Well, another weird week in the ski season. We have been missing snow time every week lately because of the lack of snow. Please try to prioritize getting to practice and getting on snow as much as you can in the next month. We have 3 weeks of regular meets, then we get into conference/JV conference week, then sections week, then hopefully we have some folks at the state meet the following week. We will practice for everyone that can make it all the way until the state meet because we can use the practice for this year and for next year. It is also so fun to continue to hang out with the team and the wonderful skiers we are blessed to have on it. Here are a couple quick things for this week.
1. Weight room is open Wednesday and most likely Saturday. We only have about 2.5 weeks of lifting left so make sure to utilize them.
2. Wax room will be open on Monday. If you haven’t waxed recently, you need to get some wax in your skis.
3. The practice schedule us set for the week and is very similar to what I expect the next few weeks to look like.
4. Practices will consist more of skiing workouts with small groups and less direct instruction on skiing in the next month. These are incredibly important practices because you need time to apply all of the things we have told you over the past couple months.
5. The meet this week could be skate or it could be a classic sprint race. We are still working to figure out what that will look like, but there is a possibility you will need a partner to ski with so try to plan ahead on that and find one that is similar in speed to you.
6. We are also planning to do pictures next Tuesday so put that on your schedule. That would be right after school because I am assuming we will have night practice of some kind that day.
7. The Mora trip – we are planning to go but we might need to switch to Monday the 15th instead of Saturday the 13th. I am sorry for the late notice and change but we are trying to make sure we can fit it in and finding good snow is a little tricky right now. We should have an answer tomorrow and we will send out a sign up and payment update as soon as we know more. Either day we do it, we will adjust the time frame. We will likely not leave quite as early and we will be back by dinner time instead if 8:00 at night. Thanks for being flexible.

Giff
Gifford@district279.org