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Preseason Discount Trail Passes Available for Yellowstone Ski Festival

West YellowstoneOctober 21, 2019

*Order by October 31, 2019 for the best rate    Prepaid trail passes are available through October 31, 2019 for the Yellowstone Ski Festival. Passes are valid from November 1-30, 2019.   To purchase- Discounted passes for the month of November are available now. Regularly $55 each, these passes can be purchased by any skier for $45 each. Skiers 10 and younger are $22. Passes purchased via mail must be paid for by check and...

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Larch Hills Nordic Society Trail Lighting Project Appeal for Support (Press Release)
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Larch Hills Nordic Society Trail Lighting Project Appeal for Support (Press Release)

FasterSkierOctober 18, 2019

Press Release Please Vote for Larch Hills Nordic Society Trail Lighting Project in the 2019 Kraft Heinz Project Play Competition   Hello Ski Friends!!   We are thrilled to announce that we are one of four finalists in the 2019 Kraft Heinz Project Play competition.  We are competing for a grand prize of $250,000! If we win, the money will be used to install trail lighting at Larch Hills.  We are one of few ski clubs...

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Swedish Innovation Hubs and their Push for Fluoro Free Ski Racing
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Swedish Innovation Hubs and their Push for Fluoro Free Ski Racing

Jason AlbertOctober 17, 2019

In our commitment to covering the wax ski wax industry, FasterSkier found it relevant to dive deeper into a press release we received on September 4. It came from Sweden based POPFREE Ski Goes Global Project. The project is a collaboration between teams at Peak Innovation and the RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. RISE is a non-profit affiliated with a regional university. RISE bills itself as possessing the research chops and leadership to accelerate innovation. On...

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Jordan Fields and his FKT of the Presidential Traverse
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Jordan Fields and his FKT of the Presidential Traverse

Jason AlbertOctober 15, 2019

For those growing up in the East and worshiping high peaks, one stretch of ridge line is the most storied: the Presidential Range in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. On September 6th, former Williams College skier Jordan Fields established a new fastest known time (FKT) of the Presidential Traverse in 3:42:38 hours.  Here’s the stunner: the previous FKT established in 2018 was 4:04:30 by Lee Berube. On the FKT website documenting all things FKT, the Presidential...

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Unraveling the College Athlete Admission Process: A Look Into Post Graduate Gap Year Programs with Paul Smith of SVSEF
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Unraveling the College Athlete Admission Process: A Look Into Post Graduate Gap Year Programs with Paul Smith of SVSEF

Rachel PerkinsOctober 14, 2019

Deciding how to handle the “college conflict”, as aptly phrased by Alayna Sonnesyn, is a daunting and somewhat mysterious prospect, particularly for athletes and families who are unfamiliar with the process. How does a junior athlete know that they are cut out for a collegiate program? NCAA or USCSA? What about a gap year? In this series, FasterSkier spoke with collegiate and junior coaches and athletes who have chosen different pathways to create a resource...

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Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association Seeks Nordic Skiing Media Intern
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Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association Seeks Nordic Skiing Media Intern

FasterSkierOctober 10, 2019

Description: The Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA), the east’s top-tier NCAA Division I Skiing conference, seeks a Media Intern to create and publish content to the EISA blog and social media feeds following each of the season’s Nordic Skiing races. The Media Intern is required to attend all conference races, as well as captain’s meetings the evening prior to each race: There are two days of racing each weekend, spread over seven weeks. Races take...

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The Women Ski Coaches Association Launches a Grassroots Mission Toward Gender Equity in Sport
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The Women Ski Coaches Association Launches a Grassroots Mission Toward Gender Equity in Sport

Rachel PerkinsOctober 10, 2019

In August, the Women Ski Coaches Association (WSCA) set forth to balance the scales of gender equity in coaching. With Maria Stuber, head coach at the College of St. Scholastica (CSS) and former member of the Craftsbury Green Racing Project, at the helm, the WSCA strives to be “the voice and future of women in coaching.”  According to surveys conducted by the Tucker Center for Research on Women and Girls in Sport, since Title IV...

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Something on the Light Side: The Other News
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Something on the Light Side: The Other News

FasterSkierOctober 9, 2019

Time to take a breath on this Wednesday. It’s a break from doping news, and the latest wax story will have to wait until at least the end of the week. Even the uptempo training spray must await. Time to slow down. Here’s just a very small sample (in four images) of the light, the fall color, and love from Instagram.       And then, of course, there’s this: Back to the nitty-gritty nordic news...

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A Possible New Anti-Doping Tool: Dried-Blood-Spot Testing
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A Possible New Anti-Doping Tool: Dried-Blood-Spot Testing

Jason AlbertOctober 8, 2019

  Last week WADA sent out a press release with this catchy title: WADA leads exciting collaboration on dried-blood-spot testing.  Here’s what this means: WADA signed a memorandum of understanding with seven anti-doping agencies, including the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) to further explore the viability of DBS (dried-blood-spot) testing as part of its global anti-doping tool kit. WADA claimed, “A further objective of the project is to develop guidelines for the collection, transport, analysis and...

