Some photos and clips from a fun, snowy, productive volume camp at MSA!
We have been in a traditional East Coast winter weather pattern for about the past month: a few inches of fresh snow and good hardwax skiing, followed by a thaw/freeze cycle leading to a few days of klister and ice. Depending on the day of the week you could be skiing on extra blue or a goopeyklister/hardwax cover.
This wasn’t much different in Canada, as we did experience a little bit of everything! That makes for good productivity not just with training but also getting comfortable on new skis and with different conditions before the heart of the race season.
We arrived to 143km of amazing trails, and as a special treat we received a 2′ dump for our last day. It was incredible to ski for hours each day without crossing the same trail twice. We did some classic drills, some speeds, a timetrial with CSU, and a lot of kilometers of easy skiing at “Norwegian Level 1”.
Powder-blasting on a long classic ski…this particular ski involved 2 layers of blue hardwax and 2 hours of smooth tracks and snow so soft that a fall on a downhill made no noise at all
Trying to decide which trail to take…they make it easy here: Green = flat campground, Blue = steeper flowy trails, Black = wall-steep ups and downs on old World Cup courses (photo: Dave Priganc)
Dialing in the sauce of the day. They’ve got a gigantic wax room here, but it was still quickly filled up with the 150-person CSU “army” so you really had to lay claim to a bench
Taking a swing-break on day 1. By the last day the snow was well above the swing seats…shoulda taken a before/after!
Team fondue night in Quebec City hit a small snafu when my roof box didn’t quite make it through the parking garage. Ken and I had to do a quick removal and adjustment
Despite being right across the street from the hotel, I resisted Tim Hortons all week before finally succumbing to the call of the cappuccino on the last day. Luckily it was open early even after the big blizzard rolled through as you can tell by the snow!
Morning paper at Tim’s. Main story? Quebec being “paralyse”d by the blizzard. The inside scoop on the top left? Quebec possibly hosting World Cup Finals this year! This is Alex Harvey’s hometown and he is a big star (rightfully so!)
Back to the skiing. Did I mention that it snowed a ton before that last day??
Can’t complain!
Here are a few video clips. This week it’s back to business as usual in the snowy USA!
