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JACKRABBIT RALLY 2022

​​Barkeater Trails Alliance brings you the Jackrabbit Rally 2022!

The Jackrabbit Rally is a choose-your-own-ski-adventure fundraising event with the goal of celebrating the long and storied history of Adirondack ski touring.  This year we also mark the 36th anniversary of the Jackrabbit Ski Trail and the founding of the Adirondack Ski Touring Council (now called BETA).

When?
February 1, 2022 - March 20, 2022

Where am I skiing? 
Any ski trail of your choosing. If you can participate here in the Adirondacks, great! If not, kick and glide wherever you're able.

Why? 
To support the mission of the Barkeater Trails Alliance (BETA).  With so many of our annual winter events and outings cancelled due to the pandemic, we are adapting with this "virtual" fundraiser. Your donation directly supports advocacy efforts, the building and maintenance of our trails and  administrative services that keep our organizational wheels spinning. 

I'm in. How do I register?
1. Register by clicking the button below. Once there, you'll have options for add on's like renewing a membership or making an additional donation, but the base registration fee is $36 (for 36 years!).

2. Next, choose your t-shirt size. Everyone gets a t-shirt featuring the design of our classic trail markers (pictured!). There will be two t-shirt mailings - March 1st, and another on April 1st.

3. Ski any day between now and March 20th. It’s not about speed or distance. One mile counts. Putting on skis and drinking a beer on your tailgate counts, too. Ski the Jackrabbit Trail, ski out your backdoor - but wherever you go - "Ski! Ski! Ski!" like the Jackrabbit!

4. Share your adventure with us and other skiers by tagging @betatrails in your social media and include the hashtag #jackrabbitrallyadk​. If you don't partake in social media, well, kudos to you - tell your friends the old fashioned way. 
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5. Last, bask in that après glow and pat yourself on the back for giving back to the trails that give us all so much.
WOO-HOO! SIgn me UP!
What's all this "Jackrabbit" talk?

The Jackrabbit Trail is named in honor of Herman “Jack Rabbit” Johannsen, who was a legendary skiing pioneer both in the Adirondacks and, later, in Canada. There he constructed the famous Maple Leaf Trail and helped to start the 100 mile, two-day Canadian Ski Marathon. While living and vacationing in Lake Placid between 1916 and 1928, Johannsen pioneered some of the original routes used by today’s trail. He was also famous for his one-day ascents of Marcy starting from Lake Placid—a round-trip of over 30 miles. “Jack Rabbit” died in 1987 in his native Norway at age 111, skiing nearly to the time of his death.
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"Some six decades and two Olympic games after Jackrabbit laid down his last parallel tracks out from the village of Lake Placid, a group of local skiers finally posed the crucial question: What if someone could blaze a permanent cross country ski trail through this great wilderness? Not a hut-to-hut, backcountry trail, but a path in the old Scandinavian style linking the towns of Keene, Lake Placid, Saranac Lake and Paul Smiths. A path people could use to ski a little or ski a lot, to visit folks along the way, or spend a day at one of the Nordic centers in the area. The kind of trail you don’t need a car to get to. Local skiers would love it, the population at large would gain a valuable resource and the burgeoning Nordic industry would get a shot in the arm."

- John Piedmont, Cross Country Skier magazine, 2004


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HERMAN “JACKRABBIT” SMITH-JOHANNSEN (1875-1987)
"You must feel the tug of your muscles as you near the top of a long grade, and know the joy of making your own track down an unbroken expanse of powder snow. This is skiing. This is adventure!"

- Jackrabbit Johannsen, circa 1946

TRAIL SPONSORS
These local businesses generously host the Jackrabbit Trail on their property

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BARKEATER TRAILS ALLIANCE (BETA)
volunteer driven - member supported - human powered


Address
P.O. Box 843 - ​Lake Placid, NY 12946

Telephone

518.523.1365

Email

betatrails@gmail.com
  • Home
  • About
    • Staff
    • Board of Directors
    • Community Partners
    • History
    • Contact Us
    • Gallery
  • Donate
  • Bike Trails
    • Ride With Gratitude
    • Wilmington >
      • Flume Trails
      • Hardy Road (Beaver Brook)
      • Three Sisters (Quaker Mountain)
    • Lake Placid >
      • Lussi Trails
      • Loggers Loops
      • Craig Wood Trails
    • Saranac Lake >
      • Dewey Mountain
      • Mount Pisgah
      • Fowler's Crossing
    • Elizabethtown >
      • Otis Mountain
      • Blueberry Hill
    • Keene
    • electric MTBs
  • Ski Trails
    • Jackrabbit Ski Trail >
      • Lake Clear JCT to Pauls Smith's VIC
      • Saranac Lake to McKenzie Pond Road
      • McKenzie Pond Road to Whiteface Inn
      • Whiteface Inn to Mirror Lake
      • Mirror Lake to Cascade Cross-Country Ski Center
      • Cascade Cross-Country Ski Center to Keene
    • Conditions
  • events
    • Wilmington MTB Festival
    • Ski Movie Fundraiser
    • Avalanche Pass Ski Tour
    • JACKRABBIT RALLY
    • Annual Meeting
    • Ski & Swim Party
  • Get Involved
    • Volunteer
    • WIN A BIKE
  • Blog
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