GIVING

General Donations

Your gift helps sustain the Boulder Mountain Tour, allowing us to keep our race accessible and inclusive for all who would like to participate. All donations are entirely tax-deductible and thoroughly appreciated.

BMT Legacy Fund

To safeguard the future of the Boulder Mountain Tour while enhancing the legacy of our outstanding event, the board of directors has established the Boulder Mountain Legacy Fund. 

The Legacy Fund allows us to withstand any financial hardships incurred by lack of snow, a pandemic, or weather conditions that may jeopardize the event in a given year, and ensure the tradition and trajectory of the BMT is secure for years to come.

BMT Legacy Fund Supporters

Corporate
Backwoods Mountain Sports, Blaine County Title, Challenged Athletes Foundation, Elephant’s Perch, Power Engineers, Sentinel Security, Zenergy, Zions Bank.

Individuals
Angela & Thomas Beauchaine, Michael Berry, Tom Bowman and Patty Lousen, Paige Collins, Shay Doll and Buddy Wilton, Jr., Meghan Duff, Gregory Dunfield, Sue Engelmann, Mitch Fleischer, Christopher Foreman, Tom Frey, Matthew Gelso, Svea and Chris Grover, Cary Harding, Sue & Tim Hamilton, Michael Karger, Chip Kogelmann, Andrea & James Lieberman, Nicole Lisk, Steve Moore, Andy Munter and Janet Kellam, Michael Nagro, Del Pletcher, Michele and Tom Praggastis, John Reuter & Lexie Praggastis, Muffy Ritz, Brad St. Clair, Ronald Stradiotto,  Carolyn Stwertka, and Neil Zussman.

Bob Rosso Scholarship Fund

In February 2023, the Boulder Mountain Tour honored Bob Rosso during its 50th anniversary. In conjunction with recognizing Bob and his myriad contributions to our community, the BMT established a scholarship fund in his honor as one of the event’s original organizers, a steadfast supporter of skiing, proponent of the outdoors, and champion of the Wood River Valley.

The Bob Rosso Scholarship will be presented annually to a pair of Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation (SVSEF) Prep Team skiers. It will be merit-based and granted on coaches’ recommendations. Prep Team athletes are in grades 6-8 and meet three times per week. It is a crucial juncture in SVSEF programming, and support will help committed athletes take the next step in their ski racing journey. The yearly scholarship will pay for 50 percent of SVSEF ski program tuition for the upcoming season for a girl and a boy who display attributes of Bob’s we greatly admire and want to encourage; enthusiasm for skiing, respect for others, love of the outdoors, and a desire to improve the lives of those around them.

In August of 2023, the BMT presented scholarships in Bob’s honor to Bailey Kurtz and Vivian Cunningham.

This fund is made possible by generous friends, family and fans of Bob. If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation in honor of Bob, please address checks to the Bob Rosso Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 5868, Ketchum, Idaho, 83340. Thank you!

Bob Rosso at the finish line of the 2023 Boulder Mountain Tour.

Jon Engen Perpetual Award

Given in memory of Jon Engen, the Engen Award is earned by the man and woman who improve their times by the greatest percentage year over. The Engen Award was established by the following individuals and organizations in Jon’s honor:

Tom Campion, Jean and Brent Estep, Richard and Kelly Feldman, Jim Fredericks, Dave Knoop, Marshall Peterson, Roger Miller, Rich Mull, Rossignol, SWIX/TOKO, Jimmie Vaughan, and Darlene Young.

Champions of the inaugural Engen Award in 2019 were Aniko Pearson and Troy Smith. Both were given commemorative belt buckles and belts made by Foster Weld in Boise, Idaho. Buckle winners in 2020 were Hannah Young and Brad St. Clair; 2022 Johanna Stangland and Zach Quesnel; 2023 Lucy Conklin and Alex Homaechevarria; 2024 Mina Vafaeezadeh and Matthew Sanford.

Donations may be made to the Engen Fund. The fund is restricted solely to the perpetual award and donations are entirely tax-deductible.

If you would like to make a contribution or need additional information on any of the Boulder Mountain Tour’s charitable funds, please write to us at bouldermountaintour@gmail.com, or call 208.720.1810. Donations may be mailed to the Boulder at PO Box 5868, Ketchum, Idaho, 83340. Thank you.

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TOKO
We have Toko Tech Team members in Ketchum who will be monitoring the conditions and testing. Additionally I will be in Ketchum and will test Thursday and again on Friday morning before coming to the expo. I'll be at the expo approximately from noon to close to talk about the wax recommendation, say hello, and answer any questions anyone might have. We have done our best to stock the local ski shops with what we expect will be the wax of the day, but this is never a sure thing and often the stores sell out. The current forecast shows overnight lows of around 15f and daytime highs of 38f until Thursday. Then Thursday night a low of 21 and high Friday of 35 with maybe a bit of weather Friday. They are currently forecasting 1.5 inches of snow Friday night with a low of 27f and then a high of 38f Saturday with maybe more precip or maybe it will have passed by then. In the last two hours, the forecast has changed and the incoming weather has changed to earlier. Two days ago, they were saying it wouldn't arrive until Saturday night and Sunday. For this reason, we are going to wait until Thursday morning to make our BMT race wax tip call. We don't want people waxing early and arriving in Ketchum with the completely wrong wax and no means of correcting it. It does look as though our base layers will be BP hot wax Red followed by HP hot wax Red for race day. Despite the forecasted air temperatures and precipitation, I am very reluctant to recommend mixing in Yellow as the BMT snow is notably dry and when there is precipitation, so often it falls dry or even in the form of graupel which acts super dry but most commonly falls at around 32-35f. We have to wait for the forecast to get more reliable before recommending HPLP or not or maybe adding Yellow to the Red hot wax. If it snows Saturday morning and then continues to snow during the race such that there is a hard base of snow with 1-2 inches of ungroomed snow on top, my recommendation is to go with a pair of skis that has a higher stiffer camber. Skis tend to run far better in such conditions when there is less contact of the snow on the base and this is the way to accomplish that. If these are the conditions, I expect flex of the skis (higher stiffer camber) to be the most important factor affecting ski speed. If it snows Friday and Friday evening and then they are able to groom the course overnight and in the morning such that the snow is set up and hard like it will be most of the week (but with more moisture in the air and snow), then "normal" skis will be great. See you at the expo and please look for our race wax recommendation on Thursday morning at around 10mst
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