The Countdown Begins

Right now we're just about at T-12 hours until we leave the house for Copper Mountain and Nationals. Yep, we're leaving at 4am. Sigh. Way too early in the morning. On the other hand, we'll get to Denver at 8:30 and should be at Copper by noon.

We're in the middle of packing, making sure reservations for the condo and shuttle are in order, checking the snowboard and making sure all the snowboard gear is ready to go. And trying to finish up school.

Copper is having an amazing winter, they've had over 300" of snow so far, they had 5" of snow this morning and are expected to get more tomorrow. Should be awesome conditions out there. Hopefully we'll have some sunny days with bluebird skies to enjoy as well as some snow (just not on competition days).

Some pictures from last year --

Start of the course last year

Glow on the mountains behind Copper village

The mountains our last morning