FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 13, 2010

Contact:

John Monson, Director of Sales and Marketing
Sugar Bowl Resort
(530) 426-6720

U.S. SKI CROSS TEAM AT SUGAR BOWL RESORT FOR PRE-OLYMPIC TRAINING CAMP, FEBRUARY 14-16

(Donner Summit, CA) – The Tunnel 41 trail off the Mt. Judah Express lift at Sugar Bowl Resort will be home to the 2010 U.S. Ski Cross Team’s pre-Vancouver Olympic Training Camp for the next three days, with medal contenders Casey Puckett and Sugar Bowl’s own Daron Rahlves fine-tuning their final race preparations before heading to the Games. Rahlves and Puckett had both suffered recent on-course racing injuries, but both are on the fast-track to recovery and fully intend to compete in the Games, with Sugar Bowl’s training camp greatly helping the cause. The course, built by Sugar Bowl terrain park manager J.P. Martin to loosely mirror the Olympic track at Vancouver’s Cypress Mountain, will provide the two racers with start gate and hole shot practice, fall-line and speed management repetitions, and ski wax testing with World Cup tech Willi Wiltz. Up-and-coming ski cross racer John Teller of Mammoth Lakes, who finished sixth at this year’s X-Games, will join Rahlves and Puckett, gaining valuable insight from the seasoned racing veterans.

Media and spectators are welcome and encouraged to attend the ski cross training camp, with numerous on-course viewing areas and access to the athletes, pre and post-training sessions. For further information and media credentials, contact John Monson on (530) 426-6720 or jmonson@sugarbowl.com.

The course, while slightly detuned from the Olympic training camp, will host a local race on February 17th, and then open to public skiing and riding on February 18.

Sugar Bowl will host a special Olympic ski cross viewing party at the Judah Lodge on Sunday, February 21st in conjunction with Red Bull, to cheer on Sugar Bowl and Red Bull athlete Daron Rahlves as he races for ski cross gold in Vancouver.

Sugar Bowl Resort celebrates 70 years this season, having provided some of the Tahoe region’s best skiing and riding since 1939. For more information on Sugar Bowl Resort visit www.sugarbowl.com or call (530) 426-9000.