PCSS’s XC ski racing and potluck Thanksgiving throughout the west

(L-R) PCSS Coach Drew Palmer-Ledger with athletes Trey Hudson, Lucas Fassio, and 1st place race finnisher Toey Hoffman training in West Yellowstone, MT. Photo: Augie Roepke

WEST YELLOWSTONE, Montana — Members of the Park City Ski and Snowboard Nordic Team (PCSS) happily spent Thanksgiving with family, teammates, coaches, and counterparts from locales like Jackson Hole, Vail, Sun Valley, Steamboat Springs, Grand Targhee, Crested Butte, and Big Sky doing what they love most— cross country skiing.

The annual event in the town of West Yellowstone, MT featured a potluck Thanksgiving dinner served after days of training camps and before a day of competition.

That competition yielded top ten results on the 3k and 5k courses of ‘meticulously groomed’ tracks by the following PCSS athletes in their respective gender and age categories:

• 1st Tory Hoffman
• 2nd Keely Fisher
• 2nd June Maxwell
• 3rd Bailey Carmack
• 6th Ian Carmack
• 7th Allison Berry
• 7th Elsa Futch
• 7th Lucas Fassio
• 8th Liam Demong

Without complaint, they skied their ways to the top in temperatures that, at times, dropped to depths of negative 30 degrees.