Crews at Beaver Creek were able to deliver, and there will be public skier access on Friday.įor more information on accessing the free races Friday (downhill), Saturday (another downhill) and Sunday (super-G), and other things to do during your time at Vail and Beaver Creek, go to the official Birds of Prey World Cup website.įor results of Wednesday’s training run, go to the International Ski Federation website (American Ryan Cochran-Siegle, the 2022 Olympic silver medalist in super-G, was seventh). The big question at the Beav’, as always, was whether there would be skier access to Red Tail Stadium down Red Tail ski run, as well as lift access back out. After that, snow showers could hang around for the weekend, with more snow possible early the following week around December 5-6,” Gratz added.Īs of Wednesday morning, Vail was up to 30% of its terrain open, with 13 of 34 lifts serving 85 trails, Beaver Creek was up to 9% of its terrain open, with 6 of 25 lifts serving 18 trails, including parts of Bachelor Gulch. “In addition to powder on Friday, we will also deal with strong winds. Wednesday and Thursday will be dry, then the next storm will bring snow on Friday between about midnight and noon,” meteorologist Joel Gratz wrote Wednesday morning. “Tuesday was a fun powder day for most central and northern mountains. It comes on the heels of a foot of fresh Tuesday. Good thing the snow’s been something to celebrate so far this season, and that looks to continue with another dump in the forecast for Friday, just in time for the first Birds of Prey downhill. Since Vail Resorts was always the primary sponsor, that may mean the event is just another victim of the all-time low relationship ( Booth Heights) between the town and the ski company. The normal celebratory start to the ski season here in Vail has featured some huge names over the past nearly two decades but apparently is the victim of a lack of sponsorship this time around. 18 – because the long-lasting (17 years to be precise) Vail Snow Days concerts have been scrubbed without a whole lot of fanfare. And the fact is we have a men’s downhill scheduled for Friday that does not run up against the USMNT’s knockout round matchup with Holland (although high winds could easily scrub it … the ski race, not the soccer).Īt least there’s no chance of a conflict for local music fans later in the (soccer) World Cup – slated to last until Dec. I blame FIFA’s beer-free money grab and moving the soccer World Cup to late fall due to the insane temperatures (and climbing) in Qatar for even having this clear sports-viewing conflict. ![]() Give me an event that requires a full-time Flight for Life helicopter any day of the week for its sheer, terror-inducing speeds and on-edge danger. ![]() ![]() Sure, Christian Pulisic’s heroics against Iran (pronounced in at least a third of America as “I ran”) came at a high cost (think Casey Affleck’s Vanilla Nut Taps … Google it), but nothing like the carnage we’ve witnessed over the years on the Birds of Prey Course (I’m looking at you, Aksel Lund Svindal). 4, 2021 in Beaver Creek (photo by Francis Bompard/Agence Zoom).Īpparently there’s a World Cup going on somewhere else on the planet the first week of December, which is weird because the vast majority of Earth’s now more than 8 billion inhabitants are usually fully focused on the Birds of Prey World Cup ski races this time of year.īut on Saturday, World Cup fans in the United States will have to make the tough, tough choice between watching the USMNT take on Netherlands or heading up to Beaver Creek’s Red Tail Finish Stadium to watch the fastest men on skis in the second of two scheduled downhill races. November 30, 2022, 3:29 pm Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup men’s downhill Dec.
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