{"id":1300778,"date":"2018-12-03T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/birds-of-prey-talon-crew-has-hardest-year-yet-with-18-inches-of-snow-and-world-cup-races\/"},"modified":"2018-12-03T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T01:03:00","slug":"birds-of-prey-talon-crew-has-hardest-year-yet-with-18-inches-of-snow-and-world-cup-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/birds-of-prey-talon-crew-has-hardest-year-yet-with-18-inches-of-snow-and-world-cup-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds of Prey Talon Crew has \u2018hardest\u2019 year yet with 18 inches of snow and World Cup races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/birds-of-prey-talon-crew-has-hardest-year-yet-with-18-inches-of-snow-and-world-cup-races\/\">Ross Leonhart<\/a><\/span>  BEAVER CREEK \u2014 Just like that, the world of professional ski racing came through Beaver Creek for the Xfinity Birds of Prey Audi FIS Ski World Cup.<br \/>\nAbout 18 inches of snow fell at Beaver Creek during race week, but all three men&#8217;s World Cup races went off without a hitch \u2014 thanks to the internationally recognized Talon Crew, a group of volunteers who dedicate days, sometimes weeks, to preparing a course that is both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/birds-of-prey-talon-crew-has-hardest-year-yet-with-18-inches-of-snow-and-world-cup-races\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Via:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/birds-of-prey-talon-crew-has-hardest-year-yet-with-18-inches-of-snow-and-world-cup-races\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Birds of Prey Talon Crew has \u2018hardest\u2019 year yet with 18 inches of snow and World Cup races\">Vail Daily Newspaper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEAVER CREEK \u2014 Just like that, the world of professional ski racing came through Beaver Creek for the Xfinity Birds of Prey Audi FIS Ski World Cup.<br \/>\nAbout 18 inches of snow fell at Beaver Creek during race week, but all three men&#8217;s World Cup races went off without a hitch \u2014 thanks to the internationally recognized Talon Crew, a group of volunteers who dedicate days, sometimes weeks, to preparing a course that is both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/birds-of-prey-talon-crew-has-hardest-year-yet-with-18-inches-of-snow-and-world-cup-races\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1300778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 19:55:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}