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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Update from Rumford: Rain and fog postpone alpine races, make for wet nordic course preview


10km later and 20 rain-water-pounds heavier, Dimitri Luthi gets ready to leave the course preview.

The fog that cancelled the alpine races.

It was raining hard this morning when we toured the race course, but thankfully we were eqipped with Multi skis and the tracks were surprisingly fast. We had a great tour of the trails, but are now hoping our boots dry out in time for the early start tomorrow morning!
The alpine racers were not so lucky today. Visibilty from fog was near zero and the snow was soft and slushy, causing both mens and womens GS races to be postponed until tomorrow. Their GS and slalom races will be back-to-back in the next two days as a result, but most of them are looking forward to some icier, hard tracks.
With temps dropping to 16 overnight the nordic races should be icy fast as well!

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