This Just In 6-1-02

Chequamegon Entrants Help Save the Trails
To help financially support mountain bike trail advocacy efforts for the benefit of off road cyclists everywhere, the Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival offers a "Save the Trails" check off donation box on the event entry form each year. The check off box gives participants the opportunity to send along a voluntary donation for trail advocacy. Donations received from the 2,500 Chequamegon participants are totaled and then split between the local trail group, the Chequamegon Area Mountain Bike Association (CAMBA) and the International Mountain Bike Association (IMBA)

This year was a banner year for the Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival's "Save the Trails" fund raising effort. Just under $10,000 was contributed by approximately 475 Chequamegon participants. This all time high contribution will greatly aid the advocacy efforts of CAMBA and IMBA. For further information about these groups contact CAMBA at www.cambatrails.org or IMBA at www.imba.com.

Thanks Chequamegon riders!!! You have really helped to "Save the Trails"

This just in 5-10-02

As of 5-1-02, all registration data has been processed. By now everyone who sent in their entries for the lottery drawing should have either received their confirmation cards in the mail if they were chosen or their checks and entry blanks back if they were not picked in the lottery. Occasionally, some things get lost in the postal shuffle so if you haven't received either please contact our office at cheqfat@cheqnet.net for clarification.

Please take a close look at your confirmation card to check the information for accuracy. If there is a discrepancy contact our office so we can correct our database.

If your entry was returned consult else where on this web page for the details of the "50 Ways to Ride the Chequamegon" essay contest that will award fifty reserved registrations to the authors of the best essays about why they want to ride in the event. Another way to participate in the event is as a member of the Chequamegon-Clif Bar Clean Up Crew. Both those notices can be found under the INFORMATION page on this web page.

Those of you who requested a preferred start should have a "To Be Determined" in that field. We will be researching all the requests and making those decisions sometime in early June. When the decisions for the preferred start placements are made you will be sent a new confirmation card. This week we will be mailing out the pre-race issues of Fat Tracks. In this issue you will find complete information about the upcoming event including a weekend agenda, race information, course map and additional items of interest.

This Just In 3-15-02

Good luck to all of you who have sent in your registrations by the March 15 postmark deadline to be included in the 2002 Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival entry lottery.

The actual drawing will take place on March 20, 2002 at Telemark Lodge. Please bear with us as we complete the lottery drawing and time consuming process of inputting the entries into our database. Shortly after the drawing is completed, the first thing we will process are the entries that were not chosen. Those people who were not picked in the drawing will have their entry forms and checks returned as soon as we are able to process the returns. This should happen within a few weeks following the drawing date of March 20.

The next item on the processing agenda will be to punch in those who we have chosen in the lottery to be included in the 1700 Chequamegon 40 and 800 Short & Fat entry spots. In the past this processing has taken us about four weeks to complete. We won't send out confirmation cards until all the entries are processed. Don't expect the confirmation cards to arrive until sometime after May 1. If we get them done prior to that date they will be sent out earlier.

Thanks for not calling in to confirm your entries until we have them punched in our database files. So if you don't get your check and entry back by the early part of April there is a good chance that you got in the event. Another indication of being drawn and accepted is that your check for payment will clear you bank. Other than that we will notify everyone with the confirmation card as soon as we can.

This Just In 2-5-02

As the winter sun climbs higher in the Northwood's sky the Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival staff once again comes alive with the anticipation of the 2002 event registration lottery.

As you should know by now, entries are limited to 1700 in the Chequamegon 40 and to 800 in the Short & Fat. A pre-registration lottery is held after the March 15 entry blank postmark deadline to determine the lucky 2,500 who will be enjoying the 20th Anniversary of the Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival sponsored by Trek to be held on September 13-15, 2002 at Telemark Lodge in Cable, Wisconsin.

Those of you who haven't already requested an entry blank can do so in two ways. Either send us a self-addressed stamped business size envelope at PO Box 267, Cable, WI 54821 as soon as possible. Entry blanks will be mailed between February 15 and March 1. Or if you prefer you can log onto this web site and down load a printable pdf file copy to mail in. COMPLETED ENTRIES AND PAYMENT MUST BE POSTMARKED BY MARCH 15 TO BE INCLUDED IN THIS YEAR'S LOTTERY.

Check under Information and then under Registration on this web site for completed details of this year's Chequamegon registration lottery.