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A week ago with fingers crossed sled dog enthusiasts hoped for snow. But there was “no joy in Mudville,” taken from\u00a0a 19th century poem about a baseball player\u00a0who strikes out at bat. Two of California’s most unique and challenging sporting events, Mavericks Big Wave Surf Championship<\/a>\u00a0and Siskiyou Sled Dog Races<\/a>, have not\u00a0held\u00a0their 2015 contests due to lack of waves and lack of snow. The countdown is on for Titans of\u00a0Mavericks surfing event which closes its window of opportunity to call a contest by\u00a0March 31. Brian Overfelt, owner of the Old Princeton Landing, who is in charge of event relations at Mavericks surf contest said, “Maintaining high standards and putting on the best possible big wave event may mean not hosting it every year.” Likewise, after several cancellations\u00a0of\u00a0the sled dog races\u00a0the event planner posted sentiments to describe the situation: “Our race site is currently dirt and asphalt, birds are migrating north, snow levels are 2000 feet above our race site in steep and rocky terrain unsuitable for dog sled races.” \u00a0More\u00a0than 10 ski resorts in California have closed recently\u00a0due to deteriorating conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A week ago with fingers crossed sled dog enthusiasts hoped for snow. But there was “no joy in Mudville,” taken from\u00a0a 19th century poem about a baseball player\u00a0who strikes out at bat. Two of California’s most unique and challenging sporting events, Mavericks Big Wave Surf Championship\u00a0and Siskiyou Sled Dog Races, have not\u00a0held\u00a0their 2015 contests due […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19952"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}