From a service perspective the Canmore races wrapped up very well. Everybody was happy with skis in the 15K, and the skis were visibly fast in the skate sprint heats. We had a brief period of uncertainty toward the end of the day Friday. We had wrapped up the distance skate day, we’d put base [...]

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I’m back in Squamish, and am not planning to take any more trips for quite a while. I’ll be grinding small batches regularly, and doing a lot of testing. Always plan to call before dropping by!

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We’re half-way through the racing at the Canmore World Cups, and things have gone well enough. No disasters, but also no really notable successes so far, at least with respect to ski service. We’ve been putting people in the races, which is our number one job. We’re still looking for advantages.

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I’m in Canmore for World Cups through the 27th…

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Just got the following message from Chris Klebl who is currently in Germany racing the IPC (International Paralympic Committee) World Cup:
> From: Chris Klebl [mailto:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX)
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 9:19 AM
> To: Zach Caldwell
> Subject: 10k race Germany
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> 1st place.
> Large field
> Tight results
> 902, Q3, star F1 on top
> Nasty, dirty, corn [...]

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Grind volume has tapered off since a very busy holiday rush in preparation for US Nationals and Canadian trials. I’ll be running structures as necessary, and mostly focusing on test skis and on-snow testing through the 16th. On the 17th I’ll head to Canmore for the World Cups, returning the 27th. Larry Poromaa (USST head [...]

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Click on the pictures for enlargement. These were taken today by Amy and Jesse Heckrodt.
Today and yesterday it didn’t really snow at the Callaghan - at least not much. Pretty much every day in memory before that it has snowed - much. A couple of days ago I went up with Amy and we got [...]

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The Callaghan Valley Olympic venue opened to the public today for the first time, hosting a BC Coast Cup competition. The photo is of Jesse Heckrodt (CVTC) en-route to what appeared to be an easy win. It was my second day of skiing up in the valley, and the first at the Olympic [...]

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The Canmore trip wrapped up well. We made decent skis for Saturday’s sprints, and I think good skis for Sunday’s classic race. Saturday stayed incredibly cold and dry but there were some advantages to be had from pure fluoro topcoats. Vauhti, Solda and Swix (to my knowledge) were all represented on visibly fast skis. On [...]

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The Canmore trip was good - I learned a great deal - and now I’m back for some shop work. I picked up a bunch of skis in Canmore, and have some here waiting for me. I’m about to head to the shop to get things resettled after the recent construction which should have been [...]

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