Canada is almost here!

Canada time is almost here. We have been working like mad to get rides put together, to make sure that everyone makes it up there.

We're leaving on the 1st and it should be a grand time. I just got done fixing about 50 gates, so we have a very nice gate count going into the season. We also have some additional fencing and sinage, that we have not had in the past. Looks to be a great year!

Hopefully everyone had a great Christmas and will have a Happy New Year!

I will try to post some entries on the blog from Canada!

On-hill Practice

We had our first on-hill practice today. It was great. We had over 20 people today and the weather wasn't too bad. It was nice to see how many people showed up, in-spite of the whole Finals thing.

Last "Dryland"

Well, it was a great last Dryland practice. The foot of soft fluffy snow made it a good workout and a lot of fun. We had a good turnout and a great time.

Next week we start on-hill, so that will be very exciting!!!

Second to last Dryland

Well, we had a pretty good turnout for the second to last Dryland practice today. It was a good warmup to the finals on Thursday.

Grimmas got beat up pretty good, but otherwise things went well.

Supposedly there is some snow coming our way over the next few days, but the temps are pretty warm and the weather man never seems to be able to get the snowfall predictions right. As of now, we have only had a total of about 2 inches of snow and most of that is gone or trampled away.

-AR

USSA Race

Well, we had quite a good showing out at the USSA race this past weekend (if anyone has pictures, please send them my way and I will post them).

We got our new jackets, just in the nick of time and it was great to see so many of them on the hill.

I was out there on Saturday and my foot held up well enough. It's much better today, which is good news.


The results from that race are online at: http://www.skifast.com/results.html, all-in-all there were some pretty good results, especially considering that most people haven't even been on the snow yet.

Spirit opens full time as of the 16th, which will be nice. We will be practicing Mon-Wed of finals week.

T-minus 3 Drylands Left

It's been a good season of Dryland Practices this year, but we only have 3 left, with the final one being Thursday December 15th. That will be DEATHBALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS.

Hopefully we will have a good turnout for the last dryland of the year. After that, we will be on hill during finals week and then off until we head out to Canada.

Hopefully everyone has been getting some time on snow to get their legs back under them. There is a USSA race at Spirit this weekend to kick off the USSA season and we will have several folks from the team racing in that. It should be a blast!

-AR

Skiing Dec 3-4 At Spirit

Well, I saw a few folks from the team out at Spirit this weekend, it was great snowmaking weather and Spirit has made a lot of snow. Not many rocks to speak of. It's been so cold though, that the snow hasn't really setup and it is pretty chunky in many places. Hopefully it will settle this week, for the USSA race out there this weekend. Should be a good time.

We are getting our team jackets on Friday, so we should have them for the race and that will be nice.

Only 11 more days until Spirit opens full time and we can get on the snow and start practicing!

Practice Thurs Dec 1st

Well, I heard there was a pretty good group at practice on Thursday. Kyle said that he will for sure be sore, but probably nobody else.

I had to go to a meeting at Spirit regarding training for the season, with the other coaches from area teams. Looks like our training will pretty much be the same as other years. See the Calendar on our website for updates to training schedules.

I did bring up the lighting issues on 7, that we seem to face quite often. Hopefully that situation will be improved this year.