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The Portland Press Herald recently ran this interesting article on Ben True.  True represented the US at the U23 Ski Championships last year. The decision Ben True knew he eventually would have to make, the decision he had pondered since he was a senior at Greely High in Cumberland five years ago, finally became clear during the most frustrating chapter of his athletic life. Last winter, as a result of overtraining, True found himself fatigued...

FasterSkier has been working hard over the last year to develop and build a new website. The main goal was to create a site that would allow for more flexibility and features moving forward. It also allows us to freshen up the look and move to a wider format. The plan is to launch the a “Beta” version of the site as early as this afternoon. Why “beta?” We can test the site to our...

FasterSkier is headed to Whistler to cover the World Cup races. If you are headed up and have any interest in sharing lodging and/or rental car, let us know!

What should have been a booming day at the height of Eldora Mountain Resort’s ski season turned tragic Tuesday when an employee clad in black and armed with a semi-automatic handgun arrived at a morning staff meeting and opened fire on his supervisor. Eldora General Manager Brian Mahon died after being twice shot by the gunman, who himself was killed following a vicious fire fight with a sheriff’s deputy along a secluded stretch of mountain...