CCBC Membership Drive Winners!

Nickel Plate Wins Cross Country BC Membership Contest – Prizes for Our Members!  Every year, Cross Country BC (CCBC) challenges clubs across the province to a friendly membership competition. The goal? To see which club can achieve the highest percentage of...

Gliding Through History

As published in the January 2025 edition of Apex Matters Figuring out better ways to get around on the snow goes back at least 8,000 years. Nobody can say if Neanderthals were skiing 40,000 years ago, but I’d bet they figured something out. What we do have are...

Urban Ski Trails: There’s Always a Way to Work Out

As published in the November 2024 edition of Apex Matters I’m 1500 kilometers away from home, in hot sunny San Francisco – one of the last places you’d think of for cross-country skiing. But I’m looking at our webcam right now and I see snow! As happy as I...

There’s a Fountain of Youth at Nickel Plate

As published in the October 2024 edition of Apex Matters There was a time when Jackrabbit Johannsen was, at one point, the oldest known living person. A pioneer of cross-country skiing in North America, Jackrabbit  (Herman Smith-Johannsen, 1875 to 1987) is a legend in...

Meet Our New Customer Services Lead Alex Caplan

We are thrilled to welcome Meghan Keir as our new General Manager at Nickel Plate Nordic Centre and excited to have Alex Caplan return as our Customer Services Lead. With Meghan’s extensive background in outdoor recreation and business management, and...