Day Two

Skier Days: Sara(2), Caroline(2), Susan(0), Charles(0)

Up early for the second day in a row. Sara had a nice big hole in the bottom of one of her skis after snagging a rock on the way to download yesterday. She had a bunch to say after I picked her up last night. Sadly, one of the Gould HS kids had a freak crash and it looks like he may have broken his leg. Not for sure, but it did not sound too good. Sara managed to forget to raise her ski through the mid-station and got a bit of a bruise on the back of her calf herself. This early season skiing can be a bit rough. Mark and Jake are going to get the ski taken care of at Jack Frost sometime this week.

Everyone wrapped up early at the hill today. Susan and I walked over and picked Caroline who ended up going to a movie in Oxford with her pal Maddy. Susan picked her up in Oxford on the way back home. Caught up a bit with Meghan(one of our favorite ski coaches in the world and I may call her to catch a couple of runs during the week. Sara was off to do some dry land training with her team and then the lot of them were going to do some bonding by shopping as a group over in Conway.

She is really impressed with her teammates. They are all really strong skiers and she is definitely going to be challenged and pushed to keep up. This is all bodes really for a great season once we actually get some snow.

Susan and I did a lot of house work this morning and got the place all ship shape for the season. Got rid of some old clothing and cleaned a of junk out of the closets. It is nuts that you can accumulate stuff even in the ski condo.

For the second day in a row I actually got some exercise other than walk around at the base. Today I ran from the bottom of the North Peak Chair(6) up the access road and over to the bottom of Aurora. Very slow on the way out and very quick on the way back. 2.7 miles in a slow 29:30 seconds with 550 feet of elevation change.

Discovered Pandora yesterday, very nice to kick it off with a first song and then have it follow on that theme for hours. Great way to hear some new music...

Oh well, no pictures today so far... Susan left about an hour ago and I think I will bank some work hours so that I can maybe sneak in a couple of runs on Tuesday before we head home to Medford for Thanksgiving.