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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Well we tried...

The last two days we have had races in Rauris, Austria,  From which we had spectacular views, as well as some sweet free-skiing!  Unfortunately friday we had 12 cm of heavy heavy heavy heavy wet wet wet snow.  So we wen't and inspected for the first run, but we didn't even make it to jump practice before it became apparent that there was far too much coming down to see, let alone run a race.  So we  went home, dried out stuff out and prepared for today.  The race organizers spent the night out working on a preparing the piste to race today, but even with all their hard work,  we only made it through 5 racers 3 of which crashed violently, before it became apparent that the conditions were far from ideal to race on, specifically the surface which was very soft, and highly inconsistent.  It was bumpy, chunky, and just about everything else you can think of that would not be fun to ski on.  It was a great day, but not quite the kind of nice day to race on unfortunately.  So we are now in the little baby town of Bohinj, Slovenia, where you there is barely enough snow to cover the race hill!  None the less the snow is hard and consistent so we will go for it tomorrow and hope for the best!

2 comments:

  1. 13 below and bullet proof here but sunny and warming nicely -- a brilliant morning on Mansfield. Skiing is believing...

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