Wildcat - More Slalom Training

The dump of snow from yesterday was well groomed for fantastic snow quality today. It was a great opportunity for everyone to get some strong slalom free skiing under their belts. We quickly got a full length 60 gate slalom course up today with the selfless help of Jeff Ernsting and Ken Ettinger. We had to do two full slip runs to clear out the soft snow and get down to the ice. In the morning everyone got 4-5 runs in. Some solid skiing was being put down by the entire women's team. DR was skiing some of the best runs of his life and we are hoping that Mt. Cranmore will present some strong opportunities for him to push out.


We left the course up through lunch and did two slip runs (some people did three) to cut down the burms that developed on the course. All the runs in the afternoon were timed which provided for an excellent tete-a-tete between the top skiers from the men's and women's teams. We got some excellent video and spent a few hours in the afternoon reviewing slalom footage. The men's team will all be working on upper and lower body separation and early turn initiation tomorrow as we do back-to-back sessions of SL and GS in the morning and afternoon respectively. It is also possible that the Wildcat TV will be filming us for their weekly video segment!