{"id":2452837,"date":"2020-01-02T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=318637"},"modified":"2020-01-02T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T06:15:00","slug":"pros-edge-out-steamboat-springs-skiers-for-the-moose-barrows-trophy-at-wpst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/pros-edge-out-steamboat-springs-skiers-for-the-moose-barrows-trophy-at-wpst\/","title":{"rendered":"Pros edge out Steamboat Springs skiers for the Moose Barrows Trophy at WPST"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.5550122249389\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-318637-100\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/skiing-atd-010320-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/skiing-atd-010320-1-683x1024.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Shelby Reardon | A mix of local and professional slalom skiers competed in a World Pro Ski Tour race at Howelsen Hill on Thursday, Jan. 2.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>A mix of local and professional slalom skiers competed in a World Pro Ski Tour race at Howelsen Hill on Thursday, Jan. 2.<\/strong><br \/>Shelby Reardon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/skiing-atd-010320-1-683x1024.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"A mix of local and professional slalom skiers competed in a World Pro Ski Tour race at Howelsen Hill on Thursday, Jan. 2.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/skiing-atd-010320-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/skiing-atd-010320-1-1-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Shelby Reardon | Twp-time Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety took fourth in the World Pro Ski Tour race at Howelsen Hill on Thursday, Jan. 2.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>Twp-time Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety took fourth in the World Pro Ski Tour race at Howelsen Hill on Thursday, Jan. 2.<\/strong><br \/>Shelby Reardon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/skiing-atd-010320-1-1-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Twp-time Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety took fourth in the World Pro Ski Tour race at Howelsen Hill on Thursday, Jan. 2.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/skiing-atd-010320-1-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/skiing-atd-010320-1-2-683x1024.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Shelby Reardon | Robert Cone was the victor in the World Pro Ski Tour race at Howelsen Hill on Thursday, Jan. 2.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>Robert Cone was the victor in the World Pro Ski Tour race at Howelsen Hill on Thursday, Jan. 2.<\/strong><br \/>Shelby Reardon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/skiing-atd-010320-1-2-683x1024.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Robert Cone was the victor in the World Pro Ski Tour race at Howelsen Hill on Thursday, Jan. 2.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/pros-edge-out-steamboat-skiers-for-the-moose-barrows-trophy\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/pros-edge-out-steamboat-skiers-for-the-moose-barrows-trophy\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">STEAMBOAT SPRINGS \u2014 In his inaugural World Pro Ski Tour race, two-time Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety worked his way to the semifinals. He stepped up to the gate next to the previous event winner, Robert Cone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Ligety won the first dual slalom race, but to ensure the matchup was even, the two raced again but on opposite courses. Making up a small deficit, Cone edged out Ligety to move on to the final where he won his second straight race of the season and the Moose Barrows Trophy at Howelsen Hill Ski Area on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt was great to race against Ted, but he\u2019s just a rookie,\u201d Cone said with a chuckle. \u201cWe\u2019ve done this. I\u2019ve been doing this for a couple years now and this is my second start of the year. I\u2019m getting confident up in the start. I definitely had a little bit of a hiccup in the finals, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The hiccup was more of a stutter. Cone leaned against the metal gate a little too early, so when it did open, his weight was shifting back again, rather than forward. That allowed reigning World Pro Ski Tour champion Phil Brown to take the win in the first round of the finals. In the second round, Cone closed the small gap quickly, but won uncontested as Brown crashed and missed gates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI was just trying to stay focused and make it to the finish,\u201d Cone said. \u201cI didn\u2019t know how bad he messed up, if he was out or not. I had to be balanced and make it to the bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">To determine who got the third-place check, Ligety raced Garret Driller, another World Pro Ski Tour athlete who won the Murphy Roberts Holiday Classic at Howelsen ahead of the holidays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Driller, who had been making improbable comebacks in round-two races all night, won over Ligety to take third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThis is actually my first time skiing here at Howelsen Hill. It was fun,\u201d Ligety said. \u201cIt\u2019s not an easy hill, for sure. There\u2019s a lot of twists and turns in terrain and fall away. It was an action-packed hill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Ligety, who regularly competes on the World Cup circuit, didn\u2019t come in expecting the World Pro Ski Tour to be easy. He knew it would be a challenge and was impressed with the young talent he faced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The round of 16 featured six Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club members. Trey Seymour, Hig Roberts, Michael Bansmer, Colton Sankey, Kyle Kagan and Chase Seymour all competed. Roberts had the privilege of racing alongside Ligety, while Chase Seymour found himself in the starting gates next to Brown, a Canadian Olympian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI would say it raises everybody up a little bit,\u201d Seymour said. \u201cNormally I wouldn\u2019t be very close to them in any races, then when you\u2019re kind of head-to-head to them, it gives it more of a race feel. When you\u2019re actually going next to them, you can see where they\u2019re carrying speed more than you, where you\u2019re catching up, and you can fix that for the next run.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Seymour and the other SSWSC athletes all fell in the round of 16, as the more seasoned slalom skiers advanced to the quarterfinals. Seymour said he learned a lot over the course of the evening, though, especially about the start gates, which he doesn\u2019t encounter at his level of competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThey\u2019re kind of tough,\u201d Seymour said. \u201cThey\u2019re metal gates, they open up on a timer, so if you go too early, you\u2019ll just run into them. If you go too late, you\u2019re gonna be behind. They told me the timing and how to rock back and forth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In his World Pro Ski Tour debut, Ligety also had to learn to manage the gates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s so much different than World Cup where you can kind of take your time when you want to get out of the start gate,\u201d Ligety said. \u201cYou got to be on top of your game, not on your program, but on the course\u2019s program. It\u2019s definitely a different mental game in that respect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:sreardon@steamboatpilot.com\">sreardon@steamboatpilot.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/pros-edge-out-steamboat-skiers-for-the-moose-barrows-trophy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mix of local and professional slalom skiers competed in a World Pro Ski Tour race at Howelsen Hill on Thursday, Jan. 2.Shelby Reardon Twp-time Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety took fourth in the World Pro Ski Tour race at Howelsen Hill on Thursday, Jan. 2.Shelby Reardon Robert Cone was the victor in the World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 23:03:51","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}