Volunteers are working hard to prepare Kincaid Park's cross-country ski trails for the upcoming U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships, despite limited snowfall.
A crowd of volunteers gathered to shovel snow onto the cross-country ski trails at Kincaid Park on December 28th to prepare for the upcoming national ski races. While Anchorage ’s 2 inches of December snow isn’t ideal for this week’s U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships, Pauli, the chief of competition for nationals, is confident the Kincaid courses will be in fine shape when racing starts Thursday.
Pauli, with four decades of experience working in major competitions in Anchorage and a long memory, has seen it all. Anchorage has hosted the event more than a half-dozen times, including in 1983 when the city hosted both nationals and a World Cup stop. Pauli pointed to the last two times Anchorage has hosted — in 2010 and 2018 — as being similarly light with early winter snow. “We’ve dealt with this a lot,” he said. “I’ve seen it worse, and we’ve had nationals. It’s kind of par for the course this early in the season.” Celia Rozen, left, and Jan Buron shovel snow at Kincaid Park on December 28th to help prepare for the U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships. Pauli was joined at Kincaid by a host of volunteers Saturday who helped move outlying snow onto the trails for continued grooming. While snowmachines zipped back and forth with loads of snow, shovelers relocated snow to the middle of the trail from just off the outskirts. “There’s some type of method to the chaos,” Pauli said. “We’ve got a lot of other equipment that’ll come through later that will spread it and tighten it up as it gets colder for us.”Volunteers shovel snow onto the trails in preparation for nationals at Kincaid Park on December 28th. Trond Flagstad is a UAA associate Nordic coach as well as a father to skiers in the Alaska Winter Stars program, and will have skiers from both groups competing this weekend. “We have a really good base,” he said. “We’ve been racing on i
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