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A skier approaches the finish line during the slalom warm-up race at NASTAR national championships at Snowmass on April 5, 2021.
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Staff prepare the race course before the slalom warm-up race at NASTAR national championships at Snowmass on April 5, 2021.
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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 during the National Standard Racing (NASTAR) alpine racing national championships Monday morning.