From news at lists.farwestmasters.org Sat Dec 15 21:08:45 2018 From: news at lists.farwestmasters.org (Far West Masters news) Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:08:45 -0800 Subject: [FWM News] Mammoth Dec. 21-23 opening races Message-ID: Read in your web browser: https://farwestmasters.org/#mammoth-opening-races What a difference a few weeks can make! Going into Thanksgiving everywhere was brown in the Sierra, with limited man-made snow at those areas able to open. But December rolled in with a lovely series of storms that transformed conditions and set up all our Sierra resorts with great conditions going into the upcoming holidays. Our first Far West Masters races of the 2018-2019 season will be held next week at Mammoth, with the postponed Dec. 1-2 races added onto the originally scheduled Fri-Sat races. We will now be racing GS on Friday 12/21 (as originally scheduled), two SL races on Saturday 12/22, and an additional GS race on Sunday (postponed race makeup). Mammoth Race Department will be providing a two-day training camp on Wed and Thu Dec 19-20, so come early if you can and get in a couple solid days of training before the races. Mammoth Mountain is now in full operation and the conditions are very good. Weather outlook for next week is also encouraging - after a moderate storm on Sunday/Monday, forecasts call for clearing and warm through the rest of the week, so we should have very good conditions to kick off the race season!! We realize the timing of the opening event will conflict with holiday plans for some, but after our delayed start of the season we wanted to take advantage of Mammoth's offer to host the additional races so that we have racing to offer those who can attend. If you can't make it, happy holidays to all and we look forward to gathering in early January at Heavenly and Squaw for our next event. Reminder: the early registration deadline is Sunday 12/16, so get your race signups in skiracereg.com/fw. Registration closes 8pm Wednesday 12/19; late entries and cancellations after the close of online registration are at the discretion of Mammoth Race Dept. https://www.skiracereg.com/fw -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: FWM-EventInfo-Mammoth-Dec-2018-Woollys.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 134090 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: RaceAnnouncement-Mammoth-Dec-2018-WoollysChallenge.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 377099 bytes Desc: not available URL: