Race Season is *Just* Around the Corner

It's almost December and that means that race season is just around the corner. Season passes (yes, plural) are bought and the ski resorts up north are open. Whitney has been on the slopes once already. A friend of hers from Virginia was at Sunday River for a camp with the Gould Academy and Whitney went over to meet him for a day of riding and dinner. The team hasn't started on slope practices yet and I'm not sure they will before the end of the semester. They don't have snow yet at Titcomb, where they practice during the week and there's only a week and a half of classes left before finals.

Sunday River fun

She's got season passes for both Sugarloaf (which is also good at Sunday River) and Massanutten. She'll need the Sugarloaf one for practice and some races. She'll be home long enough over Christmas to get good use out of her Massanutten one and she's also racing down here twice. All the schedules are out and she's working on her plans but she's going to race GS at Massanutten in early January while she's home, then she'll fly home in February to race BX. She hasn't let me know her other race dates yet so I haven't made any travel plans but I'm hoping to get up to see her race a couple of times as well as going to both Nationals races.

The best news, so far, is that her new snowboard came in just in time for her birthday. She was super excited about it and it looks awesome. The board is so her - her favorite color is represented well, her home state prominent in the design and her home mountain and summer home are marked. Now she just needs that new pair of bindings and she'll be good to ride. Her board was sent home and she left it here when she went back to school; she said she wasn't going to have much time to ride plus she's got two boards at school. She's going to run out of room soon in her dorm room!

her new board