Recreation Advertiser List Advertise Subscribe Eldora rings in spring with corporate race Raise your hand if you hang out around the water cooler or the coffee pot at the office and tell epic skiing stories of the previous weekend. If so, it's time to put your money where your mouth is. The 2000 Corporate Challenge ski race March 19 at Eldora Mountain Resort will pit teams and individuals from companies across Boulder County against each other as they vie for slalom bragging rights. The field usually includes SKI Magazine, Salomon and Spyder, but those teams don't always win. It's the fifth annual event and it benefits the Eldora Mountain Ski Club, a non-profit youth ski racing program dedicated to the development of local athletes from ages 6 to 19.
Racers can use alpine skis, telemark skis or a snowboard on the giant slalom course.
But if you want to be a part of it, you'd better act quickly because the race only has room for 20 teams. New this year is an individual championship that will determine the fastest man and woman of the challenge. The top 16 men and women, based on times in the corporate races, will be seeded into the Pro class, while the second group of 16 will fill out the Citizen class. The winning team gets the highly coveted traveling trophy. Others will take home everything from new skis to ski tunes to high-end ski and snowboard accessories raffled off after the races.