Trapps Skate Races

Here are a few photos from the skate race last weekend at Trapps.  Wonderful skiing on a beautiful day and the CSU Jrs. did well, as did Coach Rob! 

Gavin

Max

Julia in the Leader's Bib!

Charlotte and Zoe

Corey

Olivia

Rosie

Rion

Rob

Calvin

Greg

Sean

Trapps JNQ Classic Photos

A few photos of the classic race at Trapps last weekend!  Great skiing and a beautiful day.

Rebecca!

Hadley

Julia

Katrin

Maddy in retro CSU colors!

Doro

Eli

Nathan

Ian

Hank

Jordan

Frank at Sapporo Marathon, Japan

No story yet, but here are three photos of Frank's trip, with his father, to ski the Sapporo Marathon.  Frank crushed it in this World Loppet race and finished in 11th!!  Great job!  In one photo is Kei Ishihara, a former CSU skier and runner when he was living in the US for a few years.  Great to see he's doing well!  Kei finished in 121st and Frank's dad in 357th. 

Alex's trip to the Sierra Ski-O Tour

Most of y'all have been getting the emails about my trip to California for the World Cups in ski orienteering, but I figured I'd dump a bunch of photos here so you can appreciate the awesome sun and snow. Actually, they're mostly of me. I got a sunburn; that doesn't happen too often when I'm skiing.

This is Tove Alexandersson; she is Swedish, only 19 years old, and has won every world level ski orienteering race she's ever entered.

Ali Crocker, my teammate and training partner, killing it in the long distance race.

Then she got to stand on the podium at the award ceremony, with three Swedes, a Russian, and a Norwegian. Pretty cool.

This one is me. Sucking wind, hard.

Ali and me, about to head out training on our first day up high. Compare to the next photo...

This is after I've been moving for a few minutes. Need... more... oxygen...

Racing at 7000ft is not easy, incidentally.

Outdoor waxing is nice when it's always 50F and sunny.

We were at different venues each day, and they didn't all have waxing facilities. Here I'm making do with a picnic table and a railing to apply fluoro to my skis. Basically, without the CSU wax team, I'm hopeless.

Finishing one of the races - it is super hard to ski fast at that altitude, I had many issues just getting enough air to my lungs. Your legs don't get as tired, it's weird. After 4-5 days, I started to adjust; I could at least walk up a flight of stairs without keeling over at the top, but I never felt like I got my quickness back.

Mass start of the sprint relay.

They give you your map 15 seconds before your start. This isn't a heckuva lot of time, but usually at least lets you find where the first control is, and sort of plan a route, so you can start fast.

US ski orienteering team, in part.

Larry Berman tagging off to Sara Mae in the team sprint relay - CSU founders!

Snot rockets. Like a pro.

Ali is a woman of many talents.

Lithuanian team out training.

Skiing away through the trees. The crust skiing was actually really good, sometimes faster than the icy, rutted trails.

Cornering on a downhill. It was steeper than it looked.

Sometimes, you miss the trail and faceplant into the snow in front of all the photographers. Not like I'd know anything about that.

Who Makes It Happen? - Your Wax Team!

Like your skis?  Were they fast?  Thank your CSU Wax Team!  Up at the crack of dawn, setting up the tent before any college team shows up, freezing their hands off applying Jetstream, rilling your skis, rotocorking and polishing.....all to bring you rocket skis!  Like those skis....thank the CSU Wax Team! 

Did you get enough to eat?  Enjoy hot soup?  Thank your CSU Food Table team!


Most of CSU's Wax Team for Trapps - Jamie, Doug, Steve, John, Peter, David, Henry, Tom, Amie, Gunther 



6F, but we are set up, ready to roll!

John rotocorking

Steve brushing and polishing

Doug and David applying Jetstream

Doug applying Jetstream

Henry, working hard!

Amie running the show!

The heavily laden CSU Food Table thanks to Sandra and Donna, with lots of help!

Which Waxroom?

Which waxroom would you rather use?  On the one hand we have the Klista Sista's shiny, bright and clean wax room with narry an out of place scraping of wax or blob of petrified klister and woe to you if you don't put the tools in their place.....or.......the Man Cave, or as its known around here, the shrine to Toko and Rode, bright but decidedly not clean!  Where an entire season of wax scrapings lies on the bench, not to be swept up until April, junk lies everywhere (BUT, never out of place!), the trash can is full, but of course not emptied, heat gun hangs in readiness.....

Klista Sista

The Man Cave

Well, which would YOU prefer to wax in???  Maybe I should do a photo essay of CSU Waxrooms!

Alex and Ali at World Ski-O Championships

This just in from Aims, out in Tahoe-Donner area:

Alex Jospe will be too modest to toot her own horn and perhaps too exhausted to write a report, BUT YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS- today she was 13th at the World Cup Ski-O Sprint competition held on the Auburn Ski Club trails at Donner Pass. And, as the top skier from the US and Canada she won the North American Championship gold. We spectators saw a thrilling all-out finish and watched her drop exhausted to the snow for several minutes before she could remove her skis and download her timing chip. Way to go Alex!


Alex edged esteemed USA and CSU teammate Ali Crocker, who was one place back, by almost a minute. Individually Ali and Alex are the best US ski-orienteers we’ve ever had of any gender and as a duo are truly special. Today’s race puts their friendly rivalry onto an even higher level. Way to go Alex and Ali!

With the competition half over, they have four races to go, the World Cup Medium and Relay Thursday and Friday, and the USA Medium and Sprint Championships this weekend. Good luck and clean navigating to you both!

-Aims (who is in awe)