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Update as of March 12, 2021

For a variety of reasons, The 2021 Five Peaks has been cancelled.

Restrictions have only recently loosened up enough for competitions to happen. As a result, organizers have jumped into the space creating a scheduling "Compression Effect". 
What's that mean? 
It means a lot of events crunched close to each other. 
I'm so happy to see people competing again.  However, the Compression Effect has squeezed us into a space we're just not comfortable with. So, we are going to pass this year.
What am I talking about?

April 3 Cody's Challenge-Steamboat
April 3 Tellurando-Telluride
April 10 Copper Uphill Extravaganza Race #3
April 12 and 13 Imperial Challenge-Breckenridge

And that's just SkiMo races.

The Breckenridge Ski Resort (BSR) has 6 days of Big Mountain Comps and two days of USSA U18 Giant Slalom National Championships all within the next couple of weeks. T
And the week of the 19th is unvailable as all but Peak 8 will be closed for the season.
As you can see, that's A LOT!
Weekends are a no-go at Breck for competitions this season so that left us with the week of April 5. And to host Five Peaks just two days after Cody's and Telluride and just a few days before Copper's Race #3 and the Imperial just doesn't sit well with us; not to mention the load it would put on our friends at the Breck Ski Resort.

So, The Five Peaks will take this year off and hopefully return in 2022. It will be USSMA Sanctioned and we hope to have a more festival type event with demos, clinics, and possibly two races.
What's our date for 2022? Good question! We will shoot for early April. We've tried for years to go in March and the weather has been an adversary. In April, the snowpack tends to be more stable and the temps have turned warmer; a perfect combo given the amount of above treeline exposure and wind on this course.
For now, please consider one of the other events listed above (especially Imperial Challenge)
Have fun and be safe!

Sincerely,
Jeff Westcott