I always have mixed feelings about our trip to Colorado. On the one hand, it's Colorado, it's beautiful. It's the culmination of all of Whitney's hard work for the season, the high point of the year. On the other, it means the end of winter and the snowboarding season. But when I get back from Colorado I'm ready for winter to be over, for spring to come, and the warm weather to move in (hammock weather is the best!). I do enjoy our trips to Colorado, I just wish Bob was able to come with us.
Whitney is flying home tomorrow night then we head west on Sunday. She's got a couple of NorAm/Hole Shot races the first part of the week at Ski Cooper then we head to Copper (yes, it's very confusing) for USASA Nationals. That will be fun. She'll get to see a bunch of her Massanutten friends and hand out with them, we'll see some Appalachian Series friends. USASA Nationals is always a fun time with the parade, vendors over the weekend, friends, racing. Now that she's racing open class you never know who will be up in the start corral with her. One year Alex Deibold was there racing and there's been other "big" names there.
The races at Ski Cooper will be interesting. I saw a Hole Shot post last night on Facebook saying that the course build was coming along but because of the snow conditions it would be more of a sprint race. Whitney has never done one of those but I don't think that's a big deal, she's usually pretty fast when she's riding with other racers. USASA posted a graphic of the design for their course and it looks good. The two ski resorts are only about 45 minutes apart so it's interesting that Ski Cooper is having snow issues. The races there were postponed from January when they didn't have enough snow; I'm just glad they're going off now.
Time to start thinking about packing, buying snacks for Whitney (and the boys). All the reservations are made, we've got coaching lined up, so I think she's good to go.
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