So back to whats going on, it is now the beginning of the 2012/2013 ski season this is our first and definitely not our last pre season camp. We flew in from Ottawa on wednesday and have now had 2 days of skiing, can't say they have been the best days but can't say they are the worst. Than again if you look at what our goal for the camp is they have been two very successful days! We arrived pretty late wednesday night tho arriving at our condos around 11pm local time, thursday everyone was a little tired to say the least.
The goal of the camp this year as it is every year is to work on our technical foundation to be stronger technically and to have a strong foundation to build off of and go faster every day we are on snow. This is the best time of year to work on such things, how ever it gets kind of boring sometimes, because for one we do a lot ( and i mean a lot) of slow skiing like we might as well just snowplow at the speed we are going. Though by skiing very slowly and attentive to detail we are becoming more fundamentally sound and much stronger skiers. Needless to say the last two days have been very slow... we have maybe done 2 runs where we got to link a few carved turns together but besides that its been skidded turns and working on body position and lower joints.
Yesterday being our first day, we got a late start to the day by leaving our condos at 7am and being on the hill by around 7:20 7:30 or so, pretty late eh? hahah! It was a beautiful sunny day yesterday super warm and great snow conditions we skied the whole day on the upper portion of the mountain stoping briefly for a 30min break and than right back at the slow low performance skiing. We left the mountain at around 12/12:30 yesterday got home ate lunch and than right into a dry land to flush out our legs and stretch out our sore muscles from the first day of skiing again this season. And of course we had to play multiple games of cage before we could call it a day for physical activity!
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| Top of lane 17 located at 2821m looking out over Oregon |
Today, on the other hand was practically polar opposite of yesterday with poor visibility and slight rain. Our lane is number 17 located just of the top chair life at 2821m in altitude its a constant fairly steep pitch that works great for the drills we are doing, only problem is while skiing in the clouds today we couldn't really get a lot of feedback since you could see about turns and than disappear into the cloud. Its a pretty fun experience to ski in the clouds, I can't say this has been the first time i have done it but i can say today was the most runs i have done consecutively in the clouds. A feeling that occurred almost everyone run today tho was vertigo because you could barely see 20 feet in front of you and the lighting was completely flat you couldn't really tell where you were going so you would just have to keep tight to the rope beside you but even than i got a little dizzy trying to find my way down the hill! With all the poor weather we still were able to ski just over 4.5km total today which for a day of technical drills isn't too bad.
So thats all for today ill post another blog later on in the camp and maybe we will have a video blog in the making to be posted later on in the weeks to come! But for now Happy Canada Day!!! Every one better party hard and have a great long weekend!!!!!
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