Posted by Caitlin Curran-

This past weekend those of us who were around traveled to Jackson, NH for racing and of course some quality spa time.  On Friday, after a picturesque ski at Bretton Woods we spent the afternoon at the Mount Washington Hotel Spa.  Thanks to Coach Weave’s awesome connections we discovered that our Nordic trail passes gave us access to the Hotel Spa.  Spending time in the spa was a refreshing and relaxing change from most ski trips.  It also served as an educational experience for Fritz, as he added the word “concierge” to his vocabulary.

Posted by Mary Stewart

Salut! We brought in the New Year with a great trip up to Quebec for the Canadian NorAm races in Val Cartier. Our journey started off on the right track with the help of our new GPS friend “Tiff,” whose genius for navigating the highways and byways led us through Quebec City with ease.

This ski was just getting fast…

Catamounts were competing on either end of the country today in Junior Olympic qualifying races.  In Northern Maine Newt, Pete, and Mary qualified for the heats in the Eastern Cup opener.  Pete skied a good heat improving on his personal best.  He drew a tough heat with three Middlebury skiers controlling the heat.  He skied well but some tactical skiing by Graham Egan left him a few inches short of having a shot at the Semi-finals.  In the fourth heat Newt got off to a great start hitting the first down hill in the lead, unfortunately an aggressive line and some ice left him on the ground with a ski broken almost in half!  He gamely finished the heat on one of Pete’s skis.

Up north Caitlin P and Amy were getting started at the first Besh Cup weekend with another Skate sprint.

The vans are back where they belong….surrounded by snow and filled with smiling skiers.

Finals are coming and there isn’t any groomed skiing to be had so we hiked up on Mansfield to see what we could find.  An hour later we had found some pretty good skiing.  There is snow in the forecast the next few nights, with any luck we’ll be skiing on the good stuff by Wednesday, till then enjoy these shots from Sunday courtesy of Caitlin, Mary, and I.  There are more pictures on Flickr.

After a couple of days of cold temps and snow Mother Nature hit the reset button again.  In response we held the first ever Chester Arthur Memorial Pursuit in Fairfield, VT this past Saturday.  Not real popular in Utah Chester Arthur (the 21st President) signed the Edmunds Act which banned bigamists and polygamists from voting or holding office.  More about Chester A Arthur here.  Thanks to Cole for a few shots from the pace workout.

At long last we got a nice first day on snow today.  Bolton got a good dump in the last storm and the cold temps the last few days have helped it set up.  The fields are fun and the trails are an adventure!

Thumbs up!

What is this white stuff?

Skiers circling the fields…

Jo with the setting sun in the background…

With Mother Nature throwing us a bit of a curveball we ended up in our fourth new location in my four years of Fall camps.  This year’s dream vacation spot….  Stowe, VT.  We had a great weekend with a good mixture of hard stuff, speed, strength, and distance.  There is snow in the forecast and a crusty base up at Bolton so we should get some skiing in this week.  Everyone has been training really well so when the snow does come we will be ready to rock…  until then here are a few shots from camp.  The athletics website has a Flickr site where more pictures and higher quality images will be uploaded.  Below is a link to the UVM Flickr site as well as some pictures on a  Middlebury Flickr site from a time trial we did with them earlier in the fall.

UVM Athletics on Flickr… (UVM Skiing)

Photos from Brandon Gap time trial…

Thanksgiving

We are ready for snow!

It’s been a great fall.  Between the alpine and nordic teams we welcomed 10 new faces in September.  We graduated a few people that will be hard to replace last spring but the newcomers have brought some great energy and we can’t wait for winter!