Back again, we are now in Valle Nevado, a 30-40 min car ride or a 10 second hike from the top of one mountain to the other.  We arrived two days ago in Valle Nevado, the weather is great and the conditions are great on the runs but to get to the run can become quite tricky depending on what part of the mountain we are on.  Our GS block is now over and we have started a 5 day SL block here in Valle with one last day of GS on our last day. 

View from our room in the hotel

Day 1 of SL we were in full gate SL courses but for small sections one of which was quite off set but 13-14m and the other was more of a normal SL course we would tend to see.  Day 2, so today we were on a run called Fox Trot its a gradual pitch at the top and than a long flat with two decent rollers half way down.

Fox Trot is the run straight ahead to the left of the run on the right

On our first day of skiing in Valle we were on the hill loading the chairs at just before or at 7am... the sun wasn't even up yet.  We ski probably an hour to and hour and a half more here than we did in El Colorado and can get alot of runs in, in the day because of such a fast turn around.  Today the team did about 900SL gates give or take a few.   I unfortunately could not get that many runs in for a mixture of reasons, one being the soreness of my feet from the bone spurs pushing up against the shell but the foremost reason is once again my hip.  Yesterday on the second last run of the day I caught my tip on a SL gate and twisted my hip which brought it to and past the range of motion where the pain begins.  It has been sore all yesterday and all today as well, lots of ice and stretching will hopefully help bring down the pain in it so I can ski more runs tomorrow. Today I think I got in about 5 or 6 runs in the course before the last run I did jerked my hip into an uncomfortable position and had to call it a day.   On the bright side I got to tan a little bit while sitting on my balcony watching everyone else ski while icing my hip.

Skiing at 7am

Icing the hip while watching the team ski

One of the best things about Valle Nevado is the nightly sun sets!! even though they are all the same view, which is coming out over El colorado its some of the best sun sets I've ever seen. 

Sun set over El Colorado from Valle Nevado

Sun Rise looking over the mountain

Sun Set View from the common area

Sun Rise over El Colorado

Tomorrow we are back on Fox Trot with nice and sharp skis, as needed, and looking to get as many runs or more tomorrow.  The snow here in Valle is very very slick and our skis dull very easily if we don't bring a diamond stone, file guide and file on the hill with us every day. 

Warming up while the sun is getting up

There really isn't much else to talk about for now besides the skiing and taking care of injurys there isn't really anything to do here.

Until next time.

Watching the team ski from the balcony