FIS Women Learning From the Best

The FIS Women's Mt. Hood camp is going well so far. We had very good conditions for the first 2 days of skiing thanks to 9 bags of salt yesterday, and 10 today. For a split second today I was wishing we'd thrown a full 15 bags instead, but right at that moment there was lightning in the distance and we hightailed it out of there in the oncoming rain. It was a wet walk back to the van, but we're back drying out in the Govy sunshine once again. I've seen lots of textbooks out, and even had a chance to jump in on some quadratic equation questions yesterday afternoon.

We're super luck to have Eve Routhier, a Canadian World Cup skier, along with us this camp. Eve brings a very up-to-date top end perspective to the group, and I'm really psyched to have her here to show the girls how it's done. Here's a photo of an on-hill discussion about lateral balance and edge control. More to come!

PS: check out Eve's blog and bone up on your French! http://routhierski.blogspot.com/

-Sam

Lateral balance/positioning has a huge impact on turn shape and edge control. Eve Routhier discusses the finer points. L-R: Liam Mulhern ('09, Midd.), Jordan, Alli, Anna (hidden), Moriah, Dani, Lexi, Eve, and Madison.