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	Bousquet Race Team Website

Welcome to the Bousquet Ski Area Race Team website.

Here we will have information for all of the race events at Bousquet, including the Tri-State program, Interclub, Development Team, High School Race League and the Adult Race League.

To contact the Bousquet Ski Club about a race entry, please email Michelle at:

You can fax your entry to the race secretary at 413-332-0378 or mail to Bousquet Ski Club, 101 Dan Fox Drive, Pittsfield, MA 01201, Attention Race Secretary. Checks should be made payable to Bousquet Ski Club. The Race Entry Form is on our documents page: bousquetskiclub.org/Documents.asp

All entry deadline dates close 5 days prior to the race date.

Let us know what additional info you would like to see on the site.

Michelle Latimer

Bill Martin

	HEADLINES

Race Volunteers Needed!!
We will be hosting our last two race team races...
Interclub Race Results
Interclub 01/10/10 - Blanford files.LeagueAthletics.com/Images/Club/4024/2010 Race...
Snapfish Photos - J 345 Blanford / Interclub Butternut
Snapfish is an online photo service by HP. Here...
Adult Race League Week 4
Adult Race League 01/05/10 Week 1 files.LeagueAthletics.com/Images/Club/4024/2010 Race...
High School SL Race
Here’s the preliminary schedule for your...
2nd Annual Sasha's Race
The 2nd Annual Sasha's Memorial Race will be...
High School Results Posted
01/04/10 GS Week 1 files.LeagueAthletics.com/Images/Club/4024/2010 Race...
J1 J2 SL Results Posted
Here are the results from the J1 J2 SL at Bousquet: files.LeagueAthletics.com/Images/Club/4024/2010...
Message from Catamount for Interclub Race
Below is a message from Catamount regarding the...
Race Team Banquet
At the end of the year banquet last year a couple...
High School Races on PCTV - Channel 17
As you may know, Jim Balfanz has been videoing...
2010 Race Schedule
Senior, JI and JII SCHEDULE 12/27/09 ...
Bib Deposit
For the 2010 Tri State Races held at Bousquet,...
Stunt Wax
Below is a message from Greg Jones, our...
Bousquet History
Check this out: http://www.teachski.com/Areas/bousquet/cbousquet.htm http://www.teachski.com/Areas/bousquet/bousquet2.htm Founded...

	Race Volunteers Needed!!

by posted 02/08/2010

We will be hosting our last two race team races of the year and we need volunteers.

2/20 - J4 Slalom Championships
2/28 - Interclub GS

We need many volunteers, so if you can help with 1 or both races e-mail Michelle @

	Interclub Race Results

by posted 02/08/2010

Interclub

01/10/10 - Blanford

files.LeagueAthletics.com/Images/Club/4024/2010
Race Results/0110 InterClubBlanford.pdf

Jiminy

files.LeagueAthletics.com/Images/Club/4024/2010
Race Results/Interclub Jiminy.pdf

Catamount

files.LeagueAthletics.com/Images/Club/4024/2010
Race Results/Interclub Catamount.pdf

	Snapfish Photos - J 345 Blanford / Interclub Butternut

by posted 02/07/2010

	Adult Race League Week 4

by posted 02/06/2010

Adult Race League

	High School SL Race

by posted 02/05/2010

Here’s the preliminary schedule for your program for next week. All runs of the show can be seen on Pittsfield ETV (ch. 17) on TimeWarner Cable in Pittsfield, Dalton and Richmond. Please note that scheduled times are sometimes subject to change. Feel free to pass this email and schedule information along to interested teachers, students and parents :

2/8/2010 at 6:00 PM
2/9/2010 at 9:00 AM
2/11/2010 at 9:30 PM
2/13/2010 at 8:00 AM
2/13/2010 at 9:00 PM

And here’s a link where you can check future plays, and see a video on demand version of the program:

http://pittsfieldtv.dyndns.org/Cablecast/Public/Show.aspx?ChannelID=2&ShowID=12530

Enjoy!

--Shawn

	2nd Annual Sasha's Race

by posted 02/04/2010

The 2nd Annual Sasha's Memorial Race will be held at Bousquet on Friday, February 19, 2010. Registration will begin at 5:00 p.m. with the race starting at 7:00 p.m. Registration fee is $25.00. Open to all ages and disciplines. Prizes will be awarded. For further information contact Cindy @ 413-442-8316 X27

All proceeds to benefit the homeless animals at Berkshire Humane Society.

http://files.leagueathletics.com/Text/Documents/4024/11115.pdf

	High School Results Posted

by posted 02/03/2010

01/04/10 GS Week 1

files.LeagueAthletics.com/Images/Club/4024/2010
Race Results/0104HighSchool 2010GSLweek1.pdf

01/11/10 GS Week 2

files.LeagueAthletics.com/Images/Club/4024/2010
Race Results/0111HighSchool 2010GSLweek2.pdf

01/20/10 GS Week 3

files.LeagueAthletics.com/Images/Club/4024/2010
Race Results/0120HighSchool2010GSweek3.pdf

02/01/10 SL Week 1

files.LeagueAthletics.com/Images/Club/4024/2010
Race Results/0201_High_School_2010_SL_week1_.pdf

02/03/10 SL Week 2

files.LeagueAthletics.com/Images/Club/4024/2010 Race Results/0203_High_Schoo_2010_SL_week2.pdf

	J1 J2 SL Results Posted

by posted 02/01/2010

Here are the results from the J1 J2 SL at Bousquet:

files.LeagueAthletics.com/Images/Club/4024/2010 Race Results/0131 J12 Slalom Results.pdf

Thanks.

	Message from Catamount for Interclub Race

by posted 01/29/2010

Below is a message from Catamount regarding the Interclub race this weekend.

