A look at trail at a ski trail near Stake Lake, south of Kamloops on Dec. 19, 2025. (Image Credit: Overlander Ski Club/Facebook)

By Victor Kaisar

No Ski Racing

Teck Okanagan Cup race cancelled due to ‘challenging weather conditions’ at Stake Lake

Jan 11, 2026 | 4:23 PM

KAMLOOPS — Mother Nature is playing spoilsport at the Stake Lake ski trails near Kamloops, less than a month into the 2025-26 winter season.

The Overlander Ski Club has been forced to cancel the Teck Okanagan Cup #2 race, which was scheduled for next Sunday, Jan. 18.

“The Okanagan Cup Race Committee made the difficult decision to cancel the race due to challenging weather conditions,” a notice from the club said. “With no snow and above freezing temperatures in the forecast, safe and fun racing conditions couldn’t be guaranteed.”

Chloe Heatherington, the race’s Chief of Competition, told CFJC Today that organizers waited as long as possible before the decision was made to pull the plug on the event.

“We met [Saturday] evening but the forecast hadn’t changed and the conditions up there were pretty icy already so we made the difficult decision to cancel, which is tough because we had lots of volunteers ready and we had everything planned,” Heatherington said.

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“We wanted to give people who would have been coming from out of town, from places like Vancouver and Kelowna, enough notice so that they could change their travel plans.”

Heatherington said an upcoming period of freeze-thaw conditions with forecast daytime highs of 11 C on Tuesday and Wednesday and overnight lows of -1 C to -2 C Wednesday to Friday made it difficult to guarantee safe racing conditions.

“If we were to have the race this weekend, I think it would have been fine,” she said. “With races when they need to track set again and again, the grooming can get difficult so that is why it made the race part is challenging, but for holding lessons and going out recreationally, its been fine so far.”

Heatherington added a packed Cross Country BC schedule makes it is difficult to move the race – the second in a series of three Okanagan Cup races – to another date, as almost every other weekend is booked for events across the province.

“There typically isn’t a chance to reschedule. It means this race won’t happen this year,” Heatherington said.

In its statement, the Overlander Ski Club said people who had registered for the Teck Okanagan Cup #2 will be issued a refund.

At this time, the Overlander Loppet is still scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 1, with registration open until Monday, Jan. 26.

“Cross your skis for some snow between now and then,” the club added.