Pendle Ski Club News

The clubs annual maintenance program is now in full swing with the club relying upon the help of its volunteers to keep everything in tip top condition.

The bulk of the work this year is to the main slope which will see around 80 mats lifted and replaced with new ones as part of our matting replacement plan.

Before the new matting can be laid work is required to profile any low spots on the slope making any repairs to the underlay to provide a smooth surface the matting to be fitted to.

In addition to the main work any other worn matting on the rest of the slope and tow area will need to to be replaced with plenty of painting, grass strimming and cutting also needed to prepare the club ready for the next season.

Work parties will take place most weekends in July please look out for the member services emails that provide details,

Well done to Catrin Ferguson who has been presented with the coaches award for June.

Catrin has had to miss a few weeks training after suffering a broken arm from one of her many other sports, but has come back more determined and skied well throughout the last month and at the recent Club National – well done.

After the excitment of the individual racing at our Club National Event Sunday saw SSE hold the team inter regional competition take place at Pendle.

Each team is made up of seven skiers who compete in head to head slalom during the morning to then qualify for the knock out stages in the afternoon.

The North West Region was able to submit three teams made up of Skiers from Pendle, Rossendale, Oval and Manchester Ski Racing against teams from Central and Southern Region.

The afternoon stages saw some very close racing, with the North West two of the North West Teams progressing through the first rounds, with ultimately the North West A team winning overall for the second year in a row and the North West B 4th in the race off for 3rd / 4th place.

Pendle welcomed competitors from Clubs throughout the UK for our 2015 Club National Event from as far North as Ravens in Sunderland through Rossendale, Oval and the Midlands down as far as Gloucester and Norwich.

In clear sunny weather we had an excellent days racing for the seeded racers and it was good to see so many U10 & U12’s taking part in the none seeded races to continue to support local racing.

Pendle was well represented by our home skiers with many taking podium positions.

Our thanks go to all the volunteers and officials who helped on the day both from Pendle and the supporting clubs – with full results available on www.britski.org and below

U10 U12 results
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Female results and points
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male results and points

Bright sunshine welcomed 40 racers from Pendle plus some guests from Snowsports to take part in the monthly training ladder.

Racers enjoyed three timed runs followed by individual head to heads and a knock out team competition.

Individual time run details are available on the link below

June 2015 timed runs

Well done to Charlotte Holmes who has been presented with the monthly coaches award for May

Well done to the 35 racers who have taken part in the April training ladder – details of the timed runs are available on the link below with head to head results and points sent to all the racers.

April 2015training ladderTimed runs

The morning produced some fast times and close head to head races – well done everyone

Well done to Bradley Marlor who has been awarded the coaches award for April for hard work at training.

Whilst we had a number of Skiers away for Easter there was still a good turn out for the monthly training ladder for timed runs followed by some close head to head racing.

Details have been circulated to those who took part but the timed runs are listed on the link below

March training ladder timed runs

Well done to Anna Greensmith who has been presented with the monthly coaches award for March – keep up the hard work