Sun Peaks is now home to a new club, and it’s already been busy planning for this year and next. The Sun Peaks Nordic Club was formed on April 1, 2012, electing a board comprised of four executives and five directors. Gunner Rasmussen was elected president of the club. “Twenty plus people attended the meeting,” explains director Phil … [Read more...]
While it was extremely disappointing to all involved to have to cancel the 2012 Subaru Velocity Challenge and FIS Speed Ski World Cup due to sponsorship funding issues, the sport of speed skiing at Sun Peaks Resort is long from dead, buried and gone. For the last 20 years the Velocity Challenge speed skiing race has been organized and run under … [Read more...]
by Alex Handy It’s a Thursday morning in Grenoble, 1968. The atmosphere is tense as Nancy Greene shapes up for her final run down the Chamrousse slopes. Firmly clamped into her super-straight Rossignol skis, Nancy charges to Olympic gold by an enormous margin of 2.64 seconds. Skiing has morphed into a very different animal between the 1960s … [Read more...]
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