Athletes not worried about lack of snow at Cypress
Publisher’s note: According to the Canadian press, tubes filled with a solid form of carbon dioxide have been placed in moguls and on the aerials course to create a dry ice-like compound to keep snow from breaking down. Cypress is 90-minutes south of Whistler.
By Philip Hersh, Chicago Tribune
VANCOUVER — There was only one subject on everybody’s mind when the U.S. freestyle moguls ski team met the press Monday.
Whether the snow conditions at Cypress Mountain would spoil and/or affect their competition, which is Saturday (women) and Sunday (men).
The answer was a resounding — and unanimous — “no” from the eight U.S. moguls athletes.
A helicopter lifts a hay bale to the slopes of Cypress Mountain near Vancouver on Jan. 27. Photo/Kathryn Reed
“We’ve skied in hot weather, cold weather, rain, we’re used to anything,” said Heather McPhie of Bozeman, Montana.
