November 21, Panorama, British Columbia. We just finished our 4th day on snow in Panorama. Our first day here the snow was incredible, bullet proof and super grippy perfect for breaking in new skis and getting balanced on the skis after being off for 7 weeks. The time off was well spent in the gym and healing our bodies for the up and coming season, lots of massages, stretching and rest over the past 7 weeks on top of all the training made for a perfect prep block for our long camp in Pano, along with the NORAM's at the end of it.
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| This years fleet! |
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| Packing for Pano |
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| The view on our drive from Calgary to Panorama |
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| Top Of Old Time the small opening in the trees on the left is the entrance to Hay Fever |
This year in Pano is probably the hottest year I have seen here in the past 4 years ive been here, I still have yet to break out my big jacket. Because of the hot temperatures they have only been able to open up 2 runs so far, Hay Fever and Show Off. Show Off is the run right underneath the chair with some fairly simple terrain, its got a small pitch right off the start that goes onto a flat which than gets slightly steeper once it straightens out, and than has a couple rolls along the way. Hay Fever is completly the opposite, you go threw a small cat track threw the wood's which then opens up to a gradual pitch that slowly gets steeper as you go down and than completly drops over into a steep decently long pitch and than flattens out after about 20 or so gates onto a long flat, my favorite SL run.
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| Top Of Hay Fever |
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| Hay Fever, looks flat... Its not |
The snow making crews have been out and in sight on the mountain the past two days looking like they are going to get ready to blow snow as soon as it gets cold, and from what I hear they are going to hopefully start tonight and continue blowing for 36 hours straight, which will get Old Timer open, a great GS and Super G training run.
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| Always check your dins on new binding before you start skiing |
As you've probably figured out the weather has been up and down for the past 4 days, our first day was clear skies warm and perfect snow, the next day was overcast still warm but softer snow. Yesterday the worst so far it was warm super soft snow and mixed between rain and snow threw out the day, needless to say we got wet. If you look at the positive side of things it was kind of cool as you went up the chair and the temperature got colder as you went higher the rain turned into thick big snow flakes, kind of cool.
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| Its snowing, or is it raining either way nice view! |
Today, was a great day snow was excellent on Show Off and the weather was co-operating until now, its started snowing again, which isnt bad because 1. we are off the mountain and staying warm and 2. if its snowing it must mean its almost cold enough to blow snow.
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| Show Off on the left and the chair lift we take every day! |
We started out the camp with a block of free skiing and a few stubbies, and than going right into a second block of full gate SL training in a fairly simple course, and than been in full gate courses getting longer and trickier over the past 4 days and than today with a full length SL course with some timing to see where everyone was at. Tomorrow we are going into GS for the next days and than taking a day off before our next block of the camp. The camp has definitly started off on the right foot for everyone I'm pretty sure but definitly for me, some of the big changes we were working on in Chile have really happened the past few days and we are just working out some kinks to make my skiing even better. Hopefully my GS will do the same!
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| Cheers |
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