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High School Alpine Racing

High Schoolers, juniors manage to squeeze two races into the confusion on Mount Hood

The Mount Hood Racing season is off to a confusing start due to lack of snow followed by a huge blizzard, but racers did manage to squeeze in a couple of slalom competitions on Saturday....

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Alpine Olympics/World Cup

Three Huge Reasons Why the Sochi Olympics are Going to Rock

Yes, Lindsey Vonn is out with an injury. Yes, Bob Costas is pompous. And yes, Vladimir Putin is a tyrant. But none of that will stop the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia next month from...

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Alpine Olympics/World Cup

Lindsey Vonn’s Olympic exit increases the pressure on 18-year-old Mikaela Shiffrin

Skiing superstar Lindsey Vonn’s announcement that she will miss competing in the Olympics next month does more than just prove she is human....

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Terrain Park News

Vancouver start-up eyes the growing backyard shred market

Casey Karlsen wanted to improve his snowboarding style with summer practice, so he thought he would look into setting up some rails in his back yard....

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Alpine Olympics/World Cup

Mikaela Shiffrin handles some nasty race conditions to win back control in World Cup slalom

Mikaela Shiffrin powered through goggle-sticking sleet, massive ruts and a ridiculously turny top section in Bormio, Italy to win her record-tying sixth World Cup slalom race at the age of...

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High School Alpine Racing

341 high school racers shred the gates in a variety of outfits for the 2014 Christine Cato Memorial

More than 340 high school competitors from Metro Portland and the Gorge opened the racing season on Mount Hood by ripping through the gates in blustery conditions on the Magic Mile Saturday...

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Racing

Lack of snow forces the cancellation of two out of three Mount Hood races, but the Cato Memorial is still on

Opening weekend for Mount Hood youth and recreational racers has been pushed back indefinitely due to lack of snow, but the high school season will open on Saturday with a race on the Magic...

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Terrain Park News

Vista Heights is Open

The Mt. Hood Meadows park crew has made the most of limited snow coverage on Vista Ridge by building a new terrain park there....

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Slopestyle/Rail Jam

Freestylers shred through the ice at first USASA rail jam

A crazy ice storm on the east slope of Mount Hood didn’t stop skiers and snowboarders as young as six years old from opening the USASA Mt. Hood Series with a steady flow of rail jam...

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Alpine Olympics/World Cup

Chodounsky Who?

The top American racer in men’s World Cup slalom races so far in 2013-14 has not been Ted Ligety or Bode Miller, but rather David Chodounsky, who spent part of the summer of 2013...

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