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Snowmaking Brings Spring Series To Craftsbury

Audrey ManganJuly 25, 20111

Holding elite level events, whether World Cup races, National Championships or just FIS points competitions, pose numerous challenges for organizers and National Governing Bodies in the US and Canada. Over the course of the summer FasterSkier will examine the various issues at hand. This is the second installment in the series; the homologated courses this season, which includes the SuperTour and NorAms. Every summer since Craftsbury changed ownership in 2008, Dreissigacker says they have been...

General News

SuperTour Finals Head to Vermont

Audrey ManganJuly 21, 20112

U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) posted the finalized schedule today for the SuperTour, and the Finals will be hosted by the Craftsbury Outdoor Center in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. According to an earlier interview with out-going Nordic Director John Farra, the Outdoor Center’s plan to have snowmaking capabilities in place for this season was integral to its candidacy, as the inconsistency of natural snow coverage in late March would normally make northern Vermont a risky...

Continental Cup General

A (Long) First-Person Perspective on Homologation – It’s Easier and Harder than You Think!

Chelsea LittleOctober 30, 2010

Back in June, Nat Herz ran a piece on homologation called “It’s Not as Boring as You Think.” Since then, I’ve gone through most of the process while working for the Craftsbury Outdoor Center. Nat was right. It’s not boring. However, the relative ease or difficulty of some parts of the process took me by surprise. Since Nat introduced the concept of homologation on a theoretical level, I thought I would provide a first-person perspective...

Collegiate Continental Cup General Interviews News Racing US Nationals

Pros of Tomorrow: Ida Sargent

Nathaniel HerzJuly 26, 2010

Before last year, Ida Sargent had had a handful of strong results, but the only way you wouldn’t have heard her name by the end of the 2009-2010 season is if you’d been buried in a snowbank. Sargent, who split her winter competing for the Craftsbury Green Racing Project and the Dartmouth Ski Team, started out with some top-10s in the early season SuperTours, then really heated up at the national championships in Anchorage, where...

Camps Training

Running Up Hills: Eastern REG Camp

Maddy WendtJuly 15, 2010

High-caliber junior athletes flocked to Craftsbury Outdoor Center in Vermont on June 25 for the five-day Regional Elite Group (REG) camp. The week provided attending skiers with a chance to train with and learn from some of the country’s best coaches. This year saw some changes to the general REG plan, including more time trials and the requirement that athletes wear numbered bibs for all workouts, fostering a greater spirit of competition and professionalism. “I...

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