golf Course.
Melissa Raybon practices her cross-country skiing at the University Golf Course in Missoula last week. BEN ALLAN SMITH, Missoulian