Great Nordeen Nordic and Fat Bike Race 2025

Great Nordeen Nordic and Fat Bike Race 2025 was fat tire bike cycling event category multisport, race, ride in United States, state Oregon and was organized for the first time in 2004. The edition Great Nordeen Nordic and Fat Bike Race 2025 took place on Sunday 09 February 2025 with departure in Bend, County Deschutes, Oregon.

Great Nordeen Nordic and Fat Bike Race is offering 1 routes (15 km) for fat tire bike

Organizer: The Great Nordeen is held annually in honor of Central Oregon Ski Pioneer Emil Nordeen. Known in Bend in the 1930s as the ‘Iron Man,’ or the ‘Old War Horse,’ Nordeen fashioned weight training systems out of concrete-filled coffee cans, carved his own 8-foot long skis from scrap lumber and developed his own brand of pine-tar ski wax. A well-known adventurer and mountaineer in the Cascades, Nordeen helped found the first search and rescue organization in Bend. He played the violin, pipe organ, piano, guitar, and loved to gamble. Nordeen won the Crater Lake Wilderness Race twice- once at age 43 and again at age 45. The race was a grueling 42-mile course from Fort Klamath to Crater Lake Lodge gaining 2,800 feet in elevation.