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Masters Skiing
Masters Athlete and Masters-Athlete.com are the best places to stay up-to-date on Masters Skiing, both Downhill and Cross Country. At Masters Athlete, it is our goal to provide the very best coverage of the sports you still play.
In this section, you'll get the latest news, results, event listings, trend stories, equipment reviews, personality stories and much more about Masters Skiing, both Downhill and Cross Country.
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Cross country skiing in Iraq
By Sean Callahan
SEAN CALLAHAN'S BLOG (March 9, 2009) -- The American Birkebeiner, which took place last month, is the premiere cross country ski race. It's also quickly becoming the premiere cross country race in Iraq. Two Minnesota Army National Guardsman skied the race at their base in Iraq on Feb. 20, following in the ski tracks of two other soldiers who completed the Birkie in Iraq back in 2007. Click here to read more about the soldiers in this story that appeared on the Birkie Web site. . . . keep reading...>>
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The Top 10 Places to Live for Alpine and Nordic Skiers
By Dan Rabin
Steamboat Springs, Colo., bills itself as Ski Town, USA. We happen to agree. The marvelous downhill skiing of what may be the best resort in the country is combined with great cross-country skiing up on Rabbit Ears Pass -- not to mention the Olympic jump at Howelsen Hill overlooking downtown. Everything you can do on two skis you can do in style in Steamboat. And our praise of Steamboat takes nothing away from the other nine towns on our list, which span the country from Truckee, Calif.; to Hayward, Wis.; to Stowe, Vt. Read on to see the rest of our choices for the best towns for Masters skiers. . . . keep reading...>>
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Women's 40-49 Masters Athlete of the Year: Carolyn Beckedorff
By Brion O'Connor
Carolyn Beckedorff's ski racing career is going downhill -- fast. In February, the 41-year-old mother won both the slalom and giant slalom events at the U.S. Masters Nationals at Mammoth Mountain in California. For an encore, she won a gold medal in the women's 40-44 age group slalom -- and fourth place overall -- at the FIS Masters World Championships in Austria in April. "Standing on the podium, with the American flag behind me, and two Austrians on either side of me, listening to our national anthem, was pretty darn cool," Beckedorff said. "It wasn't the Olympics, but there were about a thousand people there, and my son was there, so it was quite special." Beckedorff has been skiing since she could walk, but didn't start racing in earnest until she was a teen-ager. . . . keep reading...>>
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Sick competition
By Allen Lessels
JAN KARR LEANED ON HER SNOWBOARD and waited her turn in the early April sun. She stood just off the stage and smiled often as the United States of America Snowboarding Association wrapped up its week-long 2008 National Championships at Copper Mountain in Colorado. Karr came to the Rocky Mountains by way of Nuba's Nob in Harbor Springs, Mich. "There's not a lot of vertical," she said of Nuba's Nob. "But we've got a great pipe." Karr, like the rest of the riders from young to old at the championships, loves a great halfpipe. "I love to scare myself," she said before being called to take her place on the podium. "I need to scare myself three times a week or I'm not happy. I guess I'm an adrenaline junkie." . . . keep reading...>>
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Mother Nature one tough opponent
By Brion O'Connor
The 2008 Skier's Edge Eastern Masters Championships at Whiteface Mountain in upstate New York was shaping up to be a raucous weekend of competition after a pair of scintillating Super-G events on Friday, March 7. Then Mother Nature delivered a knockout blow. "It couldn't have been better conditions" on Friday, reported Bill McCollum, coordinator for the Eastern regional Masters championships. "The hill was in perfect shape, hard and fast. We had sun filtering through thickening clouds, but nonetheless it was still sunny and warm." The ideal conditions resulted in predictably fast times, with many racers hitting speeds in excess of 60 mph. . . . keep reading...>>
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Engen skis to age-group victory in Birkie
By Ted Knutson
It was not all downhill for about 7,000 skiers (most of them 40 or older) at the 35th annual Subaru American Birkebeiner February 23, the largest cross-country ski event in North America.Russian-born Ivan Babikov, now living in Alberta, Canada, won the men's freestyle race by completing the 51-kilometer course in two hours, seven minutes and 8.9 seconds. Evelyn Dong of Bend, Ore., won the women's freestyle with a time of 2:23:43. In the 53-kilometer classic event, Russian Yuri Kozlov was the men's overall winner with a time of 2:32.25.2. Kelly Skillicorn of Winona, Minn., won the women's classic, covering the course in 3:00.43.3. Jon Engen, 51, a full-time cross country ski coach out of Ketchum, Idaho, won his age group in the men's freestyle for the fifth or sixth time in a row, he can't remember which. . . . keep reading...>>
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When he's 64
By Nancy Averett
Gailen Smith, 64, prepares to defend his titles at the United States of America Snowboard Association's national championship, which has divisions for riders in the 40-49 age group (Legend), 50-59 (Kahuna) and 60-plus (Methuselah). . . . keep reading...>>
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Heading downhill
By Dan Rabin
Champion Masters skier Lee Kaufman shares his workout routine for generating strength in his body and speed on the slopes. . . . keep reading...>>
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The Birkebeiner legend turns 800
By Phil Jurik
It’s the country’s largest cross country ski marathon. It’s celebrating the 800th anniversary of the legend of the Birkebeiners — Viking warriors who trudged 50 kilometers in miserable weather to save a young prince and who melted snow in their mouths to give him water. . . . keep reading...>>
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This Gang Loves Going Downhill
By Dwight Williams
During the snowy winter months, members of the Over the Hill Gang, a ski group for people over 50 that has loosely affiliated chapters across the country, gather most winter days at 9:30 a.m. at the base of the Steamboat Ski Area in Steamboat Springs, Colo. . . . keep reading...>>
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