Special Events

The 2026 Cycle Outing is live and already booking up. This year’s focus is the newly completed Rail Trail extending from Lake Placid to Tupper Lake. The outing will be held June 14–19. Please help us promote this to your members, this is an exciting opportunity to experience this incredible corridor together.  

For more information: ADK Cycle Outing 2026 | Adirondack Mountain Club

Due to overwhelming interest in this event, we will have two groups of no more than 25 participants in each group. Total limit: 50. We will start a waitlist if needed. The cost for the two tours is $20 / person.

Here is what Lynn needs to know:

1) Will you be attending?

2) In which additional, OPTIONAL activity will you be participating? (choose

one)

 Biathlon (+ $25 / person)

 Wheeled Luge (+ $55 / person)

 Mountain Coaster Ride (+ $45 / person)

 I will not be participating in an optional activity

Please email Lynn at rendiandbutter@gmail.com or call 518. 240. 6162

Description: Spend a full day touring and experiencing the Olympic facilities at Mount Van Hoevenberg, including:
10:00 Group A- Jack Mullholland Legacy Tour / Group B- Mark Vandenberg bobsled

tour
11:30 Lunch: Bring your own lunch. We will meet and eat as a group on the third floor.

1:00 Group A- Mark Vandenberg bobsled tour / Group B- Jack Mullholland Legacy Tour

2:15ish OPTIONAL-- Split into groups and actively participate in Biathlon, Wheeled

Luge or take a Mountain Coaster ride.

Explore Mt Van Hoevenberg’s Olympic past and discover the long lineage of gliding and sliding sports. The informative one-hour guided Legacy Tour begins at the unique Mountain Pass Lodge, allowing you to observe where today’s elite athletes train, and stunning views of the Nordic competition course and the surrounding mountains. The guided tour continues with a visit to the United States’ only Icehouse Push Track and concludes with a trek alongside Mt Van Hoevenberg’s historic sliding track.

But wait, there’s MORE! We will offer a second tour with Mark Vandenberg, the designer and builder of the bobsleds used for the US bobsledding team. Both tours include walking outdoors on uneven terrain in all weather conditions; we strongly recommend closed-toe seasonally appropriate footwear and attire.

The cost for the two tours is $20 / person.

But wait, there’s MORE! For an additional fee, you can try the Wheeled Luge Experience, the Biathlon Experience or the Mountain Coaster Ride. 

Wheeled Luge is offered at 2pm and 3pm and lasts for an hour. An instructor will be with the group and take us out onto our paved roller loop (this does not happen on the bobsled track, but mimics that experience). It is a great introduction to luge using wheeled sleds in a safe setting, led by pro instructors. You will delve into the sport, learn basic techniques and advanced maneuvers while progressing through tailored challenges designed to enhance skills and confidence over multiple runs down the paved loops. Each person will be on his/her individual, wheeled sled without a driver. For a full experience with multiple runs per person, we can accommodate about 10 per hour for wheeled luge, and the group rate is $55/person.

Also offered is a Biathlon Experience, which is very cool! That one will happen out on the Biathlon Field and would include the same individualized attention as wheeled luge from our instructors. The group would get a brief biathlon history lesson, instructions on safety and shooting, and then 2 turns shooting: 5-shot clips with a .22 rifle (or with a Laser Rifle if the group prefers.) Biathlon can accommodate about 12-15 guests at once, and the group rate is $25/person. Depending on how big our group, we can split into two and rotate between different activities.

The Mountain Coaster is re-opening. The coaster runs along the bobsled track and takes you up and through the mountains, imitating what it feels to be like on a bobsled while an audio track plays from built-in-speakers as you ride. It is the longest coaster in North America! The coaster can be booked on the hour from 10am-4pm, can accommodate about 55 guests/hour and costs $45/person.

Meeting Time / Place: 9:30 AM at Mt Van Hoevenberg Ski Center, upstairs, 2 nd fl. 31 Van Hoevenberg Way, Lake Placid, NY 12946

Directions: From I 87-N, take exit 30 for US-9 toward NY-73/Keene Valley/Keene. Turn

left onto US-9N. Drive 2.2 miles and take a slight left onto NY-73 W. Drive 13.1 miles,

and take a slight left to stay on NY-73 W. Drive 7.9 miles and turn left onto Van

Hoevenberg Way. Continue to parking areas.

Contact: Lynn at rendiandbutter@gmail.com or 518. 240. 6162

Medical: AMC Saranac Lake, 2233 NY-86 Saranac Lake, 518.891.4141

This year’s Fall Outing will take place September 18–20 at the Saranac Village Young Life Camp on Upper Saranac Lake. The weekend is being hosted and organized by the strong leadership of the Northwoods Chapter—thank you to that team for taking this on. Registration will be going live soon, so please help spread the word once it does.  For more information: Fall Outing 2026 — Adirondack Mountain Club 

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