Yesterday was a sunny, hot day and today was even hotter. However, when our coaches set up a course they spread salt to help set up the snow so we aren't skiing in slush all day. It's pretty cool. I wish I would've taken a picture of our course but when we were near it, I was skiing it. Instead, I got pictures of the impressive crowds.
It's close to 60F at 6:40 a.m. Little racers wearing speed suits, puffy jackets, and carrying giant packs was kind of comical. I'm glad I missed that kind of torture when I was a kid.
Unfortunately I arrived at the lift line before the lifties started loading people.
On the lift at last!
Well here we are at the lower mountain lift (Palmer Chair) with possibly the Canadian Team and a bunch of snowboarders were putting on some kind of charity event, maybe a benefit race.
Things started happening after this long line. Training today started slowly but we built on concepts we learned yesterday and all the ladies in my group showed more confidence and improvement. Our team leader, Linda, took two videos of us skiing the gates, which we watched at the end of the day (for us, that was around 1:30). I'm pleased to report that my video showed a "disciplined" upper body (Linda's words) and I could see both bottoms of my skis at the same time as I ran the gates the 2nd time. During the second run, a delay was added, which was a bit confusing but I got back on track. If I do this camp next year, which I hope to, I may not even remember the term "delay", except I'll know it when I see it.