The 2023-24 season Individual Challenges
These can be done any time during the season. This year's completion spreadsheet is now available.
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The Individual Challenges have been an annual club activity for many years. For this season, the Challenges will remain the same as last year, except, in an effort to make them "kinder and gentler", the "Ski Every Trail, No Lift" has been removed. (If a lot of people really miss it, it can be put back in next year!)
Don't forget to check out the Team Distance Challenge as well!
Note that the Individual Challenges can be done at any time during the ski season (they're not tied to specific dates like the the Team Challenge and there is no completion deadline). Each challenge is independent and cannot be combined with another except the 2 events, Ski Your Age and Ski Every Trail. For example, if you are 40 and ski every trail in one day, you have also skied your age. Or, If you are 48 and ski every trail in one day you can top up your mileage to 48 and you will have skied your age.
Once again we will have an online spreadsheet where you can enter your completed challenges, and also see what the other individual challengers have been up to! Click the button link at the top of this page.
To prevent errors, it's set up so that you can only check off items in your own line but not for anyone else, so everyone has to enter their own data. The spreadsheet had to be rebuilt this year, so some names may be missing. To add your name to the spreadsheet, email the club at [email protected] and tell us you want to be added. We will also need the email address associated with your Google account, but that doesn't necessarily need to be a gmail address. We have to do this manually for each member, so your name may not appear for a day or two. (Note that to access the spreadsheet you will need to be signed in to your Google Account.)
THE CHALLENGES:
1. Holy Cow Ascent
Ski from the bottom of the network up Holy Cow to the top of the Morrisey lift and back down. You do not have to go around Pony Loop.
2. Twin Peaks
Ski from the bottom of the network to the top of Stellar Jay and to the top of Pony Loop in one trip. You do not have to go to the bottom in between summits and it doesn’t matter which peak you ascend first.
3. Ski Your Age
Ski your age (as of Dec 31, 2023 ) in one day. If you are over 50 you have the option to either ski 100 minus your age in one day OR you may ski your actual age within 24 hours i.e. start the afternoon of one day, finish the next morning.
4. Cumulative Distance Achievements
Starting with your very first ski of the year, keep track of your kilometres skied.
The achievements are:
Bronze: 250 kms
Silver: 500 kms
Gold: 1,000 kms
And...Ski Every Trail (two versions!)
5. Ski every trail in the Nordic Trail System in one day.
You're allowed to take the chair up. You may set your own route but every inch of every trail in the system must be skied (approx 42 km because some duplication is unavoidable).
6. Ski all the green trails.
A much more friendly option. The greens obviously aren't all connected, in fact several are off by themselves, so you need to ski quite a bit of the network to cover them all. There are many ways to do this but it works out to a little over 20 kms. Don't forget to check the map thoroughly: short trails like Heinz's Way and the WhiskeyJack Loop are easy to overlook!
These can be done any time during the season. This year's completion spreadsheet is now available.
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The Individual Challenges have been an annual club activity for many years. For this season, the Challenges will remain the same as last year, except, in an effort to make them "kinder and gentler", the "Ski Every Trail, No Lift" has been removed. (If a lot of people really miss it, it can be put back in next year!)
Don't forget to check out the Team Distance Challenge as well!
Note that the Individual Challenges can be done at any time during the ski season (they're not tied to specific dates like the the Team Challenge and there is no completion deadline). Each challenge is independent and cannot be combined with another except the 2 events, Ski Your Age and Ski Every Trail. For example, if you are 40 and ski every trail in one day, you have also skied your age. Or, If you are 48 and ski every trail in one day you can top up your mileage to 48 and you will have skied your age.
Once again we will have an online spreadsheet where you can enter your completed challenges, and also see what the other individual challengers have been up to! Click the button link at the top of this page.
To prevent errors, it's set up so that you can only check off items in your own line but not for anyone else, so everyone has to enter their own data. The spreadsheet had to be rebuilt this year, so some names may be missing. To add your name to the spreadsheet, email the club at [email protected] and tell us you want to be added. We will also need the email address associated with your Google account, but that doesn't necessarily need to be a gmail address. We have to do this manually for each member, so your name may not appear for a day or two. (Note that to access the spreadsheet you will need to be signed in to your Google Account.)
THE CHALLENGES:
1. Holy Cow Ascent
Ski from the bottom of the network up Holy Cow to the top of the Morrisey lift and back down. You do not have to go around Pony Loop.
2. Twin Peaks
Ski from the bottom of the network to the top of Stellar Jay and to the top of Pony Loop in one trip. You do not have to go to the bottom in between summits and it doesn’t matter which peak you ascend first.
3. Ski Your Age
Ski your age (as of Dec 31, 2023 ) in one day. If you are over 50 you have the option to either ski 100 minus your age in one day OR you may ski your actual age within 24 hours i.e. start the afternoon of one day, finish the next morning.
4. Cumulative Distance Achievements
Starting with your very first ski of the year, keep track of your kilometres skied.
The achievements are:
Bronze: 250 kms
Silver: 500 kms
Gold: 1,000 kms
And...Ski Every Trail (two versions!)
5. Ski every trail in the Nordic Trail System in one day.
You're allowed to take the chair up. You may set your own route but every inch of every trail in the system must be skied (approx 42 km because some duplication is unavoidable).
6. Ski all the green trails.
A much more friendly option. The greens obviously aren't all connected, in fact several are off by themselves, so you need to ski quite a bit of the network to cover them all. There are many ways to do this but it works out to a little over 20 kms. Don't forget to check the map thoroughly: short trails like Heinz's Way and the WhiskeyJack Loop are easy to overlook!
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