Chester freshman Kenny Wilson has won all five of his high school races this season. Wilson has been racing since a child and now trains several times a week.
The Chester High School ski and snowboard teams competed in their fifth race of the season at Northstar Friday, Feb. 6. The giant slalom course was blanketed in fog, but snow conditions were decent thanks to a small amount of new snow the night before.
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In 13 years of alpine ski racing, Daron Rahlves found himself foiled by fog, bad snow, equipment failure, ice, sickness, lack of sleep, and any number of other obstacles.
But never, not once, by a cross-body block thrown by a hyped-up Canadian.
Welcome to the world of ski cross, the lone new sport slated for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games, which begin a year from Thursday.
Rahlves, 35, America’s most successful male downhill racer, was lining up a last-minute pass at …Â More info
Ski freaks and mountain bikers, Whistler calling. Spring’s coming right around the corner, and if you’re already dreading the depressing approach of wildflowers in bloom and the impending snow melt that mark the end of ski season, do not despair. That behemoth of a mountain, British Columbia’s Whistler Blackcomb Resort, is also a lesser known summer paradise.
Many tourists, ski bums, and bunnies know that the mountain is open for what you may assume to be a watered down source of warm month revenue. Fewer have given it much of a chance to be notably fun in the off season. This means that you’ll have the Vegas of Skiing without the Vegas if you go May through October. You’ll practically have the place to yourself… More info
Way too much hair.
In an often disturbing brush with hypothermia, dozens of guys traded ski gear for dresses, strapless gowns, skirts, wigs and jewelry to participate in Saturday’s Bud Light “Ladies Day” at Mount Rose Ski Tahoe.
With songs like Aerosmith’s “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)” blasting through a thick cloud cover and flurries of snow, they pranced and preened, strutted and posed before a laughing crowd at the ski resort.
They bumped and they grinded. Every now and then, a strategically placed balloon popped free.
These were guys like 20-year-old Anders Boyd of Reno, who donned a rainbow wig, pink miniskirt and black and pink top stuffed in just the right places…Â More info