Latest Nordic skiing Podcast Episodes
Episode 61: Not Main Street
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - July 01, 2024 00:45 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Birkie finish line podcast was a bit different this year
Episode 60: Birkie week weather
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - February 20, 2024 02:45 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBirkie week weather with Ketzel Levens
Episode 59: What's in store for 2024
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - February 13, 2024 04:55 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWe check in with Ben Popp to get the DL on the 2024 race. There's something for everyone, even if it's not what we're used to.
Episode 58: Hope, Despair and the Birkie: Ketzel Levens from the NWS checks in
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - February 03, 2024 03:55 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWeather is interesting as always, and in this sense I mean "interesting" in both the upper Midwest sense and the rest of the world sense.
Episode 57: A very late, and very special, Main Street
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - December 15, 2023 03:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsOur longest single podcast ever, and worth the wait. For me, at least.
Episode 56: Wednesday Weather Update
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - February 22, 2023 20:55 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsKetzel Levens joins once again for a last minute weather check-in. You can find the point forecast she mentions at www.weather.gov/forecastpoints.
Episode 55: SNOW STORM UPDATE
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - February 20, 2023 15:55 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsKetzel Levens joins for an update on the midweek snowstorm. No need to think snow or pray for snow, it's coming!
Episode 54: Trail and Weather Updates
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - February 18, 2023 02:55 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsA two-parter a week before Birkie Day, with updates from Birkie Staff and a weather discussion with meteorologist Ed Liebsch.
Episode 53: Earth Rider's Tim Nelson
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - February 14, 2023 22:55 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsEarth Rider Brewery's founder Tim Nelson stops by to talk about how they have become the official beer of the Birkie, as well as to give some beer recommendations for your last days of training.
Episode 52: Weather with Ketzel Levens
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - January 31, 2023 19:55 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsOur staff meteorologist stops by to talk about the weather which has graced the northwoods so far this year.
Episode 51: Winter Preview with Ben Popp
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - December 18, 2022 04:33 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBen Popp joins us for our regular-ish winter preview
Episode 50: Julia Kern
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - October 06, 2022 19:22 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJulia Kern joins to discuss her first WorldLoppet Race in Australia.
Episode 49: Main Street Part 2
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - August 05, 2022 19:22 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWe're back on Main Street, and the Lake, and the Moccasin. Thanks to Earth Rider for "sponsoring" the podcast. And take the listener survey at tinyurl.com/cowbellfeversurvey
Episode 48: Birkie to Boston
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - April 08, 2022 01:22 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHear from a dozen Birkie skiers who are, seven weeks later, running the Boston Marathon. Also, be sure to take the podcast listener survey at tinyurl.com/cowbellfeversurvey
Episode 47: Main Street (Part 1)
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - March 04, 2022 01:22 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsRelive the Birkie with part 1 of our Main Street podcast.
Post-race Podcast Party
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - February 25, 2022 19:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsCome on over to the Post-race Podcast Party.
Episode 46: Final Weather Update
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - February 23, 2022 03:22 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsCowbell Fever Chief Meteorologist Ketzel Levens joins to talk weather.
Episode 45: Birkie Staff and a weather update
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - February 18, 2022 01:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBen and Kristy join from the Birkie office in Downtown Hayward for a check-in on race prep, and then Cowbell Fever Chief Meteorologist Ketzel Levens joins to talk weather.
Episode 44: Jessica Yeaton on Beijing to Birkie, and a weather update with Ketzel Levens
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - February 09, 2022 17:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin in to hear from 2020 Birkie Champion Jess Yeaton who is on the Australian ski team in Beijing, and before that a weather update from Cowbell Fever Chief Meteorologist Ketzel Levens
Episode 43: Jeremy Hecker on waxing
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - February 01, 2022 15:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJeremy Hecker from Pioneer Midwests joins to talk coaching, race waxing for the Birkie, at the Tour de Ski and leading PMW's race wax team this year.
Episode 42: Spencer Pauly on SkiWise
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - January 15, 2022 16:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsSpencer Pauly joins to talk about his trail report app, SkiWise. Also, a recap of the Birkie's recent Q and A session.
Taylor Fletcher: Veteran Heads to Fourth Olympics
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - January 02, 2022 16:42 - 46 minutesSteamboat Springs native Taylor Fletcher claimed a spot on his fourth Olympic team with a win in the Christmas Day Olympic Trials in Lake Placid. In his Ticket to Fly interview with Peter Graves, Fletcher speaks to the evolution he's experienced in nordic combined and the bright future h...
Jeff Hastings: Pride of Norwich, VT
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - November 14, 2021 18:45 - 50 minutesFor the last few decades, few communities have produced more Olympians than Norwich, VT. In 1984, Jeff Hastings came within an eyelash of the first U.S. ski jumping Olympic medal since 1924. Today, Hastings continues to give back to the sport as a behind the scenes leader. His longtime c...
Episode 41: Ian Torchia and Rosie Frankowski
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - November 10, 2021 16:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsToday we look back to one of the most epic Birkies, last year's classic race, with the race winners.
Episode 40: We're back!
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - October 30, 2021 16:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAfter a summer hiatus, the podcast returns to talk to Ben Popp about the summer that was and the winter ahead.
Andreas Küttel: World Champion Reminisces About the Ski Jumping Family
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - June 19, 2021 20:30 - 39 minutesThe ski jumping family vividly recalls that day in 2009 when Swiss Andreas Küttel became a world champion in Liberec. Growing up in the small Swiss village of Einsiedln, Küttel became captivated by ski jumping which took from from rolling hills in the midwestern USA to towering scaffolds...
Sarah Hendrickson: Passionate Sport Pioneer
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - April 18, 2021 21:55 - 41 minutesSince she followed her brother off a ski jump at age six, world champion and Olympian Sarah Hendrickson's life has revolved around her passion for ski jumping. In this insightful interview with Ticket to Fly host Peter Graves, Hendrickson shares the highs and the lows of a career that pu...
Johnny Spillane: Reflections of a Champion
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast - April 02, 2021 00:14 - 44 minutesOver the span of a decade, Johnny Spillane led the U.S. Nordic Combined Ski Team to its greatest heights with a World Championship title and three Olympic medals. Today, he reflects on his career from his boyhood home in Steamboat Springs with Ticket to Fly host Peter Graves.
Episode 39: Birkie Week Weather
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - February 23, 2021 03:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsMeteorologist Ketzel Levens returns to talk about Birkie Week Weather
Episode 38: Birkie 2021 Staff Preview
Cowbell Fever: a Birkie Podcast - February 19, 2021 17:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBen and Kristy join to talk through the 2021 race. Plus, how you can send in audio files of your 2021 Birkie experience!
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