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SUMMARY:UVMBA Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:This year’s meeting will be held at Trail Break in White River Junction! We’ll give an update on our accomplishments this past year and our plans for the coming year. All 2022 UVMBA members get 1 free drink! \n  \nWe will also be holding elections for the Board OF Directors. This year we are looking for candidates to fill 4 seats on the board. If you are interested in joining the board\, please email info@UVMBA.org by 1/22/2023 and be prepared to introduce yourself at the meeting. Candidates must consider themselves to be residents of the Upper Valley aanddn be current UVMBA members.
URL:https://vmba.org/event/uvmba-annual-meeting-2/
LOCATION:Trail Break\, 129 S Main Street\, White River Junction\, VT
CATEGORIES:Chapter Meetings,Festivals/Parties
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SUMMARY:Winter Mountain Bike Meeting and Social - FCMTBC
DESCRIPTION:Join the FCMTBC for a Winter Mountain Bike Meeting & Social at 14th Star Brewery!\nPublic Welcome!\nLearn More about:\n• The Club’s new SnowDog Winter Groomer\n• Bootlegger Bikes Fat Tire Demo Bikes and equipment\n• Our New Night Rides Bike series\n• Choiniere’s Upcoming Shoe Ski & Fat Bike Event\n• The New Town Forest Trail\n• Potential Benefits of Civilian Conservation Corp National Pilot in St. Albans\nQuestions? Contact Andy Crossman at (802) 582-6236
URL:https://vmba.org/event/winter-mountain-bike-meeting-and-social-fcmtbc/
LOCATION:14 Star Brewery\, 133 N Main St #7\, St Albans City\, VT\, 05478\, United States
CATEGORIES:Festivals/Parties
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SUMMARY:Fat Bike Wednesdays at Catamount Outdoor
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Wednesday evening this winter at Catamount for Guided Fat Bike Rides!\nGrab your fat bike and headlamp and met us at the Hub (near the parking lot) at 6:00pm. Tires will hit the trails at 6:15pm! \nDon’t have a bike? Our rental Hub has you covered (bike rentals are first come first serve and a credit card is required to be held while you’re on trail)! Please arrive ~20 minutes early if renting a bike. \nRides will be approximately 1.5 hours and are beginner friendly. Want some extra instruction before the ride? Check out our lesson options! \nAn Annual or Day Membership is required to access the trails. If purchasing memberships on site\, please arrive 5-10 minutes early. \n2023 Ride Dates \n\nJanuary 11\, 18\, 25\nFeb 1\, 8\, 15\, 22\,\nMarch 1\, 8\, 15\, 22\, 29\n\nAll rides are conditions dependent
URL:https://vmba.org/event/fat-bike-wednesdays-at-catamount-outdoor/
LOCATION:Catamount Outdoor Center\, Williston\, VT
CATEGORIES:Group Rides / Races
ORGANIZER;CN="Catamount Outdoor Family Center":MAILTO:thehub@catamountoutdoor.org
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230126
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230129
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SUMMARY:2023 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour
DESCRIPTION:The 2023 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour brings films and stories of exploration from around the world in a 3-day experience featuring a collection of the most exhilarating\, provocative and inspiring action\, environmental and adventure films.\nWe are excited to bring back this incredible festival celebrating the outdoors in 2023. The festival will take place at the UVM Davis Center\nJanuary 26th\, 27th\, and 28th.\nDoors: 6PM\, Films: 7PM\n\nBUY TICKETS HERE\n\nProceeds will benefit the UVM Outdoor Programs\, providing outdoor opportunities for diverse groups of young people.\nUVM Outdoor Programs include: People Of Color Outdoors\, Outing Club\, Summit Sisters\, Kayak Club\, and Chicks On Sticks. \n\n\nWatch the Trailer:\n\n  \n\nTHURSDAY NIGHT WILLOW FILMS:\nApproximately 2 hours | Featuring: \nFlow | 5 min\nAn aerial and symphonic journey with skier Sam Favret\, in the heart of a closed resort during the winter of 2021\, rediscovering a playground in its wild state. \nThe Fastest Girl in the Village | 6 min\nAs a girl growing up in Lesotho\, Khothalang Leuta never imagined she could become a bike racer. From teaching herself how to ride a bike to becoming “faster than the boys”\, see what can be accomplished when opportunity is provided. \nNuisance Bear | 14 min\nBest Film: Environment\nChurchill\, Manitoba\, is famous as an international destination for photographing polar bears. We’ve seen the majestic images and classic wildlife series captured here\, but what do these bears see of us? \nWILD WATERS (Tour Edit) | 45 min\nAudience Choice Award\nAdvisory: Coarse language\, sensitive subject matter\nDiscover the incredible life of Nouria Newman\, the most gifted kayaker of her generation. \nCreation Theory | 22 min\nCreative Excellence Award\nAdvisory: Coarse language\nNature’s