GMVS

MK skiing at the Dartmouth Carnival earlier this year. She was 5th in the 10 km OJ girls skate at Junior Nationals.Mary Kate Cirelli took home 5th place in the OJ Girls 10 km skate on Wednesday. She skied with the lead pack for the duration, and weathe...

I haven't gotten many details on the day, but congratulations go out to the whole team for qualifying, and to Hans for skiing through the heats and racing to 6th place in the country for OJ Boys! More details and hopefully photos to come!

Hans Halvorsen set the bar high with a 2nd place in qualifying. He was just under 1.5 seconds out of the win, and will look to ski some awesome heats this afternoon.Unofficial results are beaming in over the interwebs, and summit timing shows GMVS skie...

The week leading up to the final Eastern Cup race was one of the nicest of the year, with warm temperatures and nothing but sunshine every training session. We had some great skis out there with the gang, and I have some photos from the fun balance dri...

While the crew is all out in Utah, and Heidi is still overseas, I'm back in Waitsfield teaching classes and enjoying the late season snow that has finally arrived in the Valley. I don't have any pictures from out in Utah, but I fortunately have a few i...

Last night the GMVS crew flew out to Utah to get ready for Junior Nationals in Soldier Hollow, Utah. It was a special year for us because all of our skiers qualified for the event.  We'll miss Heidi who is racing in the next few weeks in Norway an...

We don't have any photos of the events in Estonia, but it would be ridiculous to let Heidi's races pass by unmentioned. Skiing for team USA in the J1 Scandinavian Cup competition, Heidi just wrapped up her third race in three consecutive days...

          It was an exciting final weekend of Eastern Cup racing for the Nordic Gumbies!After a weekend high pressure racing four of our skiers have qualified for Junior     Nationals, which will be held in ...

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...

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 ...

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, ...

Yesterday we had the annual Sweetheart Sprints race at GMVS! We were happy to welcome the skiers from the Harwood Middle School team up to GMVS and raced around a loop in the upper field. The track was fast and hard and we had some terrific racing, com...

Well we haven't had much snow at all, but there is plenty at Trapps for good skiing and the weather has been magnificent for several days. We didn't take much of a break after the weekend, and have gotten right back into training after a day off on Mon...

We had another great sunny day up at Trapps with some great results, once again led by Heidi and MK who skied high up in a very strong carnival field.New Jersey native Gracie led things off for us in the cold morning, bombing around the tough 5 km race...

We had a pretty great day out there at Trapps in the 5/10 km classic! The course got a bunch of new snow last night, and we were skiing in a lot more powder than expected. Justin rolled with it, and turned out some great skis on a very tricky day from ...

It was sunny and cold at Trapps, and believe it or not the snow is awesome! We tested some klister, previewed the course, and did some speed and technique work to get stoked!Fitzy cruising past the snow fencing: the venue is looking pro and it should b...