No snow? No problem for the organizers of the 2012 U.S. Cross Country Skiing Championships at Black Mountain of Maine. A bizarre weather pattern for most of the late fall and into winter has left most of southern and western Maine without snow. In the Lewiston/Auburn area, the temperature on New Year's Day pushed 45 degrees.
POWELL, Idaho - After a day on cross-country skis in the Bitterroot Range along the Idaho-Montana border, the dinner of spaghetti with elk meat was just the thing. We had driven the 58 miles from Missoula, Mont., to northern Idaho's Lochsa River corridor for a long weekend of Nordic skiing, the scenery a dazzling composite of mountains, snow-robed cedar trees and the rippling Lochsa, part of the congressionally- designated National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
cross-country skiing Tight finish in sprint
RUMFORD - Despite all of the preparation, the intense snow- making efforts and the state-of-the-art technology, there was one thing for which organizers of the 2012 U.S. Cross Country Skiing Championships had no answer: a last-minute deluge. Severe and long-lasting overnight rain moved through the Androscoggin River valley overnight into Monday and forced officials to postpone the first day of the scheduled five-day event at Black Mountain of Maine by one day.
The first day of competition for the 2011 U.S. Cross Country Skiing Championships featured a little bit of rain, a little bit of sunshine and 424 skiers traversing a surprisingly resilient ribbon of snow. When all the morning qualifying and afternoon elimination races had ended Sunday afternoon at Black Mountain, Washington natives Torin Koos and Holly Brooks each had won $1,200 and a national classical sprint title.
USSA XC JUNIOR OLYMPICS At Nordic Heritage Center, Presque Isle
MILL RUN - In any good beginning cross-country skiing class, one of the first lessons will be how to get back up after a fall. There are two good reasons for that.
Fall is gone, and winter has come. I have decided to do cross- country skiing this year as a winter sport. I think it is such a fun sport to do because it makes you feel good, and you can glide along with the wind rushing in your face. It's great team work to support you throughout the season. Everyone is nice, and supportive on the team, and we all like to have fun! With a small team, we are all very close and we are all friends. No one on the team is mean, or would ever hurt your feelings on purpose Everyone is treated equally and cheered on by everyone else. Some people get the wrong idea when they hear the words "cross- country skiing." What they automatically think is "boring." But it is not boring. Actually, it is far from boring. It isn't alpine skiing, but in my opinion, it's be...
A longtime cross country skier, who's tested snow coverings all over the world, said it best: "This is the most spectacular (cross country) skiing I think I've ever done ... the scenery is fantastic. The area he was referring to is Sundance Ski Resort, not some high-end, out-of-the-way nordic center in some hard-to-get-to, high- mountain range across the ocean.
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