Busy first week here at KMS.  A great start to the year with the orientation trip to North Creek; team building, rafting, ropes, good fun!

Now were into the first week of testing and training.  The boys are putting forth great effort and came back to school ready to work and increase their physical conditioning from summer.  Below they received some strength education and technique work from Jim St. Pierre, our new strength and conditioning coach.  Welcome Jim! 

And Oh yes, the KBR ride.  Many of the alpine guys rode the Kelly Brush ride on Saturday, Sept. 7th.  It was a awesome event and the weather could not have been more perfect for riding; little bit of sun, temps in the mid to high 60's, perfect cycling weather.
    (The Kelly Brush foundation supports trail safety, protection and supplies handicap equipment to skiers and riders.)

Training will be in full swing next week as we have only a three week block until were on snow again in Austria.

Ride on, train hard and Ski fast!

JB

 

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