Math in the Snow

While attending the Seven Nations Cup in Europe, Chip Knight sent us this picture of Patrick Coughlin doing math in the snow with his ski pole. Here’s Pat’s side of the story:

“As we were waiting around for the nine o’clock lift in Berchtesgaden, Germany one of the coaches took out his range finder. All the guys outside were guessing the distances of different objects around the ski area. I took the rangefinder and shot the distance of the top of one tree. Then shot the bottom of the tree. One coach proceeded to ask me what the height of the tree was. I knew I could use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the height. I had the length of C to the top of the tree and A to the base of the tree and had to find B, the height of tree. I calculated the height of the tree to be 31 meters.”

Vermont Cup Finals at Burke 2-12-17

We hosted the VARA Vermont Cup GS Finals this past weekend and were able to squeeze both runs in before the big snowstorm really got started.  Burkies once again had some great results and lots of fun!

Congratulations to Lili on her win!

Congratulations to Raph and Gray who came in 1st and 2nd!

VARA U16 State Super G Championship

MMSC hosted the VARA U16 State Super G Championships at Stowe yesterday morning followed by a VARA Super G in the afternoon.  Burkies had strong finishes in both races! 

Alumni Patrick and Christian Gallagher foreran

Aidan had just finished her run and Bella, Kennedy and Lili were there to greet her

Gray, Ollie, Kennedy, Maggie and Raph

Dan, Gray, Reed and Ollie

Reed, Killian, Callum and Ollie

State Championship awards: Maggie 5th, Lili 6th and Charlotte 7th

Men's State Championship awards: Raph 1st, Gray 3rd and Reed 6th

 They only gave podium awards for the VARA races in the afternoon but the men had four in the top ten (1. Raph, 4. Reed