Even though there’s still a few weeks of summer, the Labor Day weekend traditionally marks the transition to the Fall training season, and Far West Nordic has wrapped up a highly successful series of summer Junior training camps for 2008.
JUNE LAKE CAMP (recap by Nancy Fiddler)
Our first “all-comers†camp of the season was the ever-popular, traditional June Lakes Camp, held in the beautiful eastern Sierra Nevada area in July. Led by Far West’s Head Coach Ben Grasseschi, with able assistance from Nancy Fiddler and Martin Benes, twenty four Far West Junior athletes from Truckee to Bishop gathered at the Oh! Ridge campground for 4 days of training, including running, strength, hill bounding, swimming, hiking, and even some rock climbing.
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<p>Friday's highlights included ski walking at June Mountain, excellent views of a giant osprey nest (including osprey), some refreshing swimming in June Lake, a HOT, dry classic rollerski session near Crowley Lake, and a pasta dinner. At the end of the day, spirits were still high for the team. Any whining that occurred was not because of the training, but because there wasn't going to be a trip to Mammoth Lakes to see The Dark Knight that evening.</p>
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