U.S. women's Alpine Ski Team prepping for season at Copper, Vail
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- Created on Wednesday, 10 November 2010 15:13
- Written by Nathan
Photo by Mark Fox, Summit Daily News
By BRYCE EVANS, SUMMIT DAILY NEWS
COPPER MOUNTAIN — A flurry of morning snow settled onto the super-G course set up on Copper Mountain's Main Vein run Tuesday. Visibility got a little tricky, and the course got a little slow.
Still, it didn't bother Laurenne Ross one bit, even if the U.S. Alpine Ski Team's training session was cut a little short.
“It's kind of nice having some snow. ... It feels like winter again,” she said. “In the fall and summer when we're training, it's really slushy snow, and having the good snow here, it makes you feel like winter is finally coming.”
And for Ross and the rest of the women's national team, the competition season is finally here. The team had its first event of the season — a World Cup giant slalom race in Soelden, Austria — in late October, and it heads to Finland this weekend for a slalom competition.
Meanwhile, the team has been training in Colorado, splitting days between Copper and Vail, for the last week or so.
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