The object of this event is to ski down the mountain and try to skim across a man-made pond. The event starts out easy with the contestants starting out in the first round at a higher level or greater distance up the mountain from the pond. With each passing round, the distance from the starting point to the pond get shorter and shorter. Thus, making it harder to get the speed needed to make it across the pond. Pond Skim Event (2006), Big Mountain Resort, Whitefish, MT.