Smuggs 55+ Club

Have you been tracking your ski days this year?
Sara Holloway wants to hear from you!

Keith Gross’ accomplishment of over 820,000 vertical feet skied at Smuggs last season inspired me to start officially tracking my Mountains, Days and Vertical Feet skied for the 2025-26 season. Getting on the Smuggs App and tracking days has been so much fun – it’s motivated me to ski more days and take more runs than ever before; I’ve made new lifelong ski friends; it’s had me laughing (and sometimes crying) with others about our days (or the clunkiness of the app); it’s been a healthy and friendly way to compete with other athletes throughout the season. I encourage everyone to join in for next season. If you are interested in participating in a Smuggs App 55+ Club Members Leaderboard next year, I’ll need your e-mail address to include you. The more the merrier! I will remind you at the start of next ski season.

 Back to this ski season…It ain’t over yet folks! As a pilot project, I am collecting data about our individual and team accomplishments in Alpine Skiing for the 2025-2026 season. I plan to recognize what we did as a team of Alpine Skiers i.e. How many Mountains did we tackle? Where did we ski? How many days did we get in? How many vertical feet? It’ll be powerful to see this data in aggregate form. We are a strong and motivated bunch! 

 At the banquet we will have the PRELIMINARY* results tallied and we will recognize our collective teamwork to-date as well as having an Olympic-style podium moment for the three esteemed individuals who have the best combination of – :

  • MOST Mountains skied so far this season
  • MOST Vertical feet skied so far this season
  • MOST Days skied so far this season

What I need from you by March 17, 2026 at Midnight (before you drink that green beer) :

  1. The names of each of the Mountains you skied between opening day and end of day March 17, 2026 
  2. The total number of Vertical Feet you skied between opening day and end of day March 17, 2026
  3. The total number of Days you skied between opening day and end of day March 17, 2026

Please e-mail me at sarahollowayvt@gmail.com

Whether you’ve skied one day or 100 days; one mountain or many; one vertical foot (that would be a feat lol) or one million – I want to hear from you! It all counts.  Even if you have only tracked days and Mountains but not vertical feet, I want to hear from you with what data you have.

*Please note: The banquet data will be preliminary data for the 2025-26 season. In early May, I will ask you for your final FINAL data in the above categories and we will provide the results at our 2026-27 Season Kick-off in the Oak Room and remind folks to get tracking going for the season.