Lake Placid

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - Despite steady rain, falling temperatures and oncoming snowfall, Chris Mazdzer opened the 2010-2011 luge season Friday in Lake Placid with the inaugural training run of the fall campaign on Mount Van Hoevenberg.

As the training session concluded, temps were falling to the point where rain changed to heavy snow.

The 2010 Winter Olympian, from Saranac Lake, N.Y., led a group of 13 members of the U.S.