The 2025-26 Season Individual Challenges
The Individual Challenges have been an annual club activity for many years. For this season, a few more new Challenges have been added. (The "Ski Every Trail, No Lift" has been off the list for a couple of years now. Since it was removed, there have been exactly zero complaints. It will remain off the list! )
These challenges can be done any time during the season. This year's completion spreadsheet is now available.
Once again this year, at the season-end windup get-together (date TBA) the individual challenge participants will get to play poker for prizes. For every challenge that you complete, you will earn one poker card. The more challenges you complete, the more cards you earn and the better your chances for winning some end-of-season prizes!
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Note that the Individual Challenges (except for the 2 Strava Challenges, January and February) can be done at any time during the ski season (but there is completion deadline of March 31st, 2025). 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!
To prevent errors, the spreadsheet is 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. To be added to the spreadsheet, email the club at [email protected] and tell us you want to be added. If you were on last year, you shouldn't need to request again to be added for this year however you can request to be removed. 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 give us a few days to get your name added. (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 (most people also ski over to the top of the Morrisey Chair while they're up there, but you don't have to, because Pony Loop is the high point). You do not have to go to the bottom of the network in between summits and the order doesn't matter.
3. Ski Your Age
Ski your age (as of Dec 31, 2024 ) 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: 750 kms
Platinum: 1000 kms
5. Ski every trail in the Nordic Trail System in one day.
You're allowed to take the chair up. You set your own route but every inch of every trail in the system must be skied. There is no "perfect" route by which you can ski every trail without duplicating some sections. Part of the fun is to devise a route that minimizes this. It will be close to 50 kms depending on how efficient a route you come up with.
6. Ski all the greens.
A much more friendly option. The green trails 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!
7. Ski All the Birds
This is a fun project. The bird-named trails are: Raven Return, Raven Ramble, Chickadee,
Great Gray, Nuthatch, Stellers Jay, Blue Grouse, Whiskeyjack, and Whiskeyjack Loop
8. Ski All the Four-legged Animals
These are: Pony Loop, Holy Cow, Foxtrot, Bear Cub, Black Bear, Cottontail, Otter Loop, Moose Track. (Chairlift assist is allowed!)
9. Ski All the Trails Named after People
Heinz's Way, Sigge's Shortcut, and Phil's Way
Yes, McGillivray was no doubt somebody but we're not including him/her!
10. The Strava Challenges
These take place in the months of January and February, further information here
11. Ski the T-Rex
This event takes place March 7th, and you still get credit for the Individual Challenges , even if you do it as a team
And finally, 12. Night Ski to the Cabin
Self-explanatory. We'll leave it to your judgment as to how dark it needs to be, to be "night"!
The Individual Challenges have been an annual club activity for many years. For this season, a few more new Challenges have been added. (The "Ski Every Trail, No Lift" has been off the list for a couple of years now. Since it was removed, there have been exactly zero complaints. It will remain off the list! )
These challenges can be done any time during the season. This year's completion spreadsheet is now available.
Once again this year, at the season-end windup get-together (date TBA) the individual challenge participants will get to play poker for prizes. For every challenge that you complete, you will earn one poker card. The more challenges you complete, the more cards you earn and the better your chances for winning some end-of-season prizes!
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Note that the Individual Challenges (except for the 2 Strava Challenges, January and February) can be done at any time during the ski season (but there is completion deadline of March 31st, 2025). 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!
To prevent errors, the spreadsheet is 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. To be added to the spreadsheet, email the club at [email protected] and tell us you want to be added. If you were on last year, you shouldn't need to request again to be added for this year however you can request to be removed. 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 give us a few days to get your name added. (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 (most people also ski over to the top of the Morrisey Chair while they're up there, but you don't have to, because Pony Loop is the high point). You do not have to go to the bottom of the network in between summits and the order doesn't matter.
3. Ski Your Age
Ski your age (as of Dec 31, 2024 ) 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: 750 kms
Platinum: 1000 kms
5. Ski every trail in the Nordic Trail System in one day.
You're allowed to take the chair up. You set your own route but every inch of every trail in the system must be skied. There is no "perfect" route by which you can ski every trail without duplicating some sections. Part of the fun is to devise a route that minimizes this. It will be close to 50 kms depending on how efficient a route you come up with.
6. Ski all the greens.
A much more friendly option. The green trails 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!
7. Ski All the Birds
This is a fun project. The bird-named trails are: Raven Return, Raven Ramble, Chickadee,
Great Gray, Nuthatch, Stellers Jay, Blue Grouse, Whiskeyjack, and Whiskeyjack Loop
8. Ski All the Four-legged Animals
These are: Pony Loop, Holy Cow, Foxtrot, Bear Cub, Black Bear, Cottontail, Otter Loop, Moose Track. (Chairlift assist is allowed!)
9. Ski All the Trails Named after People
Heinz's Way, Sigge's Shortcut, and Phil's Way
Yes, McGillivray was no doubt somebody but we're not including him/her!
10. The Strava Challenges
These take place in the months of January and February, further information here
11. Ski the T-Rex
This event takes place March 7th, and you still get credit for the Individual Challenges , even if you do it as a team
And finally, 12. Night Ski to the Cabin
Self-explanatory. We'll leave it to your judgment as to how dark it needs to be, to be "night"!
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