Wednesday afternoon update.
An update on the fundraiser ball for the National team.
The venue has changed and all tickets are now sold. It should be a great night on Saturday and non attendees can still contribute by donation and participate in the silent auction.
Click or copy and paste the links to one of two sites for specific tax-deductible donation. Either to the World Junior and U23 team heading to their World Champs 2027 or to the National team for their World Championship in Falun 2027 campaign.
https://asf.org.au/campaigns/snow-australia/ausxc-world-junior-u23-championship
https://asf.org.au/campaigns/snow-australia/2027-falun-world-championship
The silent auction link will give lists and photos of items up for grabs, with self explanatory instructions.
https://www.myminiauction.com/ausxc
Interschools XC event is scheduled for Friday 4th September. The location will be on the Vail/Perisher resort. The specific location will be announced as soon as possible. With such limited snow and rain forecast overnight it is still too hard to make the final decision as to where the event will be held.
PHOTOS:
John Stoukalo has finished all the photos taken during Cross Country ski week. He is donating the group photos and selling the individual photos.
XC Week 2026 photos.
OK, folks, XC Week 2026 photos have been sorted and uploaded to Google cloud.
There are 1171 images in total.
To check your 2026 photos use this link:
https://drive.google.com/.../14gtXhU8UGwCNq1nssQWQQyDHHCF...
All races are in separate folders. Detailed instructions to get photos are in “2026 XC Week photos Guide”. It is amongst photo folders. Read Guide first and follow steps to get your photos.
PS:
Link to Ski Week 2024 photos:
https://drive.google.com/.../1b3euPKllEjNurUw1rpKNH1JPS3P...
Link to Ski Week 2025 photos:
https://drive.google.com/.../1n_zQMcNOse_FGLHn9...
Have a look, there are good photos from 2024 and 2025 as well.
Happy Viewing!
Kind regards,
John Stoukalo.
LOST PROPERTY Reminder.
The photos posted a few days ago helped to get more gear reunited with their owners. A special plea to the person who left the red poles with the Hoppet stickers after inter schools, please get in touch.
The Nordic shelter will remain open and will be warm and welcoming to anyone who wants to come in just to be social or enjoy a stroll around the village roads. The XC trails are not really suitable as walking trails.
John and Sonja


| Current Temperature: (c) | 6.5 | Overnight Low: (c) | warm and wet | |
| Visibility: | Good | Wind: | WNW 41-67 kph | |
| Cloud Cover: | 6/8 | Weather: | BOM forecast for the Alpine area. Thursday 3rd September Cloudy. Very high chance of showers, most likely in the early morning. Snow falling above 1900 metres. Damaging winds possible. Winds northwesterly 40 to 60 km/h turning westerly 30 to 45 km/h during the day. min +2 max +5 Min -3C Max +9C |
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Donations:
Nordic Shelter Development | Australian Sports Foundation
asf.org.au
HTTPS://asf.org.au/campaigns/snow-australia-northern/nordic-shelter-development