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NASTAR director Bill Madsen has good reason to believe the late, great skier Spider Sabich would look fondly on the 500-odd racers who will take to the start gates at Snowmass Ski Area next week for the national championships of the world’s largest public grassroots ski racing program.
Kaya Williams/The Aspen Times A skier approaches the finish line during the slalom warm-up race at NASTAR national championships at Snowmass on April 5, 2021. Kaya Williams/The Aspen Times Staff prepare the race course before the slalom warm-up race at NASTAR national championships at Snowmass on April 5, 2021. Kaya Williams/The Aspen Times Tom Kennedy is something of a legend around these parts: The 69-year-old Aspen local is a regular at the long-running Aspen-Snowmass Town Race Series and has been competing in ski racing for nearly 50 years, he said at the base of the slalom warm-up course...