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Did you buy raffle tickets for Winter Welcome? Want to know if you scored any goods?
We have posted all the winners at the below link.
Thanks to all of you who purchased tickets in support of TCSAR volunteers and backcountry safety. It truly does make a difference in our community.
Thanks to JH Sports and Jackson Hole Mountain Resort for the support! Photo: JHMR
The 6th Annual Winter Welcome returns for 2022 in a virtual format, with JH Sports giving away more than $20,000 worth of gear and prizes on January 15. Raffle tickets go on sale January 5 and can be purchased online here. All proceeds go to support TCSAR volunteers!
Tickets will be available for purchase until noon on January 15. TCSAR Foundation will announce the winners on our social media channels, and will otherwise be reaching out directly. Pickups can be arranged by the Foundation, with any shipping to be paid by the winner.
As this is a virtual event, you don’t have to be present to win. So you have more time to ski powder. That, friends, is what we call a win-win.
Skis, snowboards, avalanche airbags, goggles, a week’s stay at a premier Teton Village property…and much more is being given away during the 2021 Winter Welcome, presented by JH Sports.
From now until January 30, we are selling raffle tickets for these prizes in support of TCSAR volunteers. In its fifth year, Winter Welcome is intended to showcase the spirit of giving back in the name of backcountry safety. The recipe is simple: Get a mountain of awesome gear, sell raffle tickets to likeminded folks, and give it away in support of a good cause.
Though Winter Welcome has typically involved free food and drink and a shindig, the ongoing pandemic means the event will be all virtual. But no more Zoom meetings. All you have to do is buy your tickets—with all proceeds going to TCSAR—go skiing, and we’ll let you know if you win.
Winter Welcome is the brainchild of JH Sports general manager Larry Hartenstein, who has organized the event each of the last five years. A JH Sports employee for 21 years, Hartenstein is a devoted skier who knows what it’s like to be cast under the spell of the Tetons. From the day he arrived as a young skier, many of his life decisions have been influenced by the desire to ski as much as possible. But he also knows how that desire can put people in dangerous situations, and he is adamant about spreading the message of backcountry safety. Winter Welcome is a major step forward in that cause.
“I put on this event to call attention to what TCSAR does for all of the staff of JH Sports and Jackson Hole Mountain Resort,” says Hartenstein. “TCSAR has impacted the lives of our staff over the years and I believe it is 100 percent appropriate to give back to this incredible organization, as the funds are used to continue supporting all of our backcountry users.”
