The transition from Winter to Spring appears to take as long as you want it to around here. I’ve been on a few great mountain bike rides already this Spring -the trails in Squamish are dry and in great shape, and the temps have been comfortable. But there is plenty of skiing still to be [...]

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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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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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This is my first-ever trip to Canmore, but after the trip to Europe it felt like coming home. When we woke up this morning it was -29C. Canmore got almost a foot of snow a couple of days ago, but it was pretty well mixed with the manmade base by this morning. And it was [...]

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The World Cup trip wrapped up very well from my point of view. Last weekend was a good one for the USST. Newell’s fourth place in the sprint and Kris’s 5th in the 15K classic were great to see. I’ve been frustrated often enough just hearing the reports back here on how things are going. [...]

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The learning curve is steep over here, and I’m starting to expect to be surprised.

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The snow here is very different from the snow at home. It’s white. It’s cold. It squeaks under foot. But it acts a lot wetter than it looks. It snowed about 10cm the night before last, so there’s new snow mixed into the manmade stuff, and the temps today were pretty chilly - in the [...]

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