B4, _ CASTLEGAR NEWS, Fohruary 20, 1983

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north for
the winter:

It’s quiet. A fresh fall of vdtamight gnow has sisea the
trail a layer of soft powder. Little. fingers of early
morning sun glint through the trees, and the only sound
in the stillness is the swoosh-swoosh of his ight wooden
skis as he moves forward in gentle rhythm. He's wearing

his patterned navy and white handknit wool socks with ‘

mitts to match. He's wearing the toque he always’ wears,
the one with the bronze and silver buttons — awards for

~ skiing. He’s Ivar Reinsbakken, president ‘of the Nordic
Ski Club and he skis three, sometimes four'times a week. °
Skiing is something Ivar has done for as long as he -

can remember. From his native Norway, where with his
one pair | of wide wooden skis he “did running and°
same and where “skiing was.a‘ means of. getting
around,” to Canada where skiing is his favorite recre-"
ation, Ivar has skied. In fact, the very word “ski” comes
from .the Norwegian « word “skith” which . means
“snowshoe.": For ‘a: ‘season in’ Norway, Ivar collected
taxes, and skiiig. was the only way he had of getting up to

* “many. of the farmhouses, *

When Ivar came to Castlegar i in 1952, heand his wife

Gunvar ‘skied all over the countryside, much, to the

of many of the other to’ whom skiing
was a very foreign occupation. The two of them hooked
their feet into very wide skis in order to plow their way
through the deep snow. Narrow racing skis were atill a
thing of the future. “When I came to Canada for years I
used a pair of downhill skis which I took the steel edges
off. Oh they were:so heavy.”
He now uses a pair of fairly wide wooden skis now
«which he has had for years, and “I swear to them.” He
begins his season by hot waxing the entire length of the
bottoms with plain parafin “for glide”. Then,he waxes the
center about a. foot, under. his boot “for kicking.” Ivar
basically carries fopr waxes’ in his cross-country pack;
green, blue, ‘purple. and red. With the dozens of new

waxes on the market and more coming out each season, —
. Ivar. still'sticks to these -four.
The. ‘Nordic Ski Club’ ‘began in 1975 when, “we were -

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Is of other
Ppartutiies paper
il Canada

‘two years. there. Thon we inoved ‘Naney: ;

: Greene Lake.” ‘They: managed to lease’ some land ‘near
someitrails into the dense brush. There are many, mamy

aki tralla in the Nancy Gréen-Mud Lake area, but to find:
partied ski-area, you drive one mile past baad

“People come up from Spokane. The last time I: was ‘out

there were {four Lila from. Republic, Wash. Some people .

tat tot aed works septa

‘ that for most, skiing is'a lot of fun, but in order for skiing ”:

to remain fun, trail must be maintained, the cabin must

lots ‘of. firewood ‘must be chopped.

‘algo ‘uded to! keep up t the payments. on

ou a z ‘
" Althou the ski club is connected to the ‘Nordic

-Lodge, that’s where the connection ends, Members of the
ski club need not be members of the Lodge. This year the
vice-president is Dave John, Chris John is treasurer, and
Alice Cristofoli.is the secretary. : .

Each. year the Sons of Norway sponsor. the Ski for
Light, a-four-day, ski competition for blind skilers. Ivar
attended “Ski For Light 83” two weeks ago. on Vancouver
Island, Each year Ivar: ekis in the races‘a

whom the club sponsors. T!
parts of Canada. — Victoria,
Calgary,, Saskatchewan,- Prince George, Toronto and
Nelson — took part.-

According to Ivar, those blind ski competitions are

“really something to watch.” The skiers ‘and their guides, .

who themselves must be excellent skiers, ski side by side
on: double tracks.“ The guide is ‘constantly yelling
commands. If any of you have been on a cross-country
trail, you know that trails are not straight. There are

curves, dips, hills and turns, The course they. used

‘ consisted of a winding 6'/2 km.

: “When you come to dip you say,, ‘Dip.’ “they
guides) have to keep ‘their.eyes on the skiers at all times.
They're allowed to hold on to the poles of a totally blind

kier when going down a hill. That's the only time. If they -
get out of their. ‘track they yell “Track left’ or “Track right’. *.

