Masters Moments: Nyquist rules Snow King

Intermountain/Northern Masters
The weekend of GS/GS at Snow King Feb. 17-18 was a joint event between Intermountain and Northern Masters. The fields were small, but great competition. 

Intermountain/Northern Masters
The weekend of GS/GS at Snow King Feb. 17-18 was a joint event between Intermountain and Northern Masters. The fields were small, but great competition.  
    Some old-time locals came out of the woodwork: Dana and Deb MacKenzie, John Maguire, Tony Brooks and Matt Byerly, in addition to local regulars: Louis Abel, Harry Baxter, and Yves DesGouttes. Dennis Wilhelmsen, who grew up skiing at Snow King, but has lived in Montana and Idaho for many years, was fastest overall for Sunday.   
    Saturday’s race was won by Sverre Nyquist of Billings, Montana, from Northern Division. Even the general manager of Snow King, Jim Sullivan, joined the race in Sunday’s GS.    
    Snow King has a great hill for racing: hard snow, challenging terrain, good weather. Jackson Hole Ski Club did an excellent job of running the races. Course setters for the weekend included Todd Travis, JHSC; Bob Sarchett, Sun Valley; and Jim Ragan, Missoula, Mont.. Good weather held until after the last race and it started snowing heavily for the drive home.

Far West Masters
At Alpental, we had another slalom weekend. Two races on Saturday and one on Sunday. The first day, the conditions were good but it was a bit tough getting the hill in condition. Lots of slipping snow and salting. More slipping snow and salting. The result of all that hard work was some great slalom racing. Got even more snow on Sunday — some of it was a little wet but …
    David Russell and Debbie Coleman were the overall winners through both days. Knut Olberg had his video camera out and showed us all what we looked like, and was strategically stationed exactly where there was a hole in the course that caused some magnificent crashes.