With the Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, in full swing, some BYU-Idaho students don’t seem to be satisfied with sitting home watching the chilly sports on TV.

Badger Creek Ranch, owned by the school will host BYU-I’s first full-fledged Winter Adventure Race on Saturday, Feb. 25.

The race will put participants through a three-stage competition that will include Nordic/classic style cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and air boarding.

Participants will cross-country ski the first and largest portion of the roughly five-mile race. On the starting line, competitors face a long, straight, gradual hill. Turning to the west, the trail begins the first of two large loops through somewhat hilly terrain.

After completing the first loop, the participants will start out the second loop with the same long gradual slope that started the first loop. This time when they reach the top though, they’ll turn to the east for another large loop and end up back near the starting point.

Here, the participants will trade their skis in for snowshoes to begin the second leg of their journey.

The snowshoeing makes up slightly less than one third of the total race mileage. It ends on top of a large hill with the finish line waiting at the bottom.

Participants will cross the finish line riding air boards. Rakae Roberts, a freshman from Paris, Idaho, who’s helping coordinate the race as part of a Program Management class, estimates the race will take an average of 45 minutes to an hour for participants to finish.

The top three finishers will receive awards including Nalgene water-bottles, beanies and “smart” wool ski-socks. All participants will receive a meal and a T-shirt, along with their equipment rental and transportation from the Outdoor Resource Center as part of their ticket.

Tickets are available at the BYU-I Ticket Office. Interested students should attend a meeting on Feb. 23 at 2 p.m. in MC 228.