Greetings to all,

We have made final plans for our Mount Hood Summer Camp. We will be spending 6 days skiing on the Palmer Snowfield up at Mt Hood.  Dates will be Sunday July 29 to Friday August 3.  We will travel from Boise Saturday July 28 and return after skiing Friday. Cost for the camp will be $725.  This will include transportation, Lifts, food, coaching, salt and lodging (camping).

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Spring Ski Racing Across the Great Plains

What happens when skiing takes you out of the Intermountain Division? You might go north to Schweitzer.  You might go south to Mammoth.  You might go east to Aspen. Or you might go cross Northern Rockies, skirt down the Missouri River valley, cross over the northern divide in to the Hudson’s Bay valley, back into the Mississippi river valley and finally into the upper reaches of the Ste. Lawrence river valley to a place called Lutsen Minnesota.

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BBSEF kids had a busy weekend.  We had kids at three different venues.

The BBSEF hosted the 61^st annual Cranston Cup.  This event is one of the longest standing races in the country.  It has been a race for all ages. It started out in the 50’s as a local event that attracted skiers from as far away as Sun Valley and Mc Call. It was started by a group of local skiers with local auto dealer Walter Cranston as the race benefactor.  To this day, the Cranston Family supports the event.   It was staged as a Downhill, slalom combined event with the Downhill run off Majestic and down the gully to Chair  Three.    Later it was a PNSA elite event. In 1985 Bogus Basin joined the Intermountain Division and the Cup was part of our Intermountain J1.2 series IM Cup.  It remained a DH/SL combo until the late 80’s when it became a GS SL combo. About 2000 the event was turned into a north series event and has found a home there ever since. This year the trophy went to BBSEF skier Caton Langston. Caton had a second Saturday and a third Sunday which was good enough for the combined. Sun Valley’s Pilar Pennell was the girls winner.

The J3’s were at the Sean Nurse Memorial race at Snow King Resort.  This is a J3 qualifier for the WR J3 Championships.  Lance Gary, Stockton Troyer and Dave Heil all made the front page (top 15) with Stockton taking 3^rd in the slalom.  Jessica Kochaver also made the front page at Snow King – 14th in GS.

At Sun Valley the J1 and 2’s were facing some tough competition from some U of Montana FIS kids.  Graham Black had another good GS showing and his brother Garrett showed some spunk riding the ruts to a great finish in the last GS.  Way to go Blaster!!

All in all, the team is healthy and strong.  This is due to the early training we had in Colorado, Sun Valley and Snow King.

This weekend, mist of the team will be at Bogus Basin training.  We all are looking forward to some good skiing and a shot at the new lift.  See all there.

Kenny

Many thanks for your patience and enthusiasm with our start at Tamarack.
You were very instrumental in saving our season. With Bogus Basin fully
open, we will be back in familiar ground. Things will be back to a standard
routine.
I would also like to thank those of you who helped at the Cranston cup in
set up and tear down.  It is difficult at best to host a race at home let
alone away. We brought our entire compliment of event gear to host this
event.  Our Parent crew did an outstanding job as course workers,
gatekeepers, officials. I knew that we were in good shape when, on Saturday
morning, all officials and gatekeepers were in place 15 minutes before the
scheduled start!
Thanks to our race Chairmen, Sam Langston and Brenden Fitzgerald for
organizing that group.  With the job done so well, just think how well it
will go when we host at home.
Thanks always go to Bobby and James Garrison for their timing. Joining them
was IMD’s volunteer of the year Gil Denis at starter, keeping three to 4 on
course at time.
Special thanks go to the crew at Tamarack for their hospitality. We owe them
one!
So goes the season.  I look forward to some powder at Bogus.
Thanks to all
Kenny