Olympic snowboarders to train at Michigan ski club

GAYLORD, Mich. — The Otsego Ski Club, Michigan’s only private ski club, will host some of the world’s top Olympic snowboard athletes training for the February 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Top board riders from teams from the United States, Japan, Australia and New Zealand will gather at the club in Gaylord, Michigan for practice sessions through December and January. The primary attraction to the Otsego club is the facility’s 22-foot pipe, the largest east of the Rockies. The pipe is very similar to the one they will perform on at the Olympics.

Otsego Ski Club members and guests will have a unique opportunity to “shred” alongside some of the world’s best riders in a perfectly manicured pipe, maintained by Pat Malendoski of Planet Snow Design. Malendoski and his Planet Snow team designed and built Otsego’s 22-foot pipe. They created similar snow board facilities for prior Olympic and national championship sites.

The Midwest’s only 22-foot Olympic style pipe and the seclusion and privacy offered by the Otsego Ski Club made for a perfect training site for these top snowboarding teams from around the world to train.

For more information about the Otsego Ski Club and how you can snowboard next to these top Olympians, call 1-(800) 752-5510 or click here.