The 10-race American Ski Marathon Series takes off in early January at Craftsbury, Vermont and passes through nine different states before culminating at the California Gold Rush at Royal Gorge. The same folks who put on the ASM series are also preparing for the U.S. Masters Championships in St. Paul, Minnesota, Feb. 5-11. Subaru is title sponsor, but there's support from over 25 other companies, including Nature Valley granola bars. The celebration covers a Healthy Lifestyle Expo, pasta feed, silent auction, slide show or the 1998 Article Circle XC race in Greenland, and races galore - freestyle, sprint relays, pursuit, and classic. These trips are especially attractive to women, who customarily compose at least 50 percent of a Backcountry adventures in all seasons.
Every trip has at least one woman guide as leader and instructor.
It's a delight to share with beauty and passion for the mountains with like-minded people, whatever their age of experience with winter. For client convenience, Montana and Canadian holidays are scheduled six times each in February and March. I'm happy to say that great swimming pool is right next door. See you soon. He lives just outside of Boulder, Colorado with a wondrous wife who hates puns, and two sedate Catalonian Sheepdogs.