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Moosejaw- Old Tyme Music, Dance and Clogging Weekend

The Wild Goose Chase Cloggers will continue a decades-long annual dance weekend called “MooseJaw” March 9-11 at the Maplelag Cross-Country Ski Resort near Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, about 4 hours northwest of the Twin Cities. We hope you’ll join us on March 9–11, 2012 for our annual dance weekend

Come hear “ass-kicking old-time music” by the hottest stringband in the scene today, Foghorn Stringband. Square and contra dances will be called by former Wild Goose Chase Clogger, Sue Hulsether. Two-step the night away with hometown Cajun dance hall heroes, The Bone Tones. Workshop offerings will include fiddle, banjo, guitar, singing, and many dance forms including Cajun dancing lead by Maureen Mullen. Theres also miles of beautiful cross-country skiing, the largest hot tub in Minnesota, all the hot coffee you could imagine, and of course, a bottomless cookie jar.

Based on the number of early registrations, we anticipate a full weekend. If you are intending to come to Moosejaw, please send in your registration soon to assure your spot.

Click here for more information and link to registration forms.

The Wild Goose Chase Cloggers is a 501(c)(3) educational organization dedicated to the promotion and preservation of traditional Appalachian clogging and music.  Email [email protected], or find more information on the Moosejaw website

 

Click here for photos from 2011

 

Square dance action, Moosejaw 2011
Bike Trail

Twin Lakes Mountain Bike Trail

The new singletrack loop by Twin lakes is now finished.  The loop is around 3 miles in length, taking 20-30 minutes to complete and is entirely singletrack.  The trail is open for riding.  The track is in very good shape. The trail is rated intermediate with  advanced sections. To access the trail, head down the driveway from Maplelag and take a left at the Twin Lakes gate and look for white mountain bike trail signs. Check out all the photos and video below to see what the trail looks like and the building process. The Twin lakes singletrack will be part of the Laddies Loppet course this year. We are hoping to add an extension to the loop this fall.

 

 

https://picasaweb.google.com/6birdman6/July22ndBikePhotosFromTwinLakesSingletrack

 

http://picasaweb.google.com/6birdman6/June4thBikeTrailPhotosTwinLakesSingletrack

 

Jake Richards riding the berm on eagle view descent on the Twin Lakes singletrack
Chris Ziegler riding the new track for the first time. "Great addition to the trails". Chris spending many hours on the trails during high school, now at school in VT.
Start of the singletrack from the ski trail at Twin Lakes
View of Twin Lakes from the Twin Lakes trail. Nice views of the lake from the mountain bike trail.

 

Group of Fargo riders hitting the mountain bike trails earlier this week.

Untitled from Jay Richards on Vimeo.

 

Singletrack Riding on Twin Lakes trail from Jay Richards on Vimeo.

Summer like riding conditions over the weekend on new singletrack, October 10th, 2010.
Riding an recently completed "advanced" section on the Twin Lakes singletrack.
Sunset ride on Twin Lakes singletrack, October 10th, 2010.

Riding on the new Twin Lakes singletrack – (Raw footage)

Twin Lakes Mountain Bike Trail from Jay Richards on Vimeo

Riding the first berm

Untitled from Jay Richards on Vimeo

Eagle View Descent on Twin Lakes Singletrack from Jay Richards on Vimeo.

Denny Barry packing out the new mtb singletrack near twin lakes.

http://picasaweb.google.com/6birdman6/NewTwinLakesSingletrackPhotosSeptember2010