Official 2011 Dirksen Derby Video from DirksenDerby on Vimeo.

“This Year’s The 5th Annual Dirksen Derby Was The Best Yet. The 3 day weekend long event was an action packed fundraiser for Tyler Eklund. Friday started off with practice runs in the two run course. Each course had 12 burms, with the Red Course proving to be more fluid and the Green Course proving to be more radius challenging. Friday night was the Dirksen Derby Broken Board Fundraiser held at the cozy Poet House. Packed House. Saturday was Qualifying for the stacked field, ranging from, Terje Haakonsen to Jake Blauvelt to Desiree Melancon to Macy Price. After the sunny qualifying day the 300+ mass headed down to the Seventh Mt. Resort for the premiere of Aaron Robinson’s “Manifest” movie. Epic! Sunday was the finals day for Sit-Ski-, Splitboard, Women, Men, and the Older and Wiser. Check the video to see all the action at Mt. Bachelor in beautiful Central Oregon.”

Bend’s premier and season ending nordic ski race is in the books for 2010.

MENS 30K
1 Lars Flora
2 Marshall Greene
3 Brayton Osgood
4 Eric Martin
5 Kent Murdoch
6 Andrew Boone
7 Dan Packman
8 Damon Kluck
9 Jason Adams
10 Kevin Grove

WOMENS
1 Kristina Strandberg
2 Suzanne King
3 Evelyn Dong
4 Inge Scheve
5 Mary Wellington
6 Taylor Leach
7 Carolyn Daubeny
8 Cynthia Engel
9 Hilary Garrett
10 Lea M Julson

FULL RESULTS

Golden opportunity
Training and racing at Bachelor, Canadian Jasey-Jay Anderson is eyeing an Olympic medal in Vancouver in his final season of parallel giant slalom snowboarding – By Mark Morical/The Bulletin

In the beginning
Mini World Cup: An opportunity to ski race every weekend – The Bulletin

Always on the move
Mt. Bachelor ski patrol takes charge of safety issues on a big, wind-thrashed mountain – By Mark Morical / The Bulletin

Not your average nordic training day
Ever played soccer on skis? What about Frisbee? – By Scott Hammers / The Bulletin