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If there was ever a year for the Edmonton Eskimos to get away for mini-camp, this is it.

With snow still blanketing the ground here earlier this week, the Eskimos coaching staff travelled to Las Vegas to begin preparations for the upcoming mini-camp at the University of Nevada – Las Vegas April 21-24.

“It’s one of the worst winters we’ve had around there and with snow still on the ground, it seemed like mid-September. So it’s nice to be down in Vegas where it’s obviously much better,” head coach Jason Maas said. “Anytime the players are soon to arrive and you go out there to get the field ready and have your plans in place and it’s only a couple of days away, it’s more a reality that football’s right around the corner.”

The club was more than happy with the facilities at Bill (Wildcat) Morris Rebel Park last year, after moving mini-camp headquarters from a couple of different fields in Florida in previous years, and are back in Vegas again.