Coming again in 2024-25.

Stowe Nordic Master’s Training Program, 2023-2024

  • Dates: Mondays, September 18, 2023 to March 11, 2024

  • Times: Weekly, Mondays, 4:00-5:30 pm (3:30-5:00 after time change)

  • Where: Trapp Family Lodge Outdoor Center

  • Program Costs: The Stowe Nordic program fee is $190. Participants must also be members of Stowe Nordic ($30 individual; $50 family) for the current year.

  • Trail Use Fees: All participants must also purchase a trail pass from Trapp’s. Last winter’s pass prices are listed here and most likely there will be a small increase for this year. You should purchase this pass at the early season discounted rate (10% off before October 31). This will cover all Stowe Nordic Monday training sessions during the fall, and full winter ski season use. You will purchase this in person at the Trapps Touring Center so photo and pass can be made.

We thank the Trapp Family Lodge Outdoor Center for hosting the Stowe Nordic Master’s Training Program and for offering discounted rates on trail passes to program participants.

Program Description:

The Stowe Nordic Master’s Training Program is for men and women, ages 30 plus. This program is for the intermediate to advanced skier with the goal of improving fitness and ski technique, both classic and skating. The program will be Mondays 4:00-5:30 pm (until the time change, then 3:30) at the Trapp Family Lodge Outdoor Center. We will begin on Monday, September 18, meeting weekly with dryland training, and as soon as there is enough snow, ski training. You will have rotating coaches each with their own focus: Trina Hosmer (interval training), Dave Hosmer (core strength, technique, video), and assistants Carol VanDyke, Leigh Mallory, and Robyn Anderson. Weekly emails will be sent out before each session informing you of the type of training planned (e.g., classic or skate technique).

Questions about the program may be addressed to Trina Hosmer (hosmer@oit.umass.edu).

Our Coaches:

Trina Hosmer

Trina has been cross-country skiing and racing for over 50 years. She was on the first international U.S. women’s team that went to the World Championships in 1970 in Vysocke Tatry, Czechoslavakia, the 1972 Olympic Team in Sapporo, Japan and 1974 World Championship team in Falun, Sweden. Since then she has competed in several World Master’s Championships and won numerous age group medals, AND she is still passionate about cross-country skiing. Trina is also the founder of Stowe Nordic’s Women’s Ski Program.

Carol Hillman Van Dyke

Carol grew up in Stowe downhill skiing, with her first foray on cross country wooden skis in 1973 at Trapp’s. Since then the sport has been a constant in her life. She worked at the Mansfield Touring Center in 1980 and returned to teach skiing there for the past 12 years. She has been Event Director for many Stowe Nordic events at Trapp Family Lodge including the 2006 Bill Koch Festival, the 2007 NENSA Eastern High School Championships, many Eastern Cups and UVM Winter Carnivals, a Super Tour, and NCAA Championships. Carol had three kids that all went through the Stowe BKL program where Carol was a BKL Coach from 1996 to 2002. She was a former president of Stowe Nordic Club, and the Stowe High School Nordic ski coach from 2001 to 2018. She is a past President of the New England Nordic Ski Association board, a USSA Level 2 certified coach, a Level 1 Technical Delegate, and a masters competitor though with diminishing speed. Carol loves to share with others her enthusiasm for skiing.

Leigh Mallory

Leigh started and coached the first Colchester High School Nordic Ski Team in 1978.  He coached the team for 32 years. During that time he had several state championship teams and individual state medalists, one who went on to ski for the US Biathlon Team at the Olympics in Nagano, Japan.  Leigh coached numerous New England J2 and Eastern HS Championship teams.  He was very active in ski racing on the Masters Circuit up until 2021 and attended several World Masters Championships upon retiring from teaching.

Dave Hosmer

Dave has been skiing cross-country since high school when he also did ski jumping. He skied on the University of Vermont Ski Team for four years and by his senior year a regular top 10 finisher in the Eastern Collegiate Carnival circuit. Dave and wife Trina were active racers in New England for the Putney Ski Club for more than 30 years. After moving to Stowe in 2005, both promoted a weekly nordic ski training group which grew into the Stowe Nordic Master’s Training Program. Now retired from the University of Massachusetts as a Professor of Statistics, Dave enjoys teaching a new set of students how to ski more efficiently.

Robyn Anderson

Robyn grew up skiing in the Stowe Bill Koch program (thank you to Carol Van Dyke & Stowe Nordic!) and went on to ski for Middlebury College and at two NCAAs. After college she worked at Trapps teaching skiing and coaching a local running and xc-skiing program while continuing to race the regional ski marathons as well as a few world loppets over the years, including team favorite: back-to-back marathons at the Gatineau Loppet. Now she enjoys getting out in the backyard mountains on her 3-pins, early morning skis at Trapps, and helping out with the Stowe Nordic Masters program!

Please Read our Waiver & Liability Release Policy here.

(Membership for the current year is required for all programs. If you are not a member already you can join here during program registration.)

Questions about registration and payment may be addressed to registrar@stowenordic.org