Archive of Year 1
(2006)
18th Colorama Run/Walk Sets New Attendance Record
Raises about $7000 for Lapham Friends
Photo by Joe
Gollinger (who also donated the ski
package).
586 fitness enthusiasts showed up Saturday, October 7th to
enjoy a great event and also to support Lapham Peak
Snowmaking. This surpassed Colorama's previous high
(achieved in 1999) by almost 100. Two special classes (pole
running and CAT Skis) were added this year. These new
events, along with the 10 and 5 K runs, fun run, 4 K walk
and short Smokey Bear run (kids 10 and under) produced
something for everyone - no matter how serious or laid
back. And you can see from the picture that the weather was
perfect. To view the results,
click here.
Private Fundraiser Nets $455
Andy Schwartz's Snowman Triathlon, an informal event he
hosts yearly for skier friends, raised $455 for Lapham Peak
Snowmaking. The triathlon, a
swimming/biking/rollerski event, held September 24th at
Ottawa Lake, featured 15 racers and 7 volunteers. A
new pair of skis, donated by Will Edwards and The Bike
Doctor, was the raffle prize that generated most of the
donation.
Mary
Eloranta receives her new skis from Andy Schwartz.
Lapham Peak Colorama Run/Walk
(Saturday, October 7, 2006)
The 18th Annual Colorama Run/Walk & Smokey Bear Fun Run
is the next major Lapham Peak Snowmaking fundraiser. This
year's big prize is a complete ski outfit valued at $1143,
donated by Joe Gollinger of Chi-Town Sports. Click on link
in sidebar to view the details.
Click here for more Colorama Run/Walk
information and downloadable registration
form.
A
New CAT Ski class has been added for this year's
Colorama:
Join the CAT Ski division for a 5K romp on an easier course
around the upper level. There will be a free CAT Ski clinic
and all CAT Skiers will be chip timed and receive a
Colorama tee shirt.
A
History of Colorama:
The Colorama Run/Walk has been around for almost two
decades.
Click here
to read a history of this unique event, which is largely
the product of one woman's dedication and perseverance.
The
Summer Solstice Celebration
on
Saturday, June 24, 2006 was another fundraising success. A
total of $2695 was raised for our snowmaking efforts. The
breakdown is as follows:
Silent
Auction $1610
Pancake
Breakfast about $600
Sports
Seminar $485
A lot of hard work went into these events and as you know,
pancakes don't make themselves. So many thanks to the
"usual suspects" who again donated their time, with a
special thank you to John Corbin for his innovative idea to
include a Sports Seminar, to Sandy Sugden for her
successful Silent Auction, and finally to John Lupo's
frying and Kris Maki's flipping at the Pancake Breakfast.
Press
Release June, 2006
Click here to see our progress and new
goals.
This
spring's bike swap
was a huge success with over $3000 raised for Lapham
Snowmaking. A big thanks to John and Kay Corbin who came up
with the idea for a swap and were the main driving force in
its fruition. And of course some of "the usual suspects"
(volunteers from the Friends of Lapham) made the event
possible by donating their time and
effort.
We
are well along after this winter, But we definitely need
more donations to take the project into Phase 2.
Click here to donate.
Think
they'd like to know they could ski all winter?
Photo: Courtesy of Fischer Skis
Would you like to help promote youth
(family) skiing? The best way is to have guaranteed snow
for the season. There is no healthier lifetime activity and
I believe that skiing cements family bonds and certainly
keeps kids off the streets. Imagine having your children
come home from school excited about going skiing. biking,
running or hiking - rather than rushing out of the house to
"hang out." But we need "guaranteed snow" to spark this
interest in more than just a few diehards. And we're well
on our way with the first-year progress of the Lapham Peak
Snowmaking project. (See brief history below.)
But we still have a
long way to go. Your donation can help immensely.
Click here to make a
contribution.
The Birkie was over but we still had skiing.
The snow that
was previously made and piled has been used to "patch" the
trails at Lapham. So already we've seem the project pay off
in more skiing days. (See below for more details of the
past progress.)
The
donations have been great but we need a lot more to
complete the project to have "guaranteed" snow on the
entire lighted loop. Click here to make a tax-free
donation.
Note: Again the
Birkie was won on Trabs, the same ski that one lucky
participant will win in a drawing at the Colorama Run next
fall - a major fundraiser for Lapham Snowmaking.
Click here to see entire Colorama ski
package.
Snowmaking
report from John Lupo. (Feb. 12,
2006)
Update from Ed Muzik. (Feb. 12, 2006)
Warm temps are expected again Monday thru Wednesday, with cold temps retruning on Thursday. Current plans are to have the snowcat (to spread the snow) operable on Thursday. We'll leave the current snow in piles to conserve it thru the warm spell, make more snow on Thursday and Friday and try to groom it Friday evening. Currently we've made about 300' of snow and the system was working good, with the best results around 18 degrees wet bulb (colder the better). Our well water temp was at 50 degrees. (Note: Ideal water temperature is around 32 ºF. But the holding pond is not in yet so...) To run the sytem we have to refill the water tank every 45 minutes and swap fuel tanks on the pump every 4-5 hours. (Note: We plan to have the holding pond ready for next winter.)
Skiing
at Lapham?
For the latest update
on ski trail conditions at Lapham, call the hotline at
(262) 646-4421 or check the trail conditions by
clicking here. To get the trail
conditions in the South Kettle, call their hot line at
(262) 594-6202.
Lee
Borowski
Update
from Ed Muzik on the Lapham Peak Snowmaking Project.
1/26/06
"Don and
Bob hooked up the motor starters on Tuesday and we were
able to have our electrician make a temporary hookup to the
ski light box to test the snowguns. I pushed the start
button, and the thing started right up! Same with the
second gun. Both guns appeared to be running well and
did not seem to need any new bearings or other
repairs. We did not test them with water. All
of pedestals are almost hooked up and the electrician is
close to being ready for an inspection. WE Energies
has been contacted for a pre-clearance service, meaning
they would install the new equipment, but not energize it
until the inspection has been okayed.
The long range Accuweather forecast calls for cold weather
on Feb. 7, so that is our new goal to actually run the
system. However, we need some quick service from WE
Energies and some good luck to make that goal. In any
case, we getting very close to being able to actually make
snow."
Click here to go to the Friends of Lapham
Peak website.