Range Closed For Season/Bonus Skiing Days
The winter started out slowly but finished with some of the best skiing in years. The ski trails at the range are closed for the spring but we may have some other ski outings lead by club members or coaches. (if you have a trip you want to lead or have others join you contact Rick or Tim and have it emailed to the club or posted on the blog)
Like this one – Tuesday April 1st.
BONUS DAY!! WITH COACH PENNIE RAND
Spring Ski Tour, Fun on Snow and possible HOT Sugar on snow too!
Where: Cochran’s Ski Area alpine trails and backcountry.
When: Meet at the Cochran’s Ski Area parking lot area at 3:30
What: Ski tour with Pennie up into the Slope Side Syrup Cochran Family Sugarbush and onto the ridge.
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Have fun playing around on the alpine trails, go off the jumps, ski to the top, run through some gates!
Tour will be about 1 1/2 hour long.
Bonus: If we are lucky, the Slope Side Sugarhouse will be boiling and we can sneak in for a sip of the best tasting syrup around, right from the slopes where we have been skiing.
All ages welcome. Plenty of skiing for all. If you plan to venture off the alpine trails with Pennie you will want your touring gear….doesn’t have to be fancy, but you will want a bit more than your skinny racing skis.
Bring snacks and water.
RSVP to Pennie please. MRand@gmavt.net or 434-6047
Junior / BKL Photo Roundup
Last week was a lot of fun! We had a huge crew of people out jumping on Tuesday, then an exciting day of games and relays with the UVM Ski Team on Thursday. Thanks so much to UVM Coach Patrick Weaver and atheltes Cole Morgan, Jack Hegman, Rogan Brown, Maggie WIlliams, Madison, Marion Woods and Lukas Adamowicz for coming out and skiing with us!
Highlight of the day last Thursday was the relay races which teamed up BKL, Juniors and UVM skiers. Instead of a boring “tag” or handoff of a baton, we used the UVM jackets/vests as the “baton” and skiers had to exhange them in the tag zone. With a nice little jump and some sharp corners there was a lot of thrills and spills.
On Saturday a few of us went for an adventure tour up the Catamount Trail. Normally you’d expect crust skiing at this time of year but it was closer to powder — and still lots of snow!
After party!!!
2014 Junior National Champion and UVM’er Cole Morgan goes for a 360*
Bill Harmeyer catches air, Jack Hegman (2nd place 2014 Junior National champs) pre-jumps
Marika hands-off to Maggie Williams (2014 Junior National Champion from Idaho)
future UVM rippers!
Ava Thurston in her UVM vest
’round the 180*
Start of the relay with some elbows being thrown!!
UVM skiers: Madison (CO), Marion Woods (AK), Maggie Williams (ID), Lukas Adamowicz (Burlington), Cole Morgan (MT), Jack Hegman (Huntington) and Rogan Brown (CO)
Happy faces; thumbs-up
It’s a sport for all ages!
Eli Grossman
Esther
Henry Harmeyer (6th place 2014 Junior Nationals) showing off some moves
Camille Bolduc playing defense in speedball against Will Solow
playing hockey!
Charlie Cobb touring up the Catamount trail on Saturday 3/22… still LOTS of snow!
Ethan John in a photo finish at Eastern HS Championships
Liam John now at St Olaf
Sam Longenbach (now racing at St Olaf)ur
Junior open-training continues!
It is hard to believe that this is Spring… so let’s pretend it is winter and continue skiing!
Tuesday 3/25: Adventure skate ski at Bolton, 4:00-5:30pm. We’ll have some fun along with the BKL skiers! Bolton is giving us a special $6 trail fee.
Thursday: 3/27: Fun skate ski with games and jumping at the Range, 4:00-5:30pm. Possibly a chance to shoot biathlon!!
Sunday 3/30: MNC End of Year Celebration at Craftsbury! 10:00am fun ski, games with all of the MNC coaches, masters, BKL and Juniors!
Masters and BK This Week
Spring is here…. I don’t think so! Right now over the entire Northeast, we have some of THE BEST ski conditions we have seen in years. Take advantage of this opportunity enjoy skiing even though you may now be changing your focus to running or biking.
Our lease agreement with the National Guard carries us through the end of March so this is our last week of skiing at the range. Although trail grooming has officially ended there is a chance that some of the Guard biathlon team may do some grooming. If we get any new formation we will post it on the blog.
- For now Masters can plan on skiing (any technique) on both Tuesday and Thursday at 6 pm.
- BK will be at Bolton on Tuesday at 3:45 and early masters skiers are welcome to join us there. Please email Rick if you are going to be there and bring $6 per head to cover the trail passes.
- There will be no 3:30 Masters at the range on Tuesday.
- More detail on the Tuesday BK practice is in the previous blog posting.
Thursday we will a offer 6 pm Masters as usual – grooming is still a question mark at this time. This will also be the last EABC biathlon practice for the season.
Here are a sample of pics from Masters and BK skiing last week. Look for a pics from the NYSEF Nordic Kids Festival tomorrow.
Masters skiing “the other side” of the road
Masters enjoying a post ski outing to the Jericho Cafe and Tavern
