2017 League Wrap Up

Thanks for  the good season!?  Well, thanks for participating in the season!  It was a tough end to our regular season league racing.  With the warm temperatures in February spilling into March, it meant an entire week (much of our week 7) had to be postponed.  We were able to get all of our Wild Mountain races in.  We tried to make up our Buck Hill leagues that were postponed.  We got most of them in except our Monday, Thursday and Friday leagues.  Due to some thin snow coverage, a few turned up rocks, and the lack of cold temperatures, Buck Hill just couldn’t get enough coverage back up at the top of our race run to hold those make up races.

Black Diamond was kind enough to let us have an awards ceremony for each league last week. Fun was had by those who attended with door prize games and awards.


Buck Hill Monday Night Fun!

2016-17 By the Numbers

For the 2016 Preseason season we ended up with 302 racers starts.  This is a 23% decrease from 2016.  Unfortunately, with the slow start to winter, our first week of racing had to be postponed.  Buck Hill Friday was combined with Buck Hill Tuesday.  We were able to get all three weeks of Wild Mountain racing in, but had to get our three week league series crammed into two weeks at Buck Hill.  Buck does not allow racing during the Holiday Break so we just didn’t have enough time for three weeks.  Look for some new ideas for preseason next year.  We are going to attempt to offer more gate training and open races during the December preseason time.

The total number of racer starts for our regular, seven week league series was 6,540.  This was an 11% decrease from 2016.  We will chalk this one up to weather once again.  2017 was the first time in Ski Challenge’s 30 year history that we were not able to complete our seven week league series for three of our 14 leagues.  That decrease probably would be close to non existent if we did not have such a warm February and March.

We appreciate the patience and understanding that our racers have shown during this tough season.  Here’s to hoping for a normal winter next year!