Sunday River Stratton Tales

There have been a few major events since the last post.  Allow me to fill you in.  We had a trip to Sunday River.  The start area was very steep and icy - this is my excuse for not photographing the event.  Apologies.  However, there were some important events that you should be aware of.  The first is Shannon moved from 17 to 7th on day two, scoring in the low 40s and she has since made a match for this race up in Canada with a second place.  That was a big move for her but I'm quite certain this is a trend that will continue.  Stay posted.

Carson stepped up and won a second run at Sunday River, landing him in 4th place overall in the Open race.  

Christoph and Dylan both put down some extremely good sections of skiing and we look forward to seeing them put it all together in their upcoming races.  Just watch.

Max and Riley gave us exciting races to spectate as well, putting together some solid turns and we saw a lot of fight out of both of them.  Gabby started to loosen up in her final trip down the course, letting the skis really run.  And Merrit also put two runs together quite nicely. 

Yesterday a few ladies made the trip to Stratton for an Open GS.  It was seriously frigid.  The track was hard.  Nikki really stepped it up second run, skiing deliberately and cleanly to finish up 26.  Nicely executed.  Merrit also scored a race for herself - so congratulations there - And we lost Jocelyn second run to a rut but she was moving in the second run so that was good to see as well.

Last night, Christoph, Kendall and I made the trip back up there to beat the blizzard.  We had a fine evening at the Econolodge and made it up to the mountain in time to find out that it had been cancelled.  We met Carson there and he was just buckling up for some eastern pow on rental boards (for some reason he did not want try his 195s in the snow).  So... we drove back so Christoph could finish his paper... 

Here are some photos from the ladies' Stratton race -

 Ed in his armor

Jocelyn found some old friends at the start 

Nikki cannot wait to get in that gate! Super psyched. 

Pre race routine 

Nikki getting in the zone 

Jocelyn 

Merrit is in the lineup 

And she cannot wait to get on the course

Thats all for now.  The team is dispersing a bit for the holidays but look for some of them to pop up in Canada and Steamboat Sunday River Sugarloaf Sugarbush - 

AND FINALLY, lets go Pats -