19Dec 2017 by DS News Team
Moonlight Classic And Its Night Charms

Moonlight Classic And Its Night Charms

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..This site was launched on the premise that there is no better way to spend your hard earned holidays ( and some money) than doing the best sport ever – cross country skiing. Therefore, we have done in the past – and will keep on doing - to bring you highlights and the important bits of information & opinion about world's most exciting places to do just that – skiing. If it all reads and sounds like an advertorial, an infomercial, a product placement or whatever it is called – it's because it is. Is in a sense that more people we convince to go travel to place X, place Y and place Z – the better it gets for all of us, skiers, because it eventually translates into better…
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01Dec 2017 by DS News Team
La Sgambeda: Perfect Season Starter In Long Distance Ski Racing

La Sgambeda: Perfect Season Starter In Long Distance Ski Racing

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La Sgambeda stands out both in Visma Ski Classics professional series and as a mass marathon. It's the only real race both pros and amateurs at the beginning of the season – after the Italian race there will be hiatus of roughly six weeks (unless you're planning to run Vasaloppet China – in this case "only" about 4 and half) After two years of no natural snow and the race distance both shortnened ( in 2015 – significantly) and run on laps, the 2017 edition is "coming back to its roots" – a 35km track is prepared, thanks both to Mother Nature and hard work of organizing committee that patched over parts that were not quite snow covered. 700 people for 25 countries have signed up for the race. As…
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08Sep 2017 by DS News Team
And Now For Something Completely Different: Nighttime High-Altitude Ski Race That Bans Doublepoling Outright

And Now For Something Completely Different: Nighttime High-Altitude Ski Race That Bans Doublepoling Outright

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The Südtirol Moonlight Classic race in Seiser Alm, Italy has a chance to enter the record books for two distinct reasons. First, it is one of the most high-altitude ski races on the planet. The map shows that the highest point of the 30km track is at some 2,050 meters above sea level. The only other mass race with similar top point we could think of is La Sgambeda with its famed Grasso degli Agnelli climb ( sadly, often snowless in early December when the race is held and, therefore, skipped). As a reminder, anything above 1,500 meters is scientifically considered to be high-altitude. At 2,100 m above sea level, the saturation of oxyhemoglobin begins to plummet. There is simply not enough oxygen to help to power human body to do maximum…
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