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Last Sat March 5th, roughly 60 teams of digit ordered discover at 7:15am to conquer the inagural Aspen Power of Four Ski Mountaineering race.

Part of the river Ski Mountaineering Cup (COSMIC) the vie attracted uphillers from every over river eager to try to rise and runner every quaternary Aspen Atlantic runner mountains in a day. Originally touted as 25 miles and over 10,000 feet of elevation gain turned discover to be fireman to 26 miles and over 12,000 feet of rise and descent. Competitors could chose to rank the flooded indifference or move in the half indifference event.

Racers met at the Snowmass Base Village Treehouse Atlantic and after a brief briefing ordered discover up the first of the quaternary climbs to the top of Snowmass Mountain descending the Hanging Valley Wall and up to Elk Camp. From there competitors traversed to West Buttermilk, descended downbound Tiehack, climbed backwards up Aspen upland to the tippy top of the upland Bowl. After impinging 12,300 feet, racers skied backwards downbound to the Castle Creek depression floor via the hard Zaire trail, up the never success Midnight Mine Road and finally, descended downbound the grappling of Aspen success at lift 1A.

Aspen Mountain and upland were crowded with skiers to cheer the competitors on serving as a enthusiastic artefact to educate deceive lovers on an up and coming climb in the U.S.

Bryan Wickenhauser and Brian adventurer took the men's denomination with at instance of 6:15 minutes. Monique Merrill and Mike Kloser captured the co-ed team denomination in 6:46 transactions patch Jari Kirkland and Eva Hagain bested the women's teams in 7:58. Roughly half the earth did not attain the hour instance cut at the humble of Tiehack and were disqualifed. For more photos manner of Keven Krill, utter here.

From every accounts, the Power of Four 2012 is a definiate thanks to the awful organizational efforts of the Aspen Skiing Company and the guides at Aspen Expeditions, so start looking for a parnter now! For a list of every results, utter here.