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Show Ski Session Completed the remainder of the training train-ing session for the Crosscountry Cross-country team will resume on snow in mid-September with a two-week session at a site to be determined later. Following Fol-lowing a short break, the skiers will return to Cooke City in mid-October for approximately ap-proximately four weeks of intensive on-snow training. Training will then return to the East Coast as team heads for Quebec City for a concentrated period of training train-ing and possible early competition com-petition with the Canadian-team. Canadian-team. Immediately following a short Christmas holiday break, the Olympic Team tryouts will begin in Lake Placid, New York, culminating culminat-ing what will be for many, the most extensive training ever undertaken by a UJ3. Nordic skier. Eighteen C ross-Country skiers, all members of the UJ3. Ski Team, completed a two-week trainingsessionon snow in the high country near Cooke City, Montana. The training session, perhaps per-haps the most extensive of its kind for U.S. skiers combined com-bined both Men's and Women's Wo-men's team members and launched the stretch drive for the U.S. NordicSkiTeam towards the Winter Olympic 'Games in Innsbruck, Austria, Aus-tria, next February. The purpose of the camp, according to John Bower, Nordic Program Director, was to give the skiers a first leg up on their ski training; an opportunity to log more miles on snow this year than ever before. In week session. Women's Coach, Tom Up-ham, Up-ham, remarked, "the experience ex-perience was extremely worthwhile and marked a technical improvement among many of the members of the Women's Team." In addition to Hall, Upham and Bower, Mike Elliott of Durango, Colorado, and Ron Kiesel of Ketchum, Idaho, assisted with the coachingof the team. Some promising young local skiers under the direction of Cliff Montagne of Bozeman, Montana, visited visit-ed the training session during dur-ing the final weekend for some observation and insight into the new training methods of the UJS.Ski Team. Bower also announced that addition, it gave the team members an opportunity to test the new skis which were provided by a variety of manufacturers, man-ufacturers, many of which will eventually make up the U.S. Nordic Ski Team equipment equip-ment pool. Men's Coach, Martin Hall, was impressed with his team's ability to ski so many miles this time of year and still sustain their intensive dryland training efforts. "It has also given the skiers a chance to reaffirm the carry-over value of roller skiing, a device which we employ extensively in the summer training period." Darrell Crabbe's Watauck Lodge at the Cooke City location loc-ation seems to be a perfect environment for the athletes to accomplish their training objectives. Due to an usually large amount of snow in the area at this time of year, training tracks wer set over a large variety of challenging challeng-ing terrain, enabling some of the top skiers to ski in excess ex-cess of 500 km in the two- |