The yearly budget of MARA covers many things, equipment like gates, drills and video cameras, behind the scenes stuff like insurance, banking fees and web hosting, but the most important line item is coaching. Coaching and the overall experience facilitated by that coach is the primary product you buy from MARA and our coaches are top notch. They have the technical abilities to deliver progression based training to your athletes, but they are all great, energetic people too. They create an enjoyable learning environment so the growth in skiing ability isn’t due to arduous work, but having fun.
We have a great staff, but we are able to offer their services for far less than each athlete would pay for an equal amount of ski school lessons. We are also very competitive to the rest of the clubs in the Pacific Northwest and Far West Regions. In every category, our fees are below the average of the clubs surveyed.
Although MARA fees are increasing, the MARA Fund was created to address needs based assistance. Applications will be available soon. Additionally, there are now three avenues for individual fundraising. Lastly, dryland training and holiday camp are both included in the fees for 13 week and full-time athletes.
Read about Financial Assistance here and individual Fundraising options here, here and here.
1 Day (Saturday only, 13 weeks) $600
2 Day (Saturday and Sunday, 13 weeks) $1,200
3 Day (Saturday and Sunday and one other full day, 13 weeks) $1,675
5 Day (full season determined by snow and race calendar) $2,600
Masters (Friday, 4 hours, 13 weeks) $500
Masters (Friday, 2 hours, 13 weeks) $300
Women’s Ski Fit (Sunday, 2 hours, 7 weeks) $200
Freestyle (Sunday only, 13 weeks) $600
Thursday Night Slalom (9 weeks, 6-8PM) $300
Single Drop-in Days $45
There is no Dryland Training or Holiday Camp option for the 6 week program.
The minimum program for athletes 13 years and older is 2 days (Freestyle program athletes are exempt)
Lift tickets and race fees are not included in the MARA program fees.
All MARA families are required to submit a $100 work deposit check. The money can be earned back by working 6 hours at MARA races during the season. The check will be cashed ONLY if work hours are not fulfilled.
All MARA families are required to submit a check for $150 or provide an item valued at $150 or more to the MARA auction. Checks will only be cashed if a family elects not to solicit or donate an item for the auction.
