MSA Pursuit Time Trial

Below are a few photos from today's nice and chilly time trial.  More photos can be found at:

http://jamiedoucett.smugmug.com/Ski-Photos/MSA-Time-Trial-2014/n-pgRXK/

Day 2, Ski 1

Several inches of nice, heavy wet snow fell overnight!!!  Amazing how much nicer everything looks with a few inches of fresh Pow.  Pretty nice skiing, although some pretty grippy snow which made those big downhills on 21 rather interesting.

Day 1, Ski 2 at MSA

Classic ski with technique work in the afternoon on nice sugar snow and either klister or Toko Base Green.  Still comfortably warm.  The Blue Group:

MSA Skiing!

A brief stop for a photo op with the Black group and Orange Group.  Nice sugar snow skating in nice temps before the next Canadian polar vortex settles in.

Prospect Hill time trial

Thanks to Andrea Brue and Erik Anderson for schlepping our sneakers and timing our race today at Prospect hill park, in Waltham. The course was up the hill (to "shoe corner"), out to the end and touch the gate twice for J2s and thrice for J1+, then up to the tippy top. Skiers braved a large patch of ice on a downhill, some slippery leaves before touching the gate at the turnaround, and a 20' section of gravel where the road had washed out just before the final climb. We all rediscovered what it feels like to push to race pace, and that feeling is HARD!  Great efforts and great attitudes by everyone today!

Results

James - 18:10

Jacob J - 17:34

Hannah - 21:10

Gabby - 19:37

Sam - 19:45

Madeleine - 22:07

Chloe - 25:42

Lucy - 25:36

Coach Albert (3 out-and-backs) - Somewhere between 22:30 and 27:33... missing start time

Jordan(3 out-and-backs) - 24:35

Sonya(3 out-and-backs) - 26:32

Alex(3 out-and-backs) - 25:57

If your time is wrong, please email me the right time - the finish crew did great, but I was a little sloppy on the starting side of things, and may have your order wrong.  Nice work!

Thanks to Andrea Brue for the pictures below.

Waterville Valley Today

Nice skiing up at Waterville Valley today on sugar snow, so nice and fast, which was good because I wasn't feeling particularly fast.  Osceola was gorgeous:

Photos from Prospect Mt

We had some excellent skiing at Prospect on Saturday. Coaches Frank and Alex took a van full of J2s and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves in fresh powder on an extra blue day.  The rime on the trees made everything look like a winter wonderland! Beautiful.

After a full day of skiing, you get four tired J2s... yes, there is someone under that Wellesley ski team jacket!

This shot is from Waterville Valley the week before last - found a nice chairlift to take a rest break at the top of Snows. Pretty darn good skiing for early season!