Last Friday Heidi and MK took advantage of the NENSA seed for the carnival, and skied a 5 k against the region's best collegiate race. They mixed it up with several GMVS alums, and everyone had a great time in the springlike conditions.Kristin Halvorse...
MNC Elite Team member Bill Harmeyer passed along his recent video, "Bomb's Away". Filmed at Trapp Family Lodge a couple weeks back. Enjoy:Bomb's Away from Bill H. on Vimeo.
On Sunday we traveled down to Grafton for the J2/EHS Qualifier. After a nice cruise down Route 100, we were greeted by a sunny and fast one km loop that the kids would race around three times in classic and then skate technique. We brought ...
That was the question in a comment I got the other day. So here’s the situation. Devon Kershaw currently has 953 WC points, Petter Northug has 1199. Northug is apparently going to skip the next two weekends of WC racing in order to prepare for the Vasaloppet. Could Kershaw catch and overtake Northug in that [...] Related posts:
We had a group of eight racing at Grafton Ponds for the Vermont EHS/J2 qualifier this morning. Hamish and Mac represented SMS for the boys, while Issy, Anika, Brooke, Tess, Pippin, & Katharine took to the trails for the girls. The qualifier has t...
Skinnyski.com reports that “Nearly 1,000 skiers participated in the 2012 Pre-Birkie race from Lake Hayward to Hwy OO as a final tune up to the big Birkie race. Skiers reported a clean start (with the wind!) and reasonable fast and quite good trail conditions. In the 42K freestyle race, Santiago Ocariz topped (?) a tough mens [...]
Today was another baby step forward from yesterday. Yes one itty bitty baby of a step. But I nailed it! There are moments when you want to hop, skip, leap…. or run at an all out mad dash ahead. But it doesn’t work that way. There are times when you get so frustrated and angry [...]
I like a lot of variety in my ski routes, and so I don’t often do the same trips multiple times. But this was my third time doing the Curry Ridge Rider’s Tokositna Loop. It is such a great ski, its worth doing a few times. Rob, Bill, Kate, Chris and I are all [...]
Do you feel cheated? No? …Well you totally should! The pictures I posted earlier were actually… from last November! Oh the deception! I didn’t have my photos uploaded yet. But the guilt is gnashing at my poor little heart strings… So I’m hoping this little collection of [current] photos can act as a proper apology. [...]
I am now in park city after our team elected to skip Almaty, KAZ world cup in order to rest and gear up for the 5 week trip to end the season. I am glad to be back and happy to report that my last two week trip was a very successful trip. I was in Klingenthal, Germany first for a couple Continental Cu [...]
Stratton Mountain School has hired Gus Kaeding to coach an SMS Elite Team starting in the 2012-2013 race season. The program will include 6 senior skiers and up to 3 post graduate (age 17-19) skiers. Gus will join the Stratton staff th...
Over the past week we hosted five up and coming athletes from the Valley for a Flex Term week. It was really fun to work with this group who are bridging the gap from BKL to Junior Ski Racing. We did technique work, did two adventure skis, ...
Today I didn’t crush it. I did not destroy. Slay. Or triumph victoriously. Today I managed. I clung. I fought it out, and it wasn’t all that pretty. (and I’m not talking about the slobber and snot that manifested all over my face) Despite the fact that I openly acknowledged that I was here for [...]
Grafton Ponds is the place to race these days! Poppet, Liz, Helena, Alex, Mackenzie, & Russell spent the morning at Grafton for the BKL race and had lots of fun - great skiing by all SMS kids and friends. Koby, Pip, Katharine, Brooke, & Tess ...
So…once again I’m finding time to write about Craftsbury only when I’m not in Craftsbury…right now I’m in the Calgary Airport, en route to Canmore for some more IBU cup racing! But luckily for all of you blog-readers, I spent perhaps too much time when I was home for a week documenting the life of Mo, [...]
That’s how you say Madona. This little Latvian town was the site of some awesome Scando Cup races yesterday and the day before. If you’re not into too many words, please see my photo album from the trip so far.We arrived late at night on Sunday, ...
The Dartmouth Carnival race was moved to Trapps today and conditions were perfect! SMS skiers, Anika (pictured above), Isabelle P, Gino, Paddy and Skyler were able to race under the 6 person NENSA quota and it was a great experience.The college circuit...
A good chunk of the team spent the morning up at the mountain doing some L3 intervals. It was a picture perfect day and everyone skied well and worked hard. We ended practice with some skiing up in the terrain park - always a good time. :) Tyler and...
It has been a while since my last post, which I apologize to those people checking my blog regularly. I will try to do a better job the rest of the season.After Christmas I headed to Maine for Nationals. I was really excited for the obvious reasons but...