Today, we were greeted at Copper by quite the snow storm. The Vail Pass closed for a couple of hours shortly after our arrival due to road conditions. Even with the fresh snow on top, they were able to continue to be productive on their final day of free skiing before moving into lane space at Vail. We ended up cutting our day off at noon for fear that the Vail Pass would close again, leaving us stranded in Copper. We returned to Manor Vail around 1:00pm and the girls we given the afternoon off to do as they pleased without a structured dryland or stretch.
We have three girls who will be racing out here November 23rd through the 26th as they spent two weeks out here training late October. They spent the last two days training SL preparing for the races. Yesterday, they trained at Vail with three girls from Ski Club Vail and today they joined Stratton Mountain School at Copper for more SL training. They will be representing MMSC in a NJR series at Loveland, wish them luck!
Tomorrow, we will be staying at Vail and bringing our skills to lanes. We will start with some apex GS to continue with the progression of creating edge angle, and pressure, above the gate. It is always challenging the first day it is dictated to you where to turn, but I suspect they will all have success throughout the morning of training. However, it is being predicted that we will receive a possible 16 inches of snow, or more...in which case we will be powder skiing at Vail! Don't feel too badly for us...
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| Copper from the highway |
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| Top of the Vail Pass |
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| Training lanes at Vail |
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