It was another great week with all of you! It is great spending time with all of you and enjoying time on snow with the best group around. Lets really try to enjoy these last weeks of the season and enjoy time together. They are going to be exciting and we have a lot to look forward to. So let’s dig in, ski fast, and enjoy time together.
We have 2 weeks until conference, JV conference, then sections and state. We have a lot to figure out between now and then, but we are looking forward to a great end of the season. We are going to try to figure out the best places that we can put you all so that you have the best chance at success. Here are a few things to look forward to this week:

0.* No ski trip this coming Saturday. We were hoping to have a second a ski trip, but everywhere that has snow is well over 2 Horus away only has small manmade loops (6k Max.) Maybe you can grab some friends and head to Hyland or Theodore Wirth for some different scenery and enjoy a different place and preview either the conference or section meet course.
1. Bowling Night! We NEED your help. This is our biggest fundraiser and it is simple. We just need to bowl! We have to fill these slots and it will take a large portion of you to get it done. Please take a look. The sign ups are in the events tab! With the ski trips being such a bust this year (no snow), this could be our best chance at some team building and fun together. We just spent the day at Mesabi with many of our athletes and families and it was a blast! This community is so amazing and this should be a really fun event to hang out and bowl together.
2. We have a normal classic meet on Wednesday. We will be told the course likely Monday but it will likely be the bypass.
3. we will classic as much as we can this week, so please keep that in mind as you plan.
4.* Picture day is scheduled for 1/22. We will do pictures right after school, then practice later. If temps are too low or we get afternoon practice, we will shift to another day.
4. Wax room will be open on Thursday before practice
5. The weight room will be open wednesday and saturday. We only have 2 wednesdays and 2 saturdays left for lifting.
6.** varsity skiers, start having a plan for not having your race skis for the weekend before the conference meet. Ideally, we would take your skis for the weekend and you would need to ski on another pair for Saturday or sunday. They can be a friends, an old pair or if need be, the coaches could probably get you a pair of rentals or something. Just start trying to plan ahead a little.

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