The match will be remembered in American soccer for the elements as much as the 1967 Ice Bowl is in the NFL. As the snow increased, it made the field resemble a cake topped with piles of sugar, and players' hair turned white as snow stuck along their scalps.
That's how I found myself on the back of a snowmobile, puttering uphill, under a burning spray from dozens of snow guns, to the top of Easy Street, one of Sugar Mountain's novice runs.