Sun Valley, Idaho – Zack Simons (Rossignol) and Rebecca Dussault (Saab Salomon Factory Team) won the 34th annual Boulder Mountain Tour this past weekend. Simons, who is rounding into form after his early season took a significant setback due to illness, edged Marshall Green (Alpina/XC-Oregon) in an exciting sprint to the finish. The final margin of victory was recorded as a mere .1 seconds. US Nordic Combined skier Bryan Fletcher (Madshus) was just 1.5 seconds...
Huge Albums from all the weekend’s races – by Kris Dobie.
Pinkham Notch, NH – The weather was the dominant story at the Great Glen Nordic 300 as skiers raced through unseasonably warm temperatures, falling snow and gusty winds. As if racing for 5 hours wasn’t challenge enough, Mother Nature decided to make it that much more difficult. The Great Glen Nordic 300 is a 300-minute cross country ski race for solo racers, teams of two or teams of four. The goal is to ski as...
By Maria Stuber
Yesterday, Bryan Cook and I went to Minocqua, WI to watch and help our respective high school programs at the Wisconsin State High School Championships. Both races took place on the same day, with a 5K classic in the morning and a 5K skate in the afternoon. The skate race in [...]
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After coming to the surface this afternoon after 3 days of full-on ski prep and racing, I’m caught between trying to remember what I have to do next and replaying everything that just happened over the last couple of days. A lot of effort and emotion poured out on the trails this weekend. One thing [...]
Saturday was a beautiful day for races in the Methow Valley. The Skate Sprints for racers ages 6 and up were held at Liberty Bell High School on the new trails. More wonderful photos on the a href="http://mvsta.blogspot.com"MVSTA Blog/a.br /embed type=...
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I'll get some pics up tonight but today was my first win of the season! It took a lap to get moving but I closed well and picked up 15 seconds on Lars who was second on the final lap. Now I've got to rest a bit and then go wax up skis since this trip I...
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Editor’s Note: The Craftsbury Outdoor Center was recently sold and reorganized as a 501c3 non-profit. For more information on the reorganization and the revitalized vision of the Center, janice@nensa.net
Tad Elliott races for the Saab-Salomon Factory Team. More information on the Saab-Salomon Factory Team can be found at www.skipost.com I have just arrived home from Praz de Lys, France after the U23 World Championships. I had a tremendous time but I am happy to be home in Durango Colorado. Once arriving in Geneva we had a short drive to the hotel. We arrived around 7:00 p.m. and immediately went to dinner in the hotel...
Praz de Lys, France – The Norweigan women and Russian men closed out the 2009 World Junior Championships with victories in the relay. The women raced a 4×3.3km event with two classic legs and two skate legs. The favorite, Norway, won in convincing fashion, led by Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg, who captured her fourth gold of the Championships as the anchor leg. Sweden, the one team with the depth to compete with Norway, finished second, 30...
Last week the Super Tour made its rounds to Telemark, Wisconsin. With temperatures as low as -15, it managed to warm up to zero degrees to kick off the skate sprint on Wednesday . The course wasn’t any ordinary sprint course. To put it plainly, it...
After an ever-so-brief time spent basking in the glory that was home (in Canmore), it was back on the road for two more months of racing action.
As many have probably noticed, the new FasterSkier site is no longer accessible. We have been experiencing some significant technical problems and have disabled the new site temporarily. This is why we launched the site in Beta, and continued to maintain the old site. The old site is being updated regularly and contains all content. UPDATE: Blogs are back up and fully functional. The blogs are also currently down with a completely unrelated issue –...