Silver Star
· Dec 3, 05:15 PM
Along with most of the rest of the ski world I’m sampling the best skiing in North America outside of the UP and possibly Alaska. That’s not to say it’s great skiing, but it is certainly passable. They had fantastic skiing here until the rain on Sunday, but apparently that storm did a bit of a number on the base. Since then the temperature has plummeted (9° this morning!) and things have frozen up quite nicely. It is a very nice base, and good skiing by eastern standards. We got almost, but not quite, enough snow to make perfect skiing. I think we needed three inches but only got about one. So instead of perfect skiing we have very acceptable skiing. The only real problem is the total cover is thin enough that nobody can put in a new classic track.
This weekend’s races are scheduled for Sovereign Lakes on the World Cup trails that they built for the races they had in December 2005. About the only thing those trails have in common with West Yellowstone is that they have snow on them, otherwise they’re a world apart. Hard climbs, a couple technical descents and no real flats – in other words they are what we call real race courses.
I’m excited to get the race season going. I tried to go last weekend in West, but my performance on Saturday was more like skiing around with a bib on than it was like racing. That’s not to say I didn’t try hard, but I was in the middle of my cold and apparently my body was pretty wasted. I’m finally (just this afternoon) starting to feel a bit more normal, so I’m hopeful that things will look a little better this weekend.
I’ll try to remember the camera tomorrow.
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Foret has great snow too…don’t hate on the East too much.
— Luke S Dec 4, 07:24 AM #