Whitehorse soccer pitches, baseball fields, golf courses and trails have been busy this week as several leagues opened their 2012 summer seasons in less than favourable conditions.

Both the Whitehorse co-ed slo-pitch league and the recreational co-ed soccer league kicked off on Monday night with positive results.

"We've had a lot of close games so far,” said Bud Arnold, secretary and treasurer of the slo-pitch league, which will consist of 37 teams across four divisions this year.

"Everyone's got their rosters filled and it was a really good year in terms of team reps getting everything together.”

Now he's just hoping the weather will start to cooperate.

Cold weather and poor field conditions already pushed the league's starting date from May 7 to May 14 and last night's snowfall has cancelled the week's remaining games.

"It just wrecks the field,” Arnold said of the snow.

"They would be right up to their ankles in mud if they even tried to get out there, it will take a few days to dry so we're just shutting it down for the next few days.”

It's nothing new for the league, who dealt with snowfall last season as late as June 4.

"It's happening in May this year so hopefully the worst of it is over,” said Arnold.

"The forecast called for some pretty decent temperatures for the next few days so once this front of snow moves through we should be good and dry for next week.”

The Whitehorse recreational soccer league also began their summer season on Monday night with three games.

The league will be made up of six teams, with 21 players on each squad.

Despite strong winds, players still made it out to compete in the first games of the season.

Jeff Wiggins, CPGA Head Golf Professional at Mountain View Golf Course has a different take on the uncooperative weather.

"It's perfect,” he said.

"This is going to be fantastic for the golf course all this moisture is exactly what we need.”

With the Thursday night Men's Commercial League scheduled to begin tomorrow night, Wiggins said things would progress as planned.

"Not a chance this keeps us off,” he said.

"I'd be concerned if there were a three day forecast of this but there isn't. This is it.

"This is going to be great because the minute the sun shines tomorrow and the heat starts to get back up there this place is just going to absolutely blossom.”

Over 100 golfers and 32 teams took part in the league last season.

"In about five or six days it's going to go from a crappy spring to all of us even forgetting it was bad for two weeks and that's what I love about being up here,” said Wiggins. "It can happen that fast.”

Wiggins said they have no plans to speed up the process and will let Mother Nature run its course.

"There's aeration holes on the greens from last year, there are slits in the fairway so there are places for the water to go and it'll find its way down so it's great for the golf course.”

On the roads and the trails, VeloNorth and the Contagious Mountain Biking Club have been back in the saddle for the last two weeks.

Local cyclist, Jonah Clark, who competes in both the mountain biking and road racing events said the weather has not been kind for cyclists.

After placing second in the Yukon River Road Race, a 50-kilometre sprint down the Alaska Highway on May 6, Clark said the weather conditions were some of the worst he's ever faced in the event.

Cyclists will be back on the road tonight for a Miles Canyon Time trail and the Ride of Silence, an international event honouring cyclists killed or injured while riding on public roads.

Walkers and runners have also been on the roads, braving the weather.

Athletes gathered at the F.H. Collins parking lot last night to compete in the first weekly InterSport 5-kilometre road race of the season.

With a temperature of six degrees and strong southwest winds blowing across Millennium Trail, Mike Richards led the pack with a time of 19:08.

In the women's category, Amelia Frasher topped the field running an impressive seven minute per mile pace time and completing the race in 21:59.