“Our training camp at Wolf Creek exceeded all of our expectations, The venue was awesome, the resort was amazingly supportive and the local skiers cheered us on while we trained.
SNOWBOARDING WOLF CREEK PROFESSIONAL
Team members met spectators and aspiring professional skiers alike, signing water bottles, helmets, stickers and anything else that would hold a signature for over an hour and a half. Not only did athletes get in quality skiing time, they also spent quality time with their fans on Saturday (November 10) afternoon. Since our nine days of projected on snow training in Kaprun was canceled, we filled the void with six days in Wolf Creek, and added four more days to our pre-World Cup Ruka training." “It is a goal to have at least six days on snow each month. “We target 60 days of on-snow training during our ‘prep period,’” explains Martin. Moguls Team trained six days on the Wolf Creek course, averaging about 12 runs per day, per athlete. The result was a 150-meter long course, featuring 14 top turns into a jump site with a 30-degree landing, followed by a 12 turn finish. Ski & Snowboard staff Matt Gnoza, head moguls coach Caleb Martin, moguls world cup coach Vladimir Lebedev, moguls world cup coach two Telluride Freestyle Team staff and four Wolf Creek employees all pitched in time and hard work to make this camp a reality. It took three days of hand shoveling before the course was ready for athletes. Just because a ski area is open, that doesn’t mean it is ready to host moguls training. It’s amazing to have this kind of high-quality training during the first week of November.” Wolf Creek is providing the best mogul training in the world at this time. The course is in a natural gully where additional snow has blown in. “The snow is fantastic in Wolf Creek,” said Caleb Martin, world cup moguls coach for U.S. Moguls Ski Team was all too excited to get to work on it. The resort has received 58 inches of its characteristically dry, light snow so far this season, and the U.S. Wolf Creek opened to the public on October 13, the second earliest opening date in the resort’s history. Luckily mother nature cooperated in Colorado where early and consistent snow has fallen, allowing many resorts to open earlier than expected. Due to a lack of snow in Austria, the team had to change their original plans of training in Kaprun for a nine-day prep camp in November. Moguls Ski Team wrapped a successful week of training at Colorado's Wolf Creek Ski Area on November 11. It is now much easier to ski downhill and not have to worry about missing a cat track that would save you a hike.The U.S. Previous to these lifts, it was harder for new skiers to avoid needing to hike out of certain terrain skier's right of the Alberta lift, so keep this in mind if reading reviews of the mountain more than a few years old.
Both lifts eliminate what were longer flat cat tracks- Charity Jane eliminates Lagerfest's uphill section and Elma eliminates the need to use Park Avenue as a long flat cat track to return to the main base area. With the addition of the Elma and Charity Jane lifts in the last decade, the Alberta area is much easier to navigate.
SNOWBOARDING WOLF CREEK HOW TO
Part of skiing the mountain effectively is recognizing how to string together the steeps. In most of the mountain you have short hits of technical terrain and then mellow benches before you hit the next band of steeps. There is a ton of technical terrain here- cliffs, chutes, gullies, couloirs and cornices. The Alberta area is 1000 acres with only a handful of cleared runs. Trees are amazingly good here, all over the mountain you have well-spaced trees.
Outside of Christmas and Texas Spring Break this mountain is has no lift lines and if you already have a pass or lift ticket you can easily park where you can walk 50 feet to a run and ski down to a lift. Few placed get this much snow with this little competition for getting on that powder. Wolf Creek breaks you for skiing elsewhere.
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