2010 U.S. Ski Cross Team’s pre-Vancouver Olympic Training Camp will call Sugar Bowl home 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 Vancouver.

The Tunnel 41 trail off the Mt. Judah Express lift at Sugar Bowl Resort will be the site of the training activities. Daron Rahlves and Casey Puckett both suffered recent on-course racing injuries, but both are on the fast-track to recovery and fully intend to compete in the Games. 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.

The course, while slightly detuned from the Olympic training camp, will also 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.