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WARREN, Vermont -- The Life-Link Ski Mountaineering Race Series is coming back to Vermont's Mad River Valley. A national race series sanctioned by the United States Ski Mountaineering Association (USSMA), the Life-Link races are held at some of the premier resorts in North America including such backcountry havens as Crested Butte, CO and Jackson Hole, WY. Last year marked the first time a race was held east of the Rockies when Sugarbush and Mad River Glen in central Vermont hosted an event. This year's race will be held Sunday, February 4th.
The race series test competitors' endurance, equipment and skiing skills while skinning up and skiing down some of the toughest terrain around the country. And the Sugarbush/MRG event will prove to be one of the burliest.
Competitors will begin at the base of Mad River Glen and skin up the Antelope Slope. Once to the summit, they will traverse the Long Trail to Sugarbush's Mt. Ellen where they will descend into the Slide Brook Basin via Rim Run, Lower Rim Run, and Lower F.I.S.
After traversing through the Slide Brook area, competitors will take one of two routes