, and right away they step back into the track. They | have

“erry.came in third.in hia class— io small. task-when—._..was called. E

inaider

the course in 24 minutes. “When he passed us
he had the style of a racer. He’ looked like a'racer; and

HFst'andsecond places ‘were won’ by

an. mporal
“ position). ‘Must be. sel rl

Wages $1784-§2119 per month
Bw pe ba per

negotiation). (631E)

that’s. since hed. never ‘seen ‘one: really.

something to. see.”

Besides being a ‘guide, Ivar, himself,- is an ac-
complished skier, Everytime he hits the trails, he records
his kilometres ona: small card put out by the Canadian Ski

who ete the required

“BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES
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IMPORTANT NOTICE

In order to ‘comply with a recent directive
from the Ministry of Education, -all District

kilometres in their age categories are eligible for bronze,
silver and gold crests. For example, to get, the bronze,

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Are you bored with: art?
Does art intimidate you? Or
m@ perhaps you find it all just a
-little too serious and sombre? -

It does not have to bo. like..

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And neither ‘ is humor i ines: 3

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AR REINSBAKKEN a accomplished akier

women over 17 years ofage must 2ki150 kms ina season, .
-and men must put in 200, To earn \ the silver the following °
season, men must complete 850 km on the trail and
women 275. Finally to achieve the gold men must ski 500 ©
and women 400. Ivar is currently working‘on his silver.
And then there are the buttons, the two he has pinned to
his toque. These are achieved by not only distance but ‘by '
time as well.-He just returned from Kamloops where he
finally earned his. gold..“I'm over 60 so I had ‘more
minutes to complete my distance.” The distance he had to
* go was 10 km, and to earn'the gold he had to complete the
distance in 72 minutes. He did hie course in'64 minutes.
‘SJust like’ Canada, Norway ‘also has many fine -
try trails. The. Reinsbakk went back to
-Norway in 1980 and couldn’t keep up with the nephews.:
and other young relatives who challenged them to ski
races. “We saw a 14-year-old kid who did five km in nine
tninutes. We were Homie for aix weeks and. we took in
three races. In the winter they live and breathe skiing. In
the communities the trails are flood lit at beiesal ‘
- Ivar grey, ona. near Trondheim, Norway: *
ie Pevlof'the Teak Fj Pork 17 His

childhood, he eomb
1 asked. about the weather, envisioning. snow-covered
grounds 10 months of the year, but I found out that even
though Norway ‘is about as far north as Whitehorse,
because of the Gulf: Stream, their weather is very much -
like ours. ©

“The summers could be cold, but they were beautiful
too. The bottom of our province is a clay shelf, 80 it was -
green all the time. The farmers have to drain their fields
instead of irrigating them. Beautiful. Always green;
never dry.” The snow came to their-aréa around the
beginning of December and would leave in: “March.

When Ivar was 18 he got his first job, working ona .
very large farm. “In the summertime J looked after the
cows and in the winter I cut wood and ‘cleaned out
manure. That was untill was 19.” Then Ivar went to Oslo
where he worked for six years delivering milk. When the
war broke out he enlisted. After the war ended and
Norway. was no longer occupied, Ivar went to army school
»intending to make a career of the services. Instead He
and Gunver rented a farm and worked it for three years
until they came to Canada. Once in Castlegar, Ivar got a
job with Cominco and has worked there as a carpenter
and millwright for 20 years before he retired a few years
ago to build. houses.

Besides skiing, Ivar enjoys making things with wood.
He showed me through his workshop where he spends a

: lot of his‘free time now. His speciality is a collapsable,

folding picnic table. Whey you have finished eating your
lunch, the center of the table comes apart and the halves
become the backs of the benches. He also makes patio
rocking chairs, candle holders (shiny red for Christmas)
_ and coffee tables out of the center of trees. Ho is planning
on Sryiig the art of Rosemaling, that deocrative painting
of plates, Heqtuss, mantels, even ceiling beams which isso ~

a r Date the summer months Ivar enjoys fishing. “My

‘wife and I go whenever he can. We used to hike all over -

the place.” Besides skiing, this year Ivar is curling oha
“senjor ‘citizen's team and loving it.-

vy But his favorite pasttime remains skiing, and he
says, “We love travelling. We travel all over, but I would
“never go south in the winter!”

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