Sunday, March 4, 2012
A Benefit for the Adaptive Sports Center and Crested Butte Ski Club
Click here for the 2011 7 Hours of the Banana Results
Check out photos from 2011!
Individuals: may ski/ride solo for all 7 hours (you may not compete on a team and in the solo category). You may stop/rest as often as you like. Laps will be counted each time you pass through the timing tent at the base area, located to skier’s left of the Silver Queen chair lift.
Tag Team: Don’t want to go it alone? Sign up with 3 of your favorite ski buddies and take on the Banana together! Only one member of a tag team can be on course at any time. Tag teams are limited to 4 people and can be comprised of alpine skiers, telemarkers, snowboarders, monoboarders or any combination there of.
Social Teams: can be of any size. One or all team members can be skiing the Banana at any time. Team members may start at any time from the Silver Queen lift. Laps will be counted when you pass through the timing tent. Team captains are responsible for collecting and submitting team member’s waivers and entry fees. Please turn all forms and payment in together.
How it works: By 8:30 a.m. all participants must have located their skis at the designated area a short ways uphill of the starting line. Le Mans start at 8:50 a.m.: participants will run up to their skis and traverse above both chairlifts down to the Silver Queen lift. Competitors must use the dedicated lift line; do not use other lines open to the public (the Silver Queen will open early for the start). After riding the Silver Queen lift, competitors must ski/ride through the Banana/Flatiron Gate and ski the Banana. The runs to the west -Total Recall, Funnel and Sunset Ridge – can be skied/ridden if open. You may not exit at The Luge/Aspen Park Road.
To finish a lap: From the Banana exit, traverse under the West Wall chairlift across Buckley to Hocheman’s Trail. Continue toward the base area. To have your lap counted: ski through the support tent/ lap timing area just before the Silver Queen lift. Ski into the competitor’s lift line…REPEAT!
**Use CAUTION when approaching intersections…the mountain remains open to the public.**
Aid station: will be provided at the support tent/lap timing tent
Helmets: are required!
Pledging: Enlist the assistance of your friends, family and coworkers in your efforts to conquer the “Banana” in support of the Adaptive Sports Center and the Crested Butte Ski and Snowboard Club! People can pledge per lap (i.e. $2.00 per lap) or a one-time ‘flat’ pledge for completing the event.
All the money you raise will go to support the missions of the Adaptive Sports Center and the Crested Butte Ski and Snowboard Club. Include this link in your fundraising emails http://cbadaptive.wufoo.com/forms/7-hours-of-the-banana-pledge-2012/ to direct people to pledge online. Click here to pledge!
Registration: Is limited to 100 athletes! Registration is now open.
Fees:
Adult Solo athlete or member of a Social Team $50.00
Adult Tag Team $180.00
Youth (17 and under) Solo athlete or member of a Social Team $25.00
Youth Tag Team $80.00
Youth or Adult lift ticket $39.00
For more information please contact Emily Girdwood at 970-349-5075 x104
or Kiley Flint at 970-275-2554
Thank you to all our 2012 Sponsors!
Crested Butte Builders • Salomonn • UWax • Mountain Khakis
10th Mountain Division Alpine Acupuncture Alps Mountaineering Benchmade Knife Company Big Stone Publishing The Blue Lion The Brick Oven CB Hand & Foot Care Dansko Denver Botanic Gardens Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Goldminer’s Daughter Lodge Jack’s Plastic Welding Monarch Mountain Osprey Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory/Pizza Hut Ski Cooper Superfeet Swany America Thorlo Voile
MAP
