Middlebury/Dartmouth

We had quite an exciting weekend!  

Here is the short of it:

Geordie's win in the SL and second run victory for a 4th in the GS.  Victor's 16th in the Midd. SL.  Annie's best Carnival GS result, 11th. Chris, earning three point races and combining with Victor , Dylan and Carson to provide three scorer's in every event. 

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we had a race winner!!!!!!! Top step of the podium!

Katy prepares for the races at Jiminy

Warming up

Jiminy GS training session

Juice Time for the Boards

Sarah keeps warm at the Dartmouth start

Chris gets ready to send it, while Geordie tries to keep out of the wind below 

Racers get a ride up because the lift cannot run in these high winds.  It became a very exciting scene - athletes sliding back off the end of the rope, sliding into each other, falling off the line altogether!  Quite a scene out there!

Annie and Ed, keeping it light

Athletes clamber off the snow cat and hike through the woods to the start.

Thanks for such a fun and successful weekend!

Suicide Six Slalom

We raced at S6 last Sunday. After some pretty tough weather this winter so far, it was really nice to soak up some vitamin D. Highlights: Christoph made a huge leap from bin 41 to 4th at first run, winding up 12th overall. Way to stomp it out there. Carson spent the most time on the course first run, adding a Nordic portion in the middle. The race is the oldest in the country and there are some pretty great traditions that go along with it - like the sausage wrapped in pancakes dipped in maple syrup. I'd recommend it!

Livin the Life

A Six Pack of Racers 

Ready to Race 

On Deck 

Looking Ahead 

Keeping warm (and safe ... in case there is a fire) 

Above the Clouds 

Waiting in line for video analysis 

Pano of spinning

A good day of racing at Sugarloaf

Some Skiing

Loading the van 1

Loading the van 2

Loading the Van 3

 Carson Slaying

 Get it, Kendall

Sarah means business 

Shannon vs Mainstreet 

Laurel talks to Trilly 

New Paint Job

The Goggles

Coach L

Training with John Bradley - That is wintery mix you see on their coats 

Spinning Sesh

New Years Eve Race

NYE Race Proctor from Kelsey Levine on Vimeo.

Farms, Cattle Carts, Podiums and Sunshine

Sorry, fans - its been a while... wonder how many blog posts in the history of blog posts have begun with that line!  Anyway, apologies!  We have just been quite busy out on the hill lately that I haven't had a moment to sit and reflect on what a great kickoff we have had to our season.

Wrapping up Burke, you can see some of the smiling faces saying goodbye to our lovely cottage.  It was a pleasant stay, Wildflower.  We hope to see you again!

We then scooted off to Procotor to tackle the New Years Eve race and what a spectacular event.  Music was blaring from the bottom.  It was quite similar to what I imagine Schladming might be like.  Anyway, We had quite a successful day - capping it was Sarah's third place overall!  Congrats Sarah.  Annie was just behind her, in fourth place and Katy putting herself in the top mix with an 8th place - skiing from bib 30.  Carson also threw one in there with a 9th place.  We will have a video coming along here shortly to give you all a flavor of the evening.  Great event!

Great Goggles, John!

Following Proctor, the women headed over to Stratton for a 4-day Eastern Cup series.  Some days, class got in the way but everyone got some races in.  Highlights to Geordies two days of podiums - 1st and 3rd for the slaloms.  Sarah claimed a 14th and Annie took 10th in the first day of slalom.  Sarah kept up her high performance streak on slalom day 2 with a 12th place.  We also had a number of top 10 runs in the races - Shannon, Jocelyn, Annie.

Hi Kristina!

Geordie Wins!

Geordie gets third!

Shannon, Kristina, Nikki and I took the cattle cart to find the van - great GS moves out there, Nikki!

Ed went with the boys to Killington - I don't think he took too many photos.... But I heard that the guys were skiing well and moving up so nice work over there... didn't find too much for stories on the trip....


But after some races, everyone is, of course - excited to get back to Jiminy for some training sessions!  We have had doubles and triples this week gearing up for the best holiday season of the year... CARNIVAL SEASON.  Its going to be exciting, folks!  The teams are looking stacked.  Will be fun to see what happens out there.

Amy Preps

 Jocelyn warms up

Ed is scoping it all out

Over and out.