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Show The Park Record B-6 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, March 18-21, 2017 Thousands cheer at Aspen World Cup THE GOLD STANDARD OF REAL ESTATE Steve Gold 435.659.5868 stevegold.parkcityrealty@gmail.com Park City Realty is locally owned Vonn and Ross both crash in their respective runs Submitted by USSA Travis Ganong (Squaw Valley, California) led the way for the U.S. Ski Team on Thursday in a challenging super G at the Audi FIS Ski World Cup Finals on another sunny, warm, spring-like Colorado day. “It’s nice to be done with the season and also, it’s nice to be able push one last race and have a good result,” said Ganong, who finished eighth in his final World Cup race of the season and now heads off to Sugarloaf, Maine, for the U.S. Alpine Championships March 25-28. Austria’s Hannes Reichelt took the men’s victory over Wednesday’s downhill winner Dominik Paris of Italy. Mauro Caviezel of Switzerland and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway tied for third. Andrew Weibrecht (Lake Placid, New York) was 17th. In the women’s event, Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein mastered the soft, aggressive snow to take the victory and the overall World Cup super G title. Slovenia’s Ilka Stuhec, who led the super G standings heading into Thursday’s race by just 15 points, finished second on the day, as Italy’s Frederica Brignone rounded out the podium in third. Stuhec now trails Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, Colorado) by 198 points in the battle for the overall World Cup title with just two races remaining – slalom on Saturday and giant slalom Sunday in Aspen. Both Lindsey Vonn (Vail, Colorado) and Laurenne Ross (Bend, Oregon) did not finish the super G. Vonn skied through a gate and crashed, while Ross got knocked off balance in a compression and also crashed. Both were OK and skied to the finish. “I think I just released the ski a little bit too early, and then once I realized that I didn’t have enough direction, I tried to really hammer on it,” said Vonn, who was working to carry her speed off the top portion of the course. “But I didn’t really have the strength or power to make it back. I almost had it, but I didn’t.” “I’m not totally sure how I went down,” Ross said. “I think I just hooked up in a transition and high-sided, and landed on my side/bum/head. I slid for a while, but I’m OK.” Up next, the Audi FIS Ski World Cup Finals continue Friday with the team event, followed by slalom Saturday and giant slalom Sunday. Continued from B-1 same orientation. “We definitely see a lot of bikes coming out of Salt Lake and we feel like people are picking them up and showing up with really no idea what the etiquette is,” Sturgis said. “We’re going to make an effort next fall to work with some of the Salt Lake dealers.” The fat-tire biking community also needs to step up. Magerl, who is also an avid cyclist, likened the situation to when mountain biking was up-and-coming back in the day. There was a lot of pushback to stay off of the trails, but thanks to the mountain biking advocates, it’s now welcome in the community. It starts with creating fat-bikespecific trails. While there is one at Round Valley, the area needs more. “I think people will think it’s fairly dull to ride on the ski trail when they can ride on single track,” Magerl said. “Fat-bikespecific trails really aren’t fun and aren’t appropriate for skiers, so skiers won’t be on them. But that’s going to require the fat biking community helping to fund that, helping to build those, helping maintain those and helping to educate riders that this is the fun place to be.” In addition to all of these things that the community can do, there’s another simple answer that all can agree with: time. “The intended ski areas, though, are not for ski only,” Sturgis said. “They’re for everybody to use. Like everything, just like educating walkers to stay on side of track and not in classic lanes or reeling your dog in as skiers move towards you, all those things take a little bit of time. We’ll improve with various types of educational messaging that we try to put out there and that other groups put out there. It takes time.” That said, Magerl wants to warn those in the fat biking community to heed all of the advice that is already out there. Even though a majority of a group might understand the rules and etiquette, all it takes is one person to ruin the fun for all. “Unfortunately, there are some people who just don’t care about any other user,” Magerl said. “They don’t care that they’re messing it up or making it unsafe for everyone else. There are a few bad apples.” The end goal? Everyone gets to have fun enjoying the sport that they love. “It’s a good thing to remind people that the management policy, for Round Valley particularly, is non-motorized recreational use,” Sturgis said. “That means all these groups are welcome to join in together and they’ve just got to be cognizant of all the people in the sandbox. Some of us show up with different toys, but we all have a right to have a good time.” Fat-tire biking to any number of things, whether that’s creating erosion or whether it’s dangerous for an intermediate skier. A ski track isn’t dangerous for the biker, but the bike track is dangerous for the skier.” Everyone seems to believe that all of the winter sports, including fat biking, can coincide. Mountain Trails has installed signs on some of its trails to guide fat-tire bikers to specific trails, but sometimes, that’s not enough. A little extra work is needed from all parties. It starts with the shops, like Storm Cycles. For each person that either buys or rents a fat bike, a simple solution to the problem would be to provide them with information about proper etiquette before making the sale final. Henneman and company have been doing so with their customers, but there’s a group of people interested in the new craze coming up from the Salt Lake Valley that may not get that |