More powder day fun.

jb

Thursday Aug. 8 2013

Powder Day in LaParva, need I say more!  Enjoy!

jb

Snowstorm today in LaParva.  We are on hold until 9am.  Looks to be a powder day!

A few more pictures from SG. 

Ski Fast!
jb

Here are some more pictures from our SG training on El Decenso.

  jb

Busy day off.  The older boys trained full length SG in the am.  Then we went down to Santiago in the afternoon.  We visited the government center, seeing the president's palace, congressional buildings and a beautiful cathedral.  Checked out some shops, early dinner at a outdoor market place, then headed back up to LaParva.  It was a good afternoon to get out of the mountains as it was pleasant and warm down in the city. 

Today everyone will be on the full length SG plan.  Some pictures from our day.

jb 

Sunday was the younger crews first real crack at SG.  It was only a 11 turn section on the top of Decenso but was challenging enough for their first day in a course with their long skis. 
The mountain manager here treats us very well, as they are a ski racing family and his youngest son goes to Dartmouth and skis for Peter Dodge.  When the snow allows they make jumps for us on the DH/SG track so the kids can get some airtime and we can work on the fundamentals of jumping. 
The cat driver made us a nice one this year, actually so nice that he had to do some cutting down and reshaping last night.  So I am looking forward how it came out when we go out today with the older guys.

The younger guys get to recharge their batteries today with a morning sleep in and a afternoon trip to Santiago.  Then we go back to SG early Tuesday morning to try to get another session in (more full length) before the expected snow flies on Wednesday.  Yes, snow, the kids might just get the best of everything this trip, we'll see.

JB 

The past two days have been busy in LaParva.  The second group arrived yesterday. (Friday's are always a busy day since it is the day that all the condos switch over.)

Yesterday was a early, long day on a tougher hill so the kids eyes were wide open!  But all in all, they rose to the challenge and did a good job.
Today, we went back to easy rhythm GS apex and saw some good improvements. 
The afternoon we took advantage of training 2 runs and free skiing on the bottom of the downhill trail that we will be training SG on in a few days.

Tomorrow we go to "flight school".  The jump will be built tonight and we get first crack at it tomorrow to work on a jump progression for Tuesday's sg training session.

Monday, our second day off, then one more 4 day block before flying.

pictures in the morning!

jb     

Another great day of training down here in LaParva.  We had Tortolas practically to ourselves again today.  We opened up the distance today so the kids could let it roll a little more and they made great progress.  Check out some pictures. 
Tomorrow we will continue with GS and then get on our long skis for a few free ski runs before coming in for lunch. 
Long skis means the speed track is getting ready and SG training is just around the corner.

And our English lesson for today!

JB