raw elements converge in the Westfjords of Iceland\, taking us on a journey from the interstellar birth of gravity and rhythm to their ultimate human creative expression: surfer on wave\, snowboarder on peak\, and musician on stage. \nREEL ROCK 16: Cenote | 9 min\nA young papaya farmer discovers the pure joy of climbing in the crystalline limestone sinkholes of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. \nFree to Run | 31 min\nAdvisory: Coarse language\nUN human rights attorney and mountain runner\, Stephanie Case\, struggles to find a way forward for the Afghan women of her NGO\, Free to Run\, while taking on her most challenging ultra-race yet. \nDanny MacAskill’s Do A Wheelie | 6 min\nJoin Danny MacAskill and a host of friends as he pushes the boundaries of the humble wheelie and learns a thing or two from friends old and new. \n  \n\nFRIDAY NIGHT JUNIPER FILMS:\nApproximately 2 hours | Featuring: \nAlta | 5 min\nAdvisory: Coarse language\nA team of high-performance riders travels to Alta\, Utah for a spring freeskiing session that delivers all styles and conditions of skiing. \nREEL ROCK 16: Bridge Boys | 28 min\nAdvisory: Coarse language\nA horizontal big-wall adventure on the longest\, most ridiculous crack climb ever attempted. \nContinuum | 2 min\nEverything is connected. Each ride is an extension of the one before and each re-entry is a transition to the next launch. Each experience builds toward a flow state of endless progression. \nBefore They Fall | 40 min\nAdvisory: Coarse language\nA decades-long battle to protect old-growth forests in British Columbia escalates when conservation groups\, First Nations\, scientists\, and land defenders block a logging company from accessing the last unprotected watershed on southern Vancouver Island. \nA Baffin Vacation | 12 min\nAdvisory: Coarse language\nErik Boomer and Sarah McNair-Landry set off on a 45-day expedition through Baffin Island in search of stunning cliffs to climb and unexplored rivers to kayak. \nWood Hood | 16 min\nBest Short Film\nDeVaughn (15) from New York City craves a “quiet place” to escape the chaos of his home\, the city\, and kids that steal from him. On a weekend-long group camping trip\, we witness the joy and growth that is possible when kids have an opportunity to find that “quiet place”. \nDoo Sar: A Karakoram Ski Expedition Film (Tour Edit) | 20 min\nAndrzej Bargiel and Jędrek Baranowski set off to the Karakoram for an adventure full of passion and love that has them freeriding at over 6\,000 meters above sea level! \nNorth Shore Betty | 12min\nAdvisory: Coarse language\nBetty Birrell picked up mountain biking at age 45\, in the misty forests above North Vancouver\, after a career as a mountaineer and professional windsurfer. Three decades later\, she is proof that you’re never too old to send. \n  \n\nSATURDAY NIGHT ASPEN FILMS:\nApproximately 2 hours | Featuring: \nColors of Mexico | 5 min\nDiscover Mexico from the tops of its most active volcanoes to the steep and colorful streets of historic villages with rider Kilian Bron and his team. \nEco-Hack! | 17 min\nAdvisory: Coarse language\nBiologist Tim Shields has watched desert tortoise populations in the Mojave Desert plummet since the 1990s. The latest threat? Ballooning populations of ravens. Tim quits traditional observational biology in exchange for direct intervention. \nFabric: A Documentary Series\, Ep 4 Heritage (Tour Edit) | 10 min\nEmbracing identity and tradition to empower future generations of Indigenous youth\, Hawaiian surfer Mainei Kinimaka preserves ancestral tradition through stewardship of language and tradition. \nBalkan Express | 40 min\nBest Film: Snow Sports\nAdvisory: Coarse language\nFreeskiers Max Kroneck and Jochen Mesle of Ice and Palms reunite for another adventure – a 2\,500 kilometer journey by bike and ski\, exploring the mountains of the Balkans. \nThe Process | 15 min\nAdvisory: Coarse language\nClimber Tom Randall is known for his commitment to training and outrageous challenges he sets himself. This time\, he has set his mind on fell running and a link-up of 15 classic Lakeland rock climbs\, 42 summits\, and 142 kilometers in 24 hours. \nClean Mountains | 19 min\nDuring the pandemic there were no foreign climbers in the Himalaya. A Sherpa family decides to climb Mount Everest and clean up the garbage left behind – restoring the holiness of the mountain and calming the gods. \nSheri (Tour Edit) | 19 min\nAdvisory: Coarse language\nSheri Tingey started a company at age 50 that has revolutionized the outdoor industry. This is a film about the hurdles she overcame to launch the company and about the ways she hid from view so that people would judge the boats\, not her role in creating them. \nWalking on Clouds | 7 min\nIn the city of Praia Grande\, Santa Catarina\, Brazil\, Rafael Bridi attempts the highest highline record in the world by setting his line above the clouds.
