#1 the 2006 National championship at Bolton Valley. This field had incredible depth, 11 guys finished within 10% of the winner and an incredible 44 finished within 20%. The top 10 was, in my opinion, the best top 10 to ever finish in New England. Paul Low and Richard Bolt were at the top of there game, tearing up the WMAC series in 2006 with Bolt winning three races and Low winning three (his only loss was to Bolt at Northfield mountain).
#2 Sidehiller 2010. The top 11 all finished within 10% of the winner. Very few of the top snowshoe racers in NE were missing from this race. The top 27 finished within 20% of the winner. Kevin Tilton, Josh Ferenc, and Jim Johnson had already combined for over 10 wins in the WMAC and Granite state series and it was only the end of January! The three finished within 17 seconds on this lightening fast course.
#3 Northfield Mountain (national qualifier) 2005. The top 10 were all within 10% of the winner and 19 finished within 20%. The top five had been (or currently were) members of the US mountain running team. Paul Low and Richard Bolt again battled as they did all year. The two combined to win 7 WMAC races and had some epic battle with Bolt beat Low four times and Low beating Bolt three times.
#4 Bolton Valley qualifier in 2006. Not many of the top NE guys were missing at this qualifier. Tilton, Bolt, Nephew, Barrett took the top 4 U.S. spots. The top five were all within 10% of the winner and the top 18 finished within 20%.
#5 – Chime in! Tell me what race I missed…
2006 National championship
1 | Greg | Hexum | 42:42:00 | MN | 100.00% |
2 | Paul | Low | 43:11:00 | MA | 98.88% |
3 | Bill | Raitter | 43:52:00 | CO | 97.34% |
4 | Rich | Bolt | 44:13:00 | NH | 96.57% |
5 | Mark | Churchill | 45:09:00 | VT | 94.57% |
6 | Scott | Gall | 45:38:00 | IA | 93.57% |
7 | Bernie | Boettcher | 46:04:00 | CO | 92.69% |
8 | Antonio | Holguin | 46:21:00 | MEX | 92.13% |
9 | Christian | Vachon | 46:28:00 | CAN | 91.89% |
10 | Mike | Decker | 46:36:00 | MI | 91.63% |
11 | Kevin | Tilton | 46:53:00 | NH | 91.08% |
12 | Jimmy | Gobeil | 47:05:00 | CAN | 90.69% |
13 | Gregory | Hammett | 47:37:00 | NH | 89.67% |
14 | Cory | Brown | 47:46:00 | NY | 89.39% |
15 | Thomas | Beckum | 47:52:00 | ME | 89.21% |
16 | Ben | Nephew | 48:08:00 | MA | 88.71% |
17 | Jesse | Haynes | 48:11:00 | CA | 88.62% |
18 | Alan | Evans | 48:19:00 | NY | 88.38% |
19 | Aaron | Robertson | 48:22:00 | NY | 88.28% |
20 | Dewey | Peacock | 48:33:00 | MT | 87.95% |
21 | Martin | Ladouceur | 48:45:00 | CAN | 87.59% |
22 | Gary | Fancher | 49:12:00 | NY | 86.79% |
23 | Dan | Verrington | 49:34:00 | MA | 86.15% |
24 | David | Schuneman | 49:50:00 | MN | 85.69% |
25 | James | Pawlicki | 49:52:00 | MA | 85.63% |
26 | David | Dunham | 50:04:00 | MA | 85.29% |
27 | Jean-Nicolas | Duval | 50:17:00 | CAN | 84.92% |
28 | Peter | Maksimow | 50:48:00 | MA | 84.06% |
29 | Allen | Mead | 50:58:00 | VT | 83.78% |
30 | Steve | Peterson | 51:09:00 | MA | 83.48% |
31 | Chad | Denning | 51:21:00 | NH | 83.15% |
32 | J.F. | Lindsay | 51:31:00 | CAN | 82.89% |
33 | Stefan | Bibb | 51:39:00 | VT | 82.67% |
34 | Ty | Strange | 51:40:00 | CA | 82.65% |
35 | Jason | Urckfitz | 52:04:00 | NY | 82.01% |
36 | Nate | Huckle | 52:08:00 | NY | 81.91% |
37 | Carl | Johnston | 52:18:00 | NY | 81.64% |
38 | John | Daly | 52:27:00 | VT | 81.41% |
39 | Nathaniel | Grabman | 52:36:00 | AK | 81.18% |
40 | Rob | Smith | 52:38:00 | MA | 81.13% |
41 | Kasey | Schmitt | 52:59:00 | IA | 80.59% |
42 | Kasie | Enman | 53:07:00 | VT | 80.39% |
43 | Bob | Nugent | 53:09:00 | NY | 80.34% |
44 | Jamie | Boese | 53:20:00 | CO | 80.06% |
2010 Sandwich
1 | Kevin | Tilton | 0:31:08 | 100.00% | NH |
2 | Josh | Ferenc | 0:31:20 | 99.36% | NH |
3 | Jim | Johnson | 0:31:25 | 99.10% | NH |
4 | Peter | Mallett | 0:31:47 | 97.95% | NH |
5 | Charles | Therriault | 0:32:12 | 96.69% | NH |
6 | Ben | Nephew | 0:32:32 | 95.70% | MA |
7 | Bob | Jackman | 0:33:25 | 93.17% | RI |
8 | Tim | Cox | 0:33:44 | 92.29% | NH |
9 | Danny | Ferriera | 0:34:01 | 91.52% | NH |
10 | Dave | Dunham | 0:34:04 | 91.39% | MA |
11 | Steve | Wolfe | 0:34:05 | 91.34% | NH |
