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Monday, November 26, 2007

Acting on blind faith and strained hope, a friend and I headed to West Yellowstone, Montana, last Monday for a weeklong Nordic ski clinic -- despite the fact that there was no snow on the ground.

Thanks to some extraordinary luck, we drove into a major snow storm Monday night that dropped 15 inches and launched the town into the ski season. The consistent cold that followed allowed the groomer to continue to set track all week and we managed to get in about five hours of skiing each day for five days straight.

The Yellowstone Ski Festival is held each year during the Thanksgiving holiday week and offers five-day, three-day and one-day clinics for cross-country skiing. We generally classic skied in the morning, when the cold temperatures made it easy to wax, and skated in the afternoon. Groups are divided by experience and each session is run by a different coach. It's a great way to start the season. I'm ready to start getting the skis waxed and tuned for the first major snow storm.
posted by Martha Bellisle at 3:39 PM

 

 

 
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