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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April 21, 2012

Bogus Basin Ski Education Foundation Annual Meeting and Banquet

 The BBSEF Banquet and Annual meeting will be April 21^st, at Westys Garden Lanes by the fairgrounds in Garden City, from 12:30-3:30 pm.  

Schedule of events:

• 12:30 Annual Meeting
• 1:00 – 3:00: Bowling & pizza.
• 3:00 – 3:30: Awards

 The cost is $20.00 for adults and $17.00 for Children ages 6-12, 5 and under are free.  This includes: bowling, shoe rental, pizza, salad and soda.

 Below is an RSVP to be returned to the BBSEF office with your payment by Tuesday, April 17^th.  This banquet is for all of our BBSEF programs.  We hope to see everyone at the banquet.

 Annual Meeting:  The annual meeting of the Bogus Basin Ski Education Foundation will begin at 12:30 pm.  You do not have to attend the banquet/bowling to attend the annual meeting.  There is no charge for coming to the meeting only.  The agenda for the annual meeting will include:  The election of board members and a year-end review of programs, financials and fund-raising. You must be present to vote, proxies will not be accepted.  Results will be announced after the awards.

The nominees for the board positions are: Mark Menlove and Fred Stackpole.

Please RSVP by Tuesday, April 17^th. If you have any questions please contact Shannon at shannon@BBSEF.org or 336-5295. Thank you and again we look forward to seeing you on the 21^st, at Westys Garden Lanes.

Your tickets will be available at the door.

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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Thank you to all of our BBSEF Families.  Today’s ski like a pirate fun day really was a lot of fun!  It is also the last day of Mitey Mites, Development Team, North Series and Team Shred for the 2011-2012 ski season.  It has been a challenging snow year but thanks to the positive attitudes of the parents, athletes and coaches it has been a great season.  Our spring sign up special runs through May 1st.  Registration forms are available on the website or email Shannon.  We hope to see you at the annual banquet on April 21, 2012.

This is the final race weekend of the season, along with the busiest, most fun packed weekend of the season! All BBSEF Mitey Mite, Devo Home, Team Shred, Team Shred Elite and North Series Team members are entered in all four events. Team Shredders that don’t want to participate in the race events should meet their coaches at 9:30 am.  For everyone competing in the races we’ll kick off Saturday at 8:45am with competitors meeting at the flags. We will have a 2 run Slalom before lunch. After lunch is the Gelande Jump Competition. As usual the planned end of the day is 3:30. Sunday we again meet at 8:45am at the flags. We will have a 2 run Giant Slalom in the morning. In addition we will start the Skier Cross preliminary races while the racers are waiting to start their 1^st GS run. The Skier Cross Sub Finals will be held while the racers wait for their 2^nd run start. The Skier Cross Finals will be after lunch. With so many events packed into one weekend we need volunteer help please contact Tessa McCollum at tessamccollum@q.com.  

Only Mitey Mite, Devo Home Team and Team Shred members who compete in all four events and who are not disqualified in the SL or GS are eligible for the overall combined award.  We hope to have the awards ceremony just after 3:00pm.

Congratulations to all of the competitiors at the Michael B. Young Big Mountain Event.  Thank you to all of the volunteers, coaches and Bogus Basin for putting on a great event!

Michael B. Young Big Mountain Competition
Rescheduled for March 4th, 2012, Bogus Basin, ID

Registration Deadline:  Friday March 2, 2012 noon at the BBSEF
Registration Form
office Cost:$12.00
No event day registration.
LOCATION:  Top of Pine Creek chair (#6), section right under this chair.
PRACTICE: Inspection and practice starts Saturday at 9:30 am to 10:15pm
START TIME:  J1-J5, 10:15 am   or J6-J7, 1:15 pm

How it works:

Each skier will have a judged run (J5 and older may have 2 runs). Skiers will be judged in 5 categories: 

1. Line difficulty.  This is a predetermined value and all judges will agree on the value of the line skied by each skier.
2. Control:  The first category judged following the line value determination.    It’s at the top of the list as it’s considered most important.  A fall is the ultimate loss of control and will most likely have an impact on the remaining 3 categories to be judged.    A fall with a skillful recovery (such as a forward roll, ending up on skis and not stopping) may reduce the penalty and will also have less impact on the remaining 3 categories.
3. Fluidity:  Constant direction toward the goal.  Keeping your body moving down the fall line of the mountain.  Keeping continuity and pace with smooth transitions for obstacles or jumps.
4. Form and technique:  Style, technical ability, etc.  Taking air, doing tricks in the air, is accounted for in this category.  Not only jumps or tricks are judged here though…proper skiing form and technique is huge here.  All the stuff that coaches preach day in and day out…pole plants, hands staying forward,  keeping the eyes and focus down the hill, proper angulation to help stay under control, etc.
5. Aggressiveness (Attack):  The energy one skis with.  Is the skier attacking the hill (again with a purpose), or simply getting down the run?  This is an area where it’s important to choose a line that the skier’s comfortable with so they’re able to ski more aggressively at their ability level.

Judging Each judge will independently judge categories 2-5  on a scale of 1-10.   The line score will weight the scale score, depending on the line chosen.  The judges will not be able to score more than 2 points above the line value that’s chosen.  Example.  If a skier skis a line with a predetermined value of 6, then the highest score that skier can get for categories 2-5 would be 8 points in each category. All four judges scores will be averaged for each round. The best score of the two runs will determine the skier’s final score

Some things to remember:

• We have a panel of 5 judges.  All judges are experienced skiers.  These judges are independent of BBSEF and they are not coaches or parents of any athletes.
• This is a competition about quality skiing.   Although guts, air, tricks and style are factored in, we want to encourage the best skiing as explained in the 5 categories above.
• This isn’t just about taking the highest point line, or getting the biggest air, etc.  While those are good if handled well, a fall or loss of control because someone’s skiing beyond their ability level, will most likely result in a much lower score.
• Skiers will have a time limit.  We’ll establish an acceptable timeframe that all skiers should be able to finish within.  Obviously some of the younger age groups will have longer allowable times than the older groups.  If a skier falls, loses a ski, etc, but is still able to finish the run in the allotted time, they will receive a score.
  • If a skier is not able to finish in the allotted amount of time, then they’ll be scored on the run up until the point where they ran out of time, but will be penalized for not finishing.
  • This is about FUN!  This is a way for skiers to challenge themselves in an arena they’re not used to.
  • Bring your helmet…helmets are required!!!

We’ll need lots of volunteer help, setting up, hauling equipment to the area, cleaning up, cheering on all kids, and helping to keep wandering skiers out of the course during the competition.