Pioneer Midwest Blogs

As I look back on my second Birkebeiner, I can confidently say that I learned a lot, gave it my all, and am fired up to race it again next year. Although the race was now a few weeks ago, I thought...

Hannah Rudd recaps her racing experience at 2022 Senior Nationals in Soldier Hollow. Pioneer Midwest sends a big congrats to Hannah for excellent results throughout the week! (Photo by Jackie Schne...

I was able to head to Europe during the holiday season to help support the US Ski Team at the 2021-2022 Tour de Ski. After a very successful period 1 of racing, Team Birkie athlete Zak Ketterson qu...

Nichole Bathe joins Pioneer Midwest as an on-staff coach for on snow and rollerski treadmill training!   Nichole grew up in Madison, Wisconsin where she raced the midwest junior circuit before acce...

The season is kicking off! Hannah writes about her last few weeks before the season starts up with racing this weekend up in Duluth with the Supertour.   Hello! Writing to you all from up in the cl...

Hello! Hannah here, checking in from Park City, Utah where we are just wrapping up our fall training camp. The past 10 days have been filled with intensity sessions, some quality distance workouts,...

We are happy to announce our partnership with Bridger Ski Foundation athlete Hannah Rudd from Plymouth, MN. Hannah will be working with Pioneer Midwest to share stories from the racing circuit and ...

I have just returned from a long hiatus from the shop on a trip out west with Team Birkie. For the latter half of July we planned on spending two weeks in Bozeman to work on a base volume block and...

This will be the first installment of a new blog series that I will be writing. I am the service manager at Pioneer Midwest and am also in charge of any of the programming and coaching that is done...

One of the most important pieces to the fast ski puzzle, grinding new skis ensures optimal speed out of your ski investment.   With hand-picked skis arriving and heading out the door to customers, ...

*Above you can see the difference between factory structure vs high-quality Nordic structure machines like our Tazzari. There is a big difference in grind/speed quality. We recommend grinding all ...

Jeremy Hecker has been hired at Pioneer Midwest as the fulltime race service manager. Hecker was most recently employed as the head Nordic ski coach as the University of Wisconsin Green Bay. “Jerem...

  Matt Liebsch talks training and other topics during a weekly training vlog:  WATCH HERE

  Matt and Adam had a big European ski picking trip. They made stops in Norway and Austria to visit and pick skis at Madshus, Salomon, Atomic and Fischer. Check out videos of their travels in the ...

This June we had our first ski picking trip of the summer. It was a little early for us, as Adam is still in mountain bike mode and I am enjoying some roller skiing. But traveling for ski picking r...

Last week on Monday and Tuesday, Adam Johnson and I traveled to Utah to select skis from the Rossignol US distribution center/race center for both customers on our pick list and for our base invent...

Just a few weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to make a quick trip across the pond to pick skis at the Amer Sports ski factory. Salomon and Atomic both fall under the Amer Sports umbrella and their ...