August 17, 2010 (Boulder, CO) – The SWIX Boulder Mountain Tour along with the Sun Valley Nordic Festival has secured with the help of the City of Sun Valley, Idaho a substantial prize money package. The nearly $13,000 in prize money will be paid to the top ten places in the men’s and women’s races for the 2011 SWIX Boulder Mountain Tour as well as the second annual Thursday night co-ed sprint relays in downtown Ketchum, Idaho.

The always popular SWIX Boulder Mountain Tour is the centerpiece of the nine-day Sun Valley Nordic Festival highlighting the fantastic Nordic skiing opportunities in the Ketchum / Sun Valley area. This year the BMT will feature a Half Boulder of 15km as well as an expanded field for the elite skiers. There is still a maximum cap on the total number of elite wave skiers of one hundred men and one hundred women.

The Sun Valley Nordic Festival will run from Saturday January 29th through Sunday February 6th with the SWIX Boulder Mountain Tour being staged on the 5th.

Visit BoulderMountainTour HERE –  and SVNordicFestival.com HERE for registration and information.