URL:https://vmba.org/event/2023-banff-mountain-film-festival-world-tour/
LOCATION:UVM Davis Center\, 590 Main St\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Thursday Night Headlamp Ski Tours at Horace Hill
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday nights SoVTA will host a headlamp tour of Horace Hill (weather permitting). They will be leaving from the fire pit behind OMT and returning to OMT for a few post-tour libations. This tour will be hosted by one of the SoVTA board members each week. This tour is open to people on touring skis\, splitboards and snowshoes. They may have extra snowshoes if people need them thanks to CTA. \nThese tours are open to everyone and are no drop. They ask that you can comfortably ski or ride in moderately pitched tree’d terrain. This is not a Ski or Snowboard lesson. These tours are weather dependent\, so please visit their website and Instagram for the most up-to-date information and Required Equipment List. You can also reach them via email at events2022@sovta.org.
URL:https://vmba.org/event/thursday-night-headlamp-ski-tours-at-horace-hill/
LOCATION:Horace Hill
CATEGORIES:Group Rides / Races
ORGANIZER;CN="Southern Vermont Trail Association":MAILTO:events2022@sovta.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230127T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230127T200000
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SUMMARY:Snowshoe Romp with Onion River Outdoors
DESCRIPTION:Join Onion River Outdoors for their annual Snowshoe Romp! This year\, they will be changing locations and setting up the Romp at North Branch Trails! Park at the pool parking lot by the Montpelier Rec Fields.\n\nEnjoy a candlelit trail through the woods\, hot chocolate\, a bonfire\, and snowshoe demos from MSR\, Tubbs\, and Atlas. Bring a headlamp or flashlight. This event is FREE! All ages and abilities welcome.\nAlready have snowshoes you love? Bring your own to romp around in!
URL:https://vmba.org/event/snowshoe-romp-with-onion-river-outdoors/
LOCATION:Montpelier Pool Shelter\, 1 Poolside Dr\, Montpelier\, VT\, 05602\, United States
CATEGORIES:Festivals/Parties,Group Outing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230128T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230129T160000
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SUMMARY:Craftsbury Marathon Ski Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Craftsbury Marathon Ski Festival returns! The classic races take place on Saturday\, January 28\, 2023 and the freestyle competitions are on Sunday\, January 29\, 2023. We are planning on running the 25k-ish loop from 2022 before it was rained out. \nwww.craftsburymarathon.com will contain all the info.
URL:https://vmba.org/event/craftsbury-marathon-ski-festival/
LOCATION:Craftsbury Outdoor Center\, Craftsbury\, VT
CATEGORIES:Festivals/Parties
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230128T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230128T170000
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SUMMARY:ACBC Fat Bike Roundup
DESCRIPTION:ACBC is hosting a great time riding fat bikes at Rikert. Sign up today and join us for the Fat Bike Round Up – Saturday\, January 28th. Fat Bikes\, Adaptive Bikes\, Like-minded riders – fun for all!! Sign up early and sign up often!!! \n  \nSign up HERE.
URL:https://vmba.org/event/acbc-fat-bike-roundup/
LOCATION:Rikert Nordic Center
CATEGORIES:Festivals/Parties,Group Rides / Races
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230129T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230129T170000
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CREATED:20230120T195807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230120T195807Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Ski Tours at the Dover Town Forest
DESCRIPTION:Each week SoVTA’s Executive Director Steve Petrik will take a group out and work on the skills new and seasoned users need to be safe and efficient in backcountry touring. This will be an informal\, low-pressure clinic with a focus on fun and enjoying the natural resource that is the Dover Town Forest. The topics will change from week to week depending on the conditions and the skill level of the group. They will try to post the skills that you will be working on the week before\, so you can plan ahead but again these clinics will be tailored to the group and the conditions the day of. These tours are open to everyone and are no drop. They ask that you can comfortably ski or ride in the moderately pitched tree’d terrain. This is not a Ski or Snowboard lesson. These tours are weather dependent\, so please visit their website and Instagram for the most up-to-date information and Required Equipment List. You can also reach them via email at events2022@sovta.org.
URL:https://vmba.org/event/saturday-ski-tours-at-the-dover-town-forest/
LOCATION:Dover Town Forest
CATEGORIES:Group Rides / Races
ORGANIZER;CN="Southern Vermont Trail Association":MAILTO:events2022@sovta.org
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