The Trofeo Mezzalama is held each year between mid-April and early May in the Monte Rosa area. Click on this link to access a short video about the 2009 race. I mention this because, after we complete the Haute Route in March 2011, maybe we should take our heightened fitness levels and enter one of the many popular ski mountaineering team races! This race has a total elevation gain during the event is 9,389’, with descent totaling 10,318’, across 27 miles of horizontal distance reaching a maximum altitude of 13,864’.