A season ends

Ski season is pretty much over. There are a few alpine resorts still open and I'm sure we'll be tele-skiing up on Mount Washington for some time, but for the most part the skis will be soon put away and cycling will be the primary focus. But before you put the skis away for the summer don't forget their summer coat of storage wax!


Speaking of Nordic skiing, one of the sports biggest supporters here in the Mount Washington Valley passed away on Friday, Steve Eastman. Steve was the founder of the Mountain Ear and always gave Nordic a great plug. He was a personal friend and mentor and will be greatly missed. My thoughts go out to his family.

Blisters

I've been off my skis now for over a week due to an epic blister that I got over a week ago. I hate to do this to you, but here is the blister the day I got it:



And then here is is a week later (a week in which I didn't wear shoes- just crocs or birks and lots of neosporin):

Ok now that that is over, the skiing I head is fantastic, and I plan on getting out again soon! This blister should be skiable by the weekend- or at least that's what I keep telling myself!

Have fun out there.

Wild Winter

I just got done salting our road, now I'm trying to decide- go for a ski or grab the bike? 40 degrees- hmmm may not get this again for awhile- I think the bike wins!

Onto other news- any local HS or college racer (MWV resident) that wants to ski the TD Banknorth WM Classic 30k on the 26th let me know. The MWNC has some FREE entries! Drop me a line and I'll get you the details.

later.

Tour de Ski

I think this is such a cool concept. I sent Howie and email up at GGTOC about doing somehting like this here in the MWV- I think it could be pretty cool.

Also on the TDS site my hero Vergard Ulvang has a blog- check it out.

Snow

I've been slacking on the posts as there has been so much snow that all I've been doing is skiing! It's been great, out the back door, at Whitaker, at GGTOC, skinning up Cranmore- it's been amazing.

I'm trying to get myself to realize that I need to maximize this winter as you don't know when you're going to get another one like it. So I've come up with a list of to do's:

1) ski WVT soon, and ideally start at GGTOC
2) ski to work
3) White Mountain 30K- ski faster then slow (does that make sense?)
4) teach big E to skate ski
5) ski the spine from Cranmore to Redstone

so there is my quick list- anyone want to pick any of those off with me?

Now get out and ski.