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Old February 12th 10, 04:26 PM posted to rec.skiing.alpine
Walt
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Default snow for the Olympics

VtSkier wrote:
lal_truckee wrote:



Apparently the alpine events are fine, great snow. For some reason
they put the goofy events (pipe, skiercross, etc) down in the flats
and now are surprised there's little natural snow.


But this brings up a question, how can you have
a skiercross course without a hill?
I can see a pipe. It can be built, and in the
greater scheme of things, it's not all that big.
Maybe a few hundred feet long. But a skiercross?


There's a hill.

The "goofy" events are being held at Cypress Mt, which is "the flats" in
lal's mind.

Yes, there's less vertical at Cypress, it's not up in the mountains like
Whistler, but it's big enough for a skiercross course. Snow is another
issue, as lal correctly points out.

There's really no excuse for picking a venue where you have to truck in
snow in February.

//Walt
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