With a need for a little recovery after a busy and productive Thanksgiving Camp, it wasn’t too stressful to see our snow/venue/lighting situation fluctuate pretty wildly this week. First there was the power going out at Sleepy Hollow, cutting the lights out in the middle of some skate speeds. Then it was the Range lights going out just after some intervals had thankfully been completed. Now we’ve weathered a day of rain and it looks like the cold is coming back as we begin the final prep for the Eastern Cup season.
On Saturday we made a trip up to Craftsbury for some classic intensity on the new sprint course, and everyone looked great taking the technical gains into the higher speeds. We kick things off with some short sprint races for the Sprint Doubleheader Weekend in two weeks so it was a good preview of how things ski and what to expect. We’ll incorporate some more practice with the actual structure of a sprint race next week to really get in full Game Mode.
Then the rough weather set in for Sunday, but that didn’t stop us from attempting a backcountry expedition. The wind and rain were pretty terrible in the parking lot but once we hit the woods toward Bryant Cabin things calmed down. The snow was incredibly East Coast-ey crust that made turning impossible, but if you could ski through trees and crud in this type of stuff NO downhill on a racecourse will seem challenging!
Deep into the Vermont forest with LOTS of snow!
Of course, like most of our adventures, there is of course a short video to share our exploits 🙂
