Random GMR Dance Party

The Finishing Touch on June Camp

I'm a terrible blogger, but I'm trying to mend my ways. Here's a picture of the girls writing their self-evaluations on the last night of our camp. We had a lot of moisture today but worked on salting a lane with the Ontario team and got a couple hours of good freeskiing in despite the weather. And we got to ski with Jake Gougeon, Corey McConville, and Max McVey!

U16 Boys - Hike to Tamanawas Falls

 Rolf, Fredi, Christopher, Will, Chris, Matt, Shamus, Forest, Cole - in front: Ian, Andrew

FREEZING COLD WATER! One, two, three: all jump!

Smiling kids

Sunshine and smiles today at Hood

Many U14s: Coach Matt, Gray, Coach Corey, Ella, Ava, Maggie, Tatum, Julia, Raph, Patrick, Lili, Killian

Matt's group today: Killian

The view at 6:30am - with the "hood" for which Mt. Hood is known

Andrew, Rolf, Jack, Matt

Fredi, Christopher, Cole

Hi Viv! From the Hood Crew

More group shots from Hood today - we are all TIRED (especially those of us with little legs!) but we are pumped to squeeze in some more shredding before our flights home tomorrow and Wednesday AM. 

Back row: Patrick, Killian, Feef, Corey, Shamus, Forest, Sophie, Julia, Maggie, Christopher

Front row: Celeste, Charlie, Ella, Lili, Ava Lying down: Raphael, Gray and Jack

U16 boys requested a group shot! Matt, Chris, Will, Ian, Cole, Fredi

Alumni campers Kenny and Sandy. At the very moment of this photo Kenny is participating in a conference call...from his pocket. We are glad to have Burke alumni around to teach about the important of having work/life balance - when it's a bluebird day and you're at Mt Hood, GO SKIING!! 

Viv is at Math Camp! Anja S. Greer Math Science and Technology Conference at Phillips Exeter Academy

with teachers from Australia and Canada

 

Break time with Kevin from Tennessee. Chatting about the flipped classroom.

 

Learning about Geogebra from Doug.  Laura and Pam.

 

 Look what I made!

Cousins!

Spotted together, 2/3 of the Gougeon/Ross family skiing at Mt Hood today! Jake remains elusive...

Eve's group dominates Mt Hood

All photos courtesy of Eve Routhier, our guest coach extraordinaire. Eve is a former Canadian World Cup skier who recently retired and will be attending college in Quebec City in the fall. Her most recent claim to fame is as the featured athlete on SkiRacing.com's Facebook page! 

Kelsey, Bri, Parker, Lizzy, Gigi, Eve, McKenna, Megan, Tatum, Marta, Jennette

Kelsey, Jennette, Bri, Eve

About to drop into the cornice! We get tons of mileage by skiing out toward the Zigzag canyon - it's epic! 

Master-of-the-Universe pose

Bri, checking out the line...

Jennette, Bri, Kelsey and Parker hiking out of ZigZag canyon. 

Skiing the Cornice + Swimming at Trillium

 Skiing to nowhere (to the cornice, but it looks like nowhere!) 

 Group shot, with the cornice on the left, L to R: Fredi, Ian, Matt, Christopher, Gigi, Cole, Lizzy, Chris, Will, Forest 

Many other U16s and U14s did the cornice too. So FUN!!!

 Skiing the cornice - I can't remember who this is, and I can't tell... sorry!

 It was soooo steep when you were looking down it!

Mt Hood has such neat volcanic features - one of many canyons

 With the strong sun we need LOTS of sunscreen - Gigi

Everyone went for a walk around Trillium Lake, and some went swimming after - I was told the lake is cold.

Huzzah!

7 am scene at Timberline! 

And then the sun came out!

A happy hello from sunny Mt Hood! After two days of really amazing downpours, we have returned to full sun out here and couldn't be happier about it! Here are pics of the U16 and U14 girls that skied with Kirk and Tory today - we'll get pictures of the other groups soon! 

Holly, Parker, Kirk, Jennette, Mckenna, Tatum and Brianna

Sophie, Charlie, Ella, LiLi, and Julia

The SUN came out!

After such cold wet days, the sun was very welcomed today. It was actually pretty hot up there! We had a great day skiing.

Rainy Days at Hood

We've tried to stay busy these last two rainy days. We've done a bunch of video, core workouts, tuning clinics, and technique talks. We also went bowling this afternoon, which was super fun, and it brought out everyone's competitive side! Finally, the athletes have been playing a bunch of card games!

Sorry the quality of my photos is pretty poor - it's hard to get good photos in such dark spaces! Here's to the sun shining a lot in the coming week!

 Kirk showing video - (take note, don't worry, this is what NOT to do)

 Corey's ski talk

 Ex-World Cup Canadian skier Eve Routhier lead a core workout for the U16 girls. (The boys did one too.)

 Ava, Cleo, Charlie, Paige

 Gigi, Tatum, Maggie bowling

 The scene bowling

 Forest, Chris R, Shamus, Jack, Andrew

They got creative with how to play poker. Ritz for the stakes.

Scenes from Graduation 2014

The junior class took us all to Neverland on Friday evening

Dannica, Bridget, Sam, Madison, Max, Alli, Cole, Timmy, Nina, Jordan, Kalle, Corey, Jonny, Paul, Ryan and Patrick

Neverland...

Kalle and Jordan high five-the junior class (and their parents) did an amazing job transforming the dining hall and tent for the evening!

Corey, Sophie, Madison, Kalle, Bay and Isabel

Chris, Gray, Shamus, Ian, Madison, Chris, Fredi, Gigi, Forest and Preston

Audrey, Sophie, Moriah, Dani and Anna

Kalle and Max introduce Henry

Coach John Dwyer gave the commencement address

the staff helping John out with his speech

Some of the Burkie Ranger chorus belting it out

Nina and Chris graduate their sister Audrey

Sophie all smiles

the Laidlaw's give each other a high five as Harry graduates

Harry and Kirk

Madison graduates Anna

Congratulations to BMA's Class of 2014!
Drew, Fredrik, Audrey, Jake, Anna, Warren, Moriah, Harry, Dani, Henry, Sophie and Aleck

Many thanks to Steven Legge of Image North Photography for the wonderful photos!