12 | Eric | Morse | 0:34:44 | 89.64% | VT |
13 | Jim | Pawlicki | 0:34:51 | 89.34% | MA |
14 | David | Principe | 0:35:03 | 88.83% | RI |
15 | Stan | Snow | 0:35:05 | 88.74% | VT |
16 | Dave | Quintal | 0:35:33 | 87.58% | NH |
17 | John | Pajer | 0:36:05 | 86.28% | MA |
18 | Reeder | Fahnestock | 0:36:15 | 85.89% | NH |
19 | Chris | Dunn | 0:36:35 | 85.10% | NH |
20 | Kurt | Gustafson | 0:36:47 | 84.64% | MA |
21 | Richard | Lavers | 0:36:55 | 84.33% | NH |
22 | Jeremiah | Fitzgibbon | 0:37:51 | 82.25% | NH |
23 | Sam | Wallis | 0:37:52 | 82.22% | MA |
24 | Ken | Poulin | 0:37:53 | 82.18% | MA |
25 | Eddie | Habeck | 0:38:20 | 81.22% | VT |
26 | Ryan | Welts | 0:38:39 | 80.55% | NH |
27 | Amber | Cullen | 0:38:39 | 80.55% | |
1 | Paul | Low | 100.00% |
2 | Richard | Bolt | 98.91% |
3 | Peter | Maksimow | 97.83% |
4 | Ben | Nephew | 96.74% |
5 | Dan | Verrington | 95.65% |
6 | Gregory | Hammett | 94.57% |
7 | Stephen | Judice | 93.48% |
8 | Leigh | Schmitt | 92.39% |
9 | Elijah | Barrett | 91.30% |
10 | Mike | Cohen | 90.22% |
11 | Mark | Churchill | 89.13% |
12 | James | Pawlicki | 88.04% |
13 | Greg | Ward | 86.96% |
14 | Jason | Ayr | 85.87% |
15 | Rob | Munro | 84.78% |
16 | Stephen | Peterson | 83.70% |
17 | John | Daly | 82.61% |
18 | Kelli | Lusk | 81.52% |
19 | Peter | Keeney | 80.43% |
20 | Judson | Cake | 79.35% |
2006 Bolton qualifier
1 | Jimmey Gobeil | CANADA | 0:47:49 | 100.00% |
2 | Kevin Tilton | NH-USA | 0:47:59 | 99.65% |
3 | Richard Bolt | NH-USA | 0:49:28 | 96.66% |
4 | Ben Nephew | MA-USA | 0:51:46 | 92.37% |
5 | Elijah Barrett | NH-USA | 0:52:50 | 90.50% |
6 | Joel St-Louis | CANADA | 0:53:11 | 89.91% |
7 | Christian Vachon | CANADA | 0:53:16 | 89.77% |
8 | J.F. Lindsay | CANADA | 0:53:31 | 89.35% |
9 | Don Verrington | MA-USA | 0:55:00 | 86.94% |
10 | Dave Dunham | MA-USA | 0:55:57 | 85.46% |
11 | Greg Hammet | MA-USA | 0:56:23 | 84.81% |
12 | George Adams | USA | 0:56:30 | 84.63% |
13 | Thomas Beckum | ME-USA | 0:56:57 | 83.96% |
14 | James Pawlicki | MA-USA | 0:58:11 | 82.18% |
15 | Allen Mead | VT-USA | 0:58:27 | 81.81% |
16 | Adams Robertson | NY-USA | 0:59:12 | 80.77% |
17 | John Conillard | MA-USA | 0:59:15 | 80.70% |
18 | Jad Daley | VT-USA | 0:59:16 | 80.68% |
19 | Peter Dafault | USA | 1:01:32 | 77.71% |
20 | Jean-Nicolas Duval | CANADA | 1:02:37 | 76.36% |
21 | Ross Saxten | USA | 1:02:46 | 76.18% |
22 | Todd Peterson | USA | 1:03:17 | 75.56% |
23 | Matt Marawski | USA | 1:08:44 | 69.57% |
24 | Pete Malinowski | MA-USA | 1:08:57 | 69.35% |
25 | John Doty | VT-USA | 1:09:24 | 68.90% |
4 comments:
I'd say the Bolton course was one of the best all-around snowshoe course ever. Fast grooomed trails, windy singletrack, long grinding hills and deep powder.
Bolton Nationals has to be tops but second in my books goes to Northfield 2004. The top-20 had two former or future national champions (Dunham and Robertson), seven former or future national mountain guys (including Petey), some of New England's best trail runners, and Rick Bolt on fire. In terms of competitive SS races that I have run, this ranks only behind 3 nationals and North Americans.
Richard Bolt
Paul Low
Ethan Hemphill
Junior Pullins
Leigh Schmitt
Ben Nephew
Ian Lanza
Gregory Hammett
Aaron Robertson
Matt Cartier
Elijah Barrett
Dan Verrington
Ryan Pauling
James Pawlicki
Kevin Tilton
Dave Dunham
Steve Peterson
Gregory Ward
David Loutzenheiser
Jim Schultz
2004 was a very strong field, I think I didn't include it because of the drop-off to the top 20 spot. It really was a "who's who" of snowshoe at the time.
Not sure how to take your comment, Paul, regarding 2004 Northfield.
....seven former or future national mountain guys (including Petey), ...
I'll take it as a compliment!
I thought 2006 Nationals was such an awesome course. I remember trying to pass on the single track and almost taking out a tree (or taking out myself). Fun!!
Which Northfield was it where there was a whole train of runners and Ben let some people go and then never was reciprocated when he asked to pass. Only at Northfield's climb!! I love Norhtfield and was so bummed to miss today's!
Petey
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