This Friday marks the start of the Arctic Ski Race in Greenland. The race takes place through the magnificent countryside around Sisimiut on Greenland's west coast approx. 65 km north of the Arctic Circle. The total race distance is 160 km. The three-day race takes competitors through the magnificent, varied and sometimes harsh Greenlandic terrain. 3 Olympic participants The ski legend Bjœrn Dæhlie from Norway who is the most winning participant at the winter Olympic...
The Susitna 100 is a 100 mile race through the frozen wilderness of Alaska. The race course follows remote snow machine trails that are extremely variable in both terrain and snow conditions. Racers can choose their mode of transportation: ski, bike, or run. The race starts at 9 am, and the fastest usually finish by midnight. A biker often wins, but not this year. This year Tim Kelley smoked the field on skis. He completed...
The toughest part about nordic skiing in Antarctica comes the moment you turn around to ski back. It's when you realize that, after 40 minutes of effortless V2-ing, you've been skiing with a gale force tail wind the entire time. And now you have to ski back INTO it in order to get home. Duh. McMurdo Station, Antarctica (summer pop. 1200) is located on Ross Island and is the US Antarctic Program's base of operations....
FasterSkier is happy to welcome Duncan Callahan back as a contributing writer.
The Subaru Primal Quest Adventure Race is beginning to finish up at Lake Tahoe, with only half the teams still left on the course. The race, which started last Friday now has 19 teams across the finish line, 21 teams dropped out, and 41 still en route. Here is an update on our Nordic participants: Team RacingAhead.com, with Pat & Tracey Cote crossed the finish line in 13th place on Thursday evening. They were battling...
The Subaru Primal Quest is now about a day and a half old and our three nordic skiers are right in the hunt near the front of the race. Justin Wadsworth's Team Montrail is in sixth place, while Pat & Tracey Cote's Team RacingAhead.com is right behind them, and certainly turning some heads, with their seventh place ranking. Pat, Tracey, and Justin must have had an almost unfair advatange on the second leg, which consisted...
The Suburu Primal Quest, which is billed as the world's largest, most competitive and best rewarded adventure race, will get underway tomorrow near Lake Tahoe, California. One hundred co-ed teams of four will navigate through a 400+ mile course kept secret until race day. The race will take up to ten days to complete. Among the many participants will be a number of cross-country skiers. And best of all, you can follow their progress online,...
The White Rim is a 103-mile trail located about 30 miles west of Moab in some of the most spectacular desert landscape the area has to offer. The trail essentially encircles the Island in the Sky district of Canyonlands National Park, located at the convergence of the Colorado and Green rivers. Most of the riding on the White Rim trail is non-technical on dirt jeep trails and one can drive the whole thing with a...
Wow! I have to start off by saying that because I know I said it about one hundred times during my latest go at adventure racing. The race was my debut in the longer format, and would be my first experience pushing through sleep depravation and the night. The location of this event was well chosen, and took place on the island of El Hierro, which is the furthest west in the Canary Island chain....
Retiring from ski racing isn't exactly what I thought it would be. What I've chosen to do isn't sitting on the beach in Baja sipping margaritas and waiting for the next big swell. In fact it's probably about as far from that as possible. There are warm climates involved though, but instead I'll be bushwhackin’ around in search of the next CP, which means, “check point” in adventure racing lingo. Yep, I’m one of those...
Soldier Hollow is the second stop on the eight-city Balance Bar Adventure Sprint Series this summer. Adventure racers, ranging from coed elite teams to first-time challengers, will be competing at Soldier Hollow on June 8. Participants will be testing their skills in trail running, mountain biking and kayaking across and adjacent to the same terrain that hosted the Olympic biathlon and cross-country skiing events. Additionally, team dynamics and mental strength will be challenged by the...
Crested Butte, CO to Aspen, CO March 28th- March 29th A vertical foot adding course change, extremely cold weather, and dry powdery snow led to perhaps the hardest Elks Mountains Grand Traverse yet. This extreme backcountry Nordic race, in its 6th year, saw slightly over 1/3rd of the field drop out or not finish. This race starts at the Crested Butte Community School at midnight, climbs over and around Crested Butte Mountain Resort, heads out...
That’s correct folks!! Leadville is now hosting a 100mile ski race. This monumental event is the first of its kind in North America and is perhaps rivaled by the 24 HOURS OF TELEMARK RACE, and the ARTIC CIRCLE RACE in Greenland. This event is taking place this upcoming weekend: Saturday March, 15. Entries for the inaugural event will close on the 13th. Bill Perkins of Leadville, the race director, has organized this race to the...