[FWM News] Mammoth GS Weekend

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Sun Jan 25 21:23:29 PST 2015


The Grania Feddis Anderson GS races at Mammoth were held on a beautiful weekend at Mammoth 
Mountain, with sunny skies and light breezes on the race venue. The Mammoth race crew and course 
setters did an excellent job preparing the course, artfully working around the thin spots in the 
coverage at the upper breakover onto Andy's Double Gold (ADG), and treating the masters by setting 
up a classy start tent.

Saturday morning opened with competitors inspecting the very firm conditions on the race hill, 
which was an intimidating warmup for many. After reminders that it can be more difficult to side 
slip and inspect than it is to ski the racing line when the racing surface is very hard, most 
competitors tackled the challenge and were pleasantly surprised that it *could* be skied with an 
attacking attitude and good edges.

We were pleased to welcome a number of new racers for their first Far West Masters race, including 
overall men's winner Brian Welch from San Diego, who showed that his years at the beach hadn't 
degraded skills developed as a ski racer growing up in the east.

After 2 races on Saturday and another on Sunday, most competitors went home tired but satisfied 
that they'd accepted and met the challenge of racing on demanding conditions.

Complete results are posted on the Race Results page along with updated Season Standings rankings 
for 2015. 

http://farwestmasters.org/raceinfo/2015/results
http://farwestmasters.org/raceinfo/2015/standings

(NOTE: age class season standings are posted; "leader bib" overall men/women standings will be 
posted after Scoring Director Deb Lewis can update the scoring software to handle the unusual 
split-courses results from the opening Mammoth weekend races)


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