Sunday's Interclub Run list and results can be found online at Http://www.live-timing.com/races.php Click on the date and you will see Catamount. The times will be fed to that site. Please pass this to all of your parents.

	Race Team Banquet

by posted 01/27/2010

At the end of the year banquet last year a couple of people approached me about taking over the banquet since Lynne and I will no longer be able to do it. I have since misplaced their contact information. If those people and anyone else who might be interesed in helping out could e-mail me so the planning for the banquet could begin that would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Michelle

	High School Races on PCTV - Channel 17

by posted 01/26/2010

As you may know, Jim Balfanz has been videoing the High School races and they are being shown on Pittsfield Community TV - Time Warner Channel 17.

Here is the schedule for this week:

1/30/2010 at 8:00 AM
1/30/2010 at 9:00 PM
1/31/2010 at 4:00 AM

We may not be able to post the schedule ever week, but it can be found on PCTV's website:

http://www.pittsfieldtv.net/Cablecast/Public/Main.aspx?ChannelID=2

There’s a search box on the upper left part of the page. Type the word "ski" into the box and hit search. The database will return a list of all the programs containing "ski," and that will contain the latest programs and when they’re scheduled.

Enjoy!

Bill Martin

	2010 Race Schedule

by posted 12/14/2009

Senior, JI and JII SCHEDULE

12/27/09 Schaeffer Cup SL Berkshire East

1/3/10 Bousquet SL Bousquet

1/10/10 Wachusett GS* Wachusett

1/16/10 Blandford SL* Blandford

1/24/10 Siebert Cup GS* Berkshire East

1/31/10 Bousquet SL* Bousquet

2/7/10 Jiminy GS Jiminy Peak

* Opened to 2^nd year JIII’s

JIII – JV SCHEDULE

1/10/10 Denis Cup GS Berkshire East

1/24/10 Bousquet SL Bousquet

1/31/10 Jiminy GS Jiminy Peak

2/7/10 Blandford SL Blandford

2/13/10 JIII Championship GS Berk. East

2/14/10 JIII Championship SL Eagle Brook

2/20/10 JIV Championship SL Bousquet

2/21/10 JIV Championship GS JiminyPeak

2/28/10 Open SL Butternut

INTERCLUB SCHEDULE

1/10/10 Blandford GS Blandford

1/24/10 Jiminy GS Jiminy Peak

1/31/10 Catamount GS Catamount

2/7/10 Butternut SL Butternut

2/21/10 Otis SL Otis

2/28/10 Bousquet GS Bousquet

	Bib Deposit

by posted 12/14/2009

For the 2010 Tri State Races held at Bousquet, we will be collecting a $20.00 deposit or drivers license which we will return when you turn in your race bib.

	Stunt Wax

by posted 12/10/2009

Below is a message from Greg Jones, our area Stuntwax rep. If anyone is interested you can contact him at or call at 413 281 9210 Cell, 413-442-0501 Home. You can see him on the hill most weekends.

Hi,

I am the local area Representative for Stuntwax at Bousquet Ski Area. Stuntwax is a very easy to use wax for all conditions. It comes in three varieties: Performance, Race, & HyperSpeed. It goes on very easy and does not require scraping! Several of our club athletes are already using this wax with very good results. Please feel free to contact me with questions or to purchase. I already have a supply ready for the season!

Please visit the website for additional information on this unique wax system.

http://www.stuntwax.com/

Greg Jones

	Bousquet History

by posted 11/04/2007

Check this out:

http://www.teachski.com/Areas/bousquet/cbousquet.htm

http://www.teachski.com/Areas/bousquet/bousquet2.htm

Founded by CJ Bousquet in the early 1930's, it is a well known fact that Bousquet has bragging rights to being the first ski area in the United States to make snow, the first to offer night skiing (thanks to a 1936 partnership with GE) and the second mountain in America to install a rope tow. Do you have any other memories? Post them on the Forums page.

Remember the Bousquet Ski Tow Gripper.....Patented by Clare Bousquet in 1939

Clare Bousquet was one of the most successful pioneer entrepreneurs in the United States ski industry. His development and managment of "Bousquets" ski area in Massachussetts displayed a flare and knack for invention that led the way in New England in terms of slope design, snow grooming, lift equipment and on slope construction. He was the Father of Ski Area Entrepreneurship. Bousquets attracted unheard of numbers to its slopes despite its relative small size. President Gerald Ford learned to ski there while studying at Yale. Bousquets was the first to introduce night skiing and was a pioneer in the use of area wide snow making.

Bousquet, who has proven to be a successful entrepreneur was also a successful inventor and innovator. To promote his area he got advertisers to pay the cost of the brochure that advertised his ski area. He also solved a problem that many early skiers faced, tired arms and ripped gloves from the rope tows. In 1939, Bousquet invented and patented the Bousquet Rope Tow Gripper, a nutcracker shaped device attached to a wide belt that attached directly to the rope, leaving the skier’s arms free. Over the next 30 years, more than 500,000 were sold. With skier safety ion mind he also invented a safety gate. This prevented skiers from getting tangled up in the machinery at the top of the hill. Eventually, revenues from his inventions made him more money than the ski area ever did.

	Practice Board

Practice Schedule

INTERCLUB
Practice Sat. 2/7 -Slalom Practice to start @ 9:00 a.m. Meet at the bottom of the blue chair.

Sun. 2/8 - Slalom Race @ Butternut
Tri-StateJ 1,2 Racers:

Sat. 2/7 - GS practice, bring GS skis.

Sun. 2/8 - GS Race @ Jiminy Peak

J 3,4,5 RACERS:
Sat. 2/7 - SL Practice, bring SL skis and all protective SL gear.

Sun. 2/8 - SL race @ Blandford.