IMAGE: Three frequent winners of the Geissert Challenge.
2025-2026 Geissert Challenge
Would your life be better if you skied more? Find out this year by joining the Geissert Challenge.
John Geissert was a longtime GMNC member whose passion was cross-country skiing on the Grand Mesa, with a goal of logging 100 days every season. His personal best was 121 days. John died in May of 2020 at age 85, having skied 85 days in his last season.
How close can you get to the Geissert goal of 100 ski days? We’re offering a way to help you track your ski days. This is a personal challenge, not a competition. However, at the end of the season we will recognize people who have met the Geissert challenge of 100 ski days. And since 100 may seem impossible when life throws up other challenges, we will also honor people who achieve a half-Geissert, 50 days in one season. If nothing else, we hope that John will inspire you to get up and ski a little more.
And if 50 days seems out of reach, we have a new challenge for you: the Joey 25! Named after Joey Fourpaws, a very, very good dog who was a frequent Geissert 100 achiever. (He skied 124 days in the 2021/2022 season!) We’re sad to report that Joey departed this world in early February. Despite his failing health, Joey skied 25 days in his last season, and we think that’s a pretty good run. We should all be so lucky.
Use this form to submit your numbers each month. (Note: submissions are manually updated, so it may take a few days for them to be listed here.)
Coming later this month: recognition prizes for participants.
| Name | Oct Days | Nov Days | Dec Days | Jan Days | Feb Days | March Days | April Days | May Days | Total Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aims Coney | 7 | 15 | 31 | 31 | 24 | 31 | 14 | 2 | 155 |
| The Mesanite | 7 | 23 | 26 | 26 | 19 | 2 | 103 | ||
| Formerly Fast | 13 | 18 | 23 | 19 | 13 | 15 | 1 | 102 | |
| Rock Dork | 1 | 10 | 19 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 70 |
| jbuc53 | 6 | 19 | 23 | 16 | 64 | ||||
| Paula Harper | 2 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 53 | |
| KP | 5 | 5 | 17 | 19 | 4 | 50 | |||
| Better in Jeans | 0 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 45 | |
| Joey's Mama | 1 | 7 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 38 |
| Cindy R | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 37 | |
| Greg | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 34 | |
| Joey Fourpaws | 1 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 25 | |||
| SassySue | 2 | 2 |