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Evan Pengelly Joins Pioneer Midwest

Pioneer MidwestOctober 7, 2019

Evan Pengelly Now on Staff at Pioneer Midwest Evan Pengelly has been hired at Pioneer Midwest as the fulltime race service manager. Pengelly was previously the Rossignol U.S. Race Director, a position he held for four years. “Evan’s experience with wax testing and product expertise further adds to our mission of serving customers, a top priority of our shop,” said Adam Johnson, co-owner of Pioneer Midwest. As the Rossignol race director, Pengelly conducted ski testing...

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Early Season at Hatcher Pass: A Photo Essay
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Early Season at Hatcher Pass: A Photo Essay

Gavin KentchOctober 7, 2019

HATCHER PASS, above Palmer, Alaska — The phrase “early season skiing” tends to evoke several things for your average skier: Dark. Cold. Rock skis. November. And so on. Think a training opportunity to be endured as much as enjoyed. Happily enough, none of these things was in evidence Sunday morning at Hatcher Pass, elev. 3,500′, in Independence Mine State Historical Park in the Talkeetna Mountains above Palmer, Alaska. The sun was out. The views were...

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How to Buy a Ski Lodge When You’re on a Budget

FasterSkierOctober 7, 2019

We have all ben there: we’ve enjoyed the perfect family ski trip in a stunning destination, that makes it almost unbearable to leave once the vacation is over. Having your own place in a ski town that your family enjoys just seems like the next step to your ultimate vacation. However, owning a home in one of the most expensive and popular ski towns, costs $598,000 to $2 million, according to Business Insider. So, when should you buy...

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Mia Zutter and Kristina Trygstad-Saari: Interdependent on the Ski Tracks
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Mia Zutter and Kristina Trygstad-Saari: Interdependent on the Ski Tracks

Jason AlbertOctober 5, 2019

One skier is twenty years old, the other thirty four. Mia Zutter, the younger of the duo, and Kristina Trygstad-Saari, the eldest, exemplify interdependence on the ski tracks. One guides for the other. They met in Canmore in 2018 at a Para World Cup that served as a qualifier for the PyeongChang Paralympics.  Zutter is a visually impaired skier. At the age of 12, having been a lifelong athlete immersed in gymnastics and figure skating,...

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Open Letters from RUSADA Director Yuriy Ganus
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Open Letters from RUSADA Director Yuriy Ganus

Jason AlbertOctober 4, 2019

Following the thread of doping allegations, WADA statements and actions, and RUSADA responses have been dizzying. This much is true: as much as we may be steaming ahead towards a final judgment and consequence for Russian sport (WADA recently gave Russia three weeks to explain discrepancies in the Moscow lab’s data handed over to investigators), there appears to be some internal strife within Russia’s sporting bodies.  The domestic hand wringing came before the IAAF Track...

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Auburn Ski Club Seeks Junior Nordic Ski Coach
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Auburn Ski Club Seeks Junior Nordic Ski Coach

FasterSkierOctober 4, 2019

The ASC Training Center is a non-profit winter sports training facility located on Donner Summit, CA. We are one of the few combined Alpine Ski, Biathlon, Nordic Ski, and Snowboard facilities in the country, and operate a public cross country ski center with 25km of trails.  POSITION:                 Junior Nordic Ski Coach REPORTS TO:                        Nordic Program Director COMPENSATION:     DOE START DATE:                         November 1, 2019 Seeking a full-time, career track Nordic coach for...

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Peoples Academy, Morrisville Vermont, Seeks Head Nordic Coach
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Peoples Academy, Morrisville Vermont, Seeks Head Nordic Coach

FasterSkierOctober 4, 2019

Peoples Academy is searching for a head nordic skiing coach for their winter 2019-20 season. We are looking for committed individuals who will be able to coach nordic skiing in a fun, competitive, safe and sportsmanlike manner. All coaches must be at least 18 years of age or a high school graduate at the commencement of the sport season for which the person has been appointed to coach. Candidates must also meet the certification and...

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Op-Ed: A Discussion about PFAS and Skiing
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Op-Ed: A Discussion about PFAS and Skiing

FasterSkierOctober 3, 2019

FasterSkier respects a diversity of opinions when publishing letters to the editor. Feel free to email info@fasterskier.com with your op-ed piece. You can read a FasterSkier article here regarding EPA regulations and a recent Letter to the Editor on the topic here.    In comparison to known sources and inputs of PFAS into the environment, cross country ski wax comprises only a miniscule portion. However, in the minds of consumers and the ski community, that portion may be...

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JUSTIN WADSWORTH NAMED HEAD COACH FOR 2019-2020 SEASON (Press Release from Biathlon Canada)
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JUSTIN WADSWORTH NAMED HEAD COACH FOR 2019-2020 SEASON (Press Release from Biathlon Canada)

FasterSkierOctober 1, 2019

Press Release from Biathlon Canada Three-time Olympian and one of Canada’s most successful national team cross country ski coaches, Justin Wadsworth, has been named Biathlon Canada National Team Head Coach through to the end of the 2019-2020 season. Wadsworth, who was named interim head coach in April of this year, is excited to continue working with the team. “Since April, our plan has been centred around consistent, quality training. The team has responded extremely well...

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