UPDATE: We have our winners!!
Joyce Tanihara, Art Trevena and their dog, Joey, are the winners of this year’s First Ski Contest. Joyce reports that there was 3-4″ of snow at County Line and they had a nice ski around the Dog Loop. The coverage was pretty good at just before 10am this morning, and their skis were gliding, not grinding. “It was a beautiful day,” she says. They will be receive some GMNC swag of their choice. No one correctly chose the date of the first ski.

Time to Enter the 2025 First Ski Day Contest!! 

How soon will the snow fly? Only time will tell, but here’s your chance to play snow forecaster and get first tracks. Correctly predict our first day of skiing and/or be the first to make ski tracks on our trails and you’ll win a prize — bragging rights and a GMNC trucker hat.

Two awards are up for grabs:

Most Accurate Snow Forecaster 2025

Awarded to the person or persons who correctly predict the first day of skiing on GMNC’s trails.

First Skier of 2025

Awarded to the person or persons who are first to send in photographic evidence of the season’s first ski on our trails.

ENTER HERE:  https://forms.gle/vdieSK9DSNd2DXqu6

Rules

-Entries must be made a minimum of 5 days before the date chosen.

-Only one entry per person.

-The first day of of skiing will be determined by photographic confirmation that skiing has taken place. Skiing must be on the GMNC trail system — Skyway, County Line or Ward trails. (Presumably this will be before the grooming has begun.)

-First person or group to submit photos of the first ski will be declared winner of the First Skier of 2025. If multiple people submit acceptable photos, winner will be determined by time of day (photo at 9am wins over one taken at 11am).

-In the event that there are more than 3 entries meeting the winning criteria, we will announce and celebrate all winners, and have a random drawing to award up to 5 prizes total.

To submit verification of your first ski, email a photo to christie@staging.gmnc.org. Include the time and place that the photo was taken.

Questions? Email christie@staging.gmnc.org