Dave reports:
Not bad for the first race of the season.
Beautiful day on the beautiful Woodland Hills course in Elk River, with
hard-packed but not icy snow at 10 degrees and 85% humidity. I figured
you needed fluoros with the humidity and the debris
in the snow, as well as skis that weren’t going to wash out on the hard
surface. So I went right down the line with Fast Wax’s recommendation:
Flite Arctic over HSF Green over low-fluoro Teal, and used medium-stiff
flex Rossis with Finn Sisu’s uni grind.
At this point in my racing career, I count on fast skis to keep me in
the race, and I had good ones. What I lost in the uphills I gained back
in the downhills (and there are a lot of fun downhills on that
course). Ended up winning my age class and finishing
21st overall in a very competitive field.
The rest of the Vakava contingent had a successful day as well.
Evgeny Beletskiy 5th
Nate Porath 7th
Ryan Atwell 11th
Mike Nohr 52nd (starting his comeback after taking a break from skiing for 15 years)
Mary Beth Tuttle 4th, age-class winner
Katy Splan 8th, age-class winner
Anna Peterson 9th Here are lots of photos from the race.
