Although it's 70* as I write this, winter has returned! We had a long cold snap of five or so days where it never got above freezing so the ski areas were making lots of snow. Whitney has been to several practices and it appears to be a small team this year. The good thing about a small group is the nights where it's just her and one other so they can focus on boarder cross skills, which they were able to do last week.
Sunday she went to her first competition of the season down at Wintergreen. It's a rather spread out resort and you start at the top of the mountain and ski down. The resort itself was pretty nice and the course was pretty good. There were only 30 or so people registered and most of them were in the younger age groups. There was only one other girl in Whitney's age group, five or six boys in the next younger age group, three in the 21-24 age group, and the rest were probably 10 and under (maybe 12, but pretty young).
They start with the warm up runs and unfortunately Whitney was only able to get in two runs. I think she would have done better with a couple more. The race is run youngest to oldest age groups, snowboarders first, so she had to wait through all the young kids. She did pretty well for her first time out this season and felt she did better than she did last year.
There's two races this weekend at Wisp. We'll be heading out Friday night since they start early on Saturday morning. Winter is coming back tomorrow and it'll be in the low 40s Friday and Saturday so that should make for some good snowboarding. Good luck, Whitney!
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