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Great Snow Earth Water Race Society fonds
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12 cm of textual records; 63 photographs
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The Great Snow Earth Water Race Society (GSEWRS) was formed in 1984 to organize and promote a multi-sport race to mark the end of the ski season. Races were generally held on the May long weekend. Races had been organized since 1975, but the society was only incorporated in 1984. The rules evolved as the years passed. The first year, the race was run down the Creekside. Competitors started at the top on skis, then had to get to the valley any way they chose. Some chose to ski as far as they could and then run, walk, and sometimes crawl down to the valley floor. When the skiers/runners/riders got to the bottom they handed off to a team member on a bike. The bike rider passed off to a canoe team waiting at Wayside Park. The canoe team paddled Alta Lake and the River of Golden Dreams, eventually passed off to a runner at Green Lake. The runner would run back to the village for the finish line. The first year proved the race was a hit and was probably one of the few races that was as fun to watch as it was to compete in. As it grew in popularity, it inevitably grew in complexity and the rule book got longer. The start became a Le Mans start. Those in the skiing leg had to place their ski equipment up around tower 18, back away from it some 100 yards, then, when the starting gun went, run for their gear. Running full tilt in ski boots isn't the easiest thing in the world to do and the older bindings weren't always easy to fasten, offering a humorous aspect to the start. The skiing leg was fairly easy when the snowline was relatively low; it was more difficult when a warm spring chased the snow up past midstation. Those years, the skiers would often arrive at the bottom covered with mud, bleeding from scrapes on knees and hands, absolutely exhausted. Noisy, excited, beer-guzzling spectators would line the length of the River of Golden Dreams to watch the canoes paddle, and often tip over. As the years passed the race got bigger and more serious. There were more ringer teams, and it was beginning to resemble (to a lesser degree) adventure races of the present day like the Ego Challenge and triathlons. Towards the end of the race's tenure, a cross-country ski leg had to be added to separate the skiers. Eventually the race got so big it was taking almost as many marshals as there were competitors to run. Since each team was comprised of five members, and there could be over two hundred teams, it required a lot of volunteers and a lot of organizing. In the 1990s, no one could be found to organize the race due to its size and the growing insurance demands for a multi-sport race run on a shoe-string budget. All the likely candidates, the people who knew the race, also knew how much work it was, and they all bowed out. The race became a victim of its own success. The race was revived shortly in 2014 and 2015 for the Great Outdoors Festival (GO Fest) run by the Resort Municipality of Whistler.
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The fonds consists of a constitution, a manual "How to operate an annual multi-section relay race", and newspaper articles. Fonds also includes:
Scrapbook 1 - newspaper clippings about the Great Snow Earth Water Race Society and events.
Scrapbook 2 - newspaper clippings about the Great Snow Earth Water Race Society and events.
Scrapbook 3 - newspaper clippings about the Great Snow Earth Water Race Society and events.
Photographs - Several dozen photographs capturing race events and participants (racers).
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