The Leland Gliders club—coached by Karen Kirt—will participate in the North American Vasa cross-country ski race near Traverse City this weekend. The Gliders will join for the seventh year in a row. They are the only Leelanau County ski club racing in the Vasa, the region’s preeminent cross-country ski race. Kirt’s group includes two seventh graders, a sixth grader and a fourth grader, all of whom will ski the Junior Vasa on Saturday afternoon.