Community Ski Challenge 2026

The Friends of Higley Flow are inviting cross-country skiers (young and old) to join a ski event on January 30th – February 1st. (Please note that this is a new date due to a postponement on account of frigid tempuratures forecast for the weekend of January 25th)   Our goal is to see if we as a community of Higley skiers can ski 1) 145 miles across the North Country; 2) 325 miles across New York State; 3) maybe making 950 miles to Wisconsin and the start of the American Birkebeiner (first ski loppet in the US), or 4) 2,190 miles to Yellowstone and more great skiing.  (It may take us more than a year to make it to Yellowstone, but it’s a big country).

We want each skier to record the miles they skied daily over these three days on a poster-sized spreadsheet in the Higley Lodge.  If you cannot track your miles electronically, we have a chart with trail names and distances to help.  Our goal is see how many skiers appreciate skiing Higley Trails and with our good imaginations can dream we are skiing across New York and the U.S. 

This is the fourth year of the Community Ski Challenge and we hope to beat last years’ record of 826 miles. Many skied multiple times resulting in 180 entries over the 3-day event. JOIN US.