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It feels like a spring skiing day with warm temps, sunny skies, and slushy snow! Our cross country running state meet is tomorrow and the running crew will head up north with Sverre & Liz and stay overnight in Lyme, NH (thank you to the Caldwell a...

It feels like a spring skiing day with warm temps, sunny skies, and slushy snow! Our cross country running state meet is tomorrow and the running crew will head up north with Sverre & Liz and stay overnight in Lyme, NH (thank you to the Caldwell a...

We're experiencing a little snow storm up on the mountain, so instead of our planned rollerski we headed inside for a video session where we watched some footage from our sprint practice two weeks ago (coming to the SMS video vault soon) and then follo...

We're experiencing a little snow storm up on the mountain, so instead of our planned rollerski we headed inside for a video session where we watched some footage from our sprint practice two weeks ago (coming to the SMS video vault soon) and then follo...

This morning we skied up to Lot 1 and did some classic speeds, starts, and technique work. It was a chilly training session up on the mountain that started with some very light rain and ended in the clouds. After 45 minutes of single sticking, downhi...

This morning we skied up to Lot 1 and did some classic speeds, starts, and technique work. It was a chilly training session up on the mountain that started with some very light rain and ended in the clouds. After 45 minutes of single sticking, downhi...

This morning we skied up to Lot 1 and did some classic speeds, starts, and technique work. It was a chilly training session up on the mountain that started with some very light rain and ended in the clouds. After 45 minutes of single sticking, downhi...

Gorgeous day for a skate ski! We headed down to Ball Mountain Dam for an easy roll under sunny skies. Everyone did between an hour and an hour and a half of skating with a good chunk spent no-pole skiing. Above, the girls pose for a photo after the ...

Gorgeous day for a skate ski! We headed down to Ball Mountain Dam for an easy roll under sunny skies. Everyone did between an hour and an hour and a half of skating with a good chunk spent no-pole skiing. Above, the girls pose for a photo after the ...

Gorgeous day for a skate ski! We headed down to Ball Mountain Dam for an easy roll under sunny skies. Everyone did between an hour and an hour and a half of skating with a good chunk spent no-pole skiing. Above, the girls pose for a photo after the ...

We kicked off the week the way we always do - with our weekly team meeting. It's a good chance to get everyone in one room, go over the schedule for the week, go over important details, answer questions, review equipment and clothing orders (new suits...

We kicked off the week the way we always do - with our weekly team meeting. It's a good chance to get everyone in one room, go over the schedule for the week, go over important details, answer questions, review equipment and clothing orders (new suits...

This afternoon the team did a nice classic ski out to the town of Stratton. Despite the morning being overcast and rainy, the weather cleared in time for practice and we had great, somewhat warm weather for training. The boys skied in one big pack an...

This morning we headed up to Lot 1 for some classic speed work before lunch. We did a few loops of no pole skiing downhill and single sticking uphill, followed by some quick double pole (10 double poles, as fast as you can) and some rolling start spee...

Today we did a distance skate ski and spent almost half our time on skis without poles. Lots of technical improvements all around and a nice, relatively easy ski for everyone after a harder day yesterday. Everyone skied between 15 to 25K and then we ...

On Friday afternoon we had our all-school relay as part of parent's weekend. It was a great chance for the whole school to come together and have everyone work as a team - and get competitive! Teams of 4 athletes (nordic, snowboard, alpine, and frees...

On Friday afternoon we had our all-school relay as part of parent's weekend. It was a great chance for the whole school to come together and have everyone work as a team - and get competitive! Teams of 4 athletes (nordic, snowboard, alpine, and frees...

This afternoon we did our double pole test for the second time since the beginning of the school year. Temps were 55F today compared to 72F when we last did the test on August 31 (rollerskiing is generally slower in colder temperatures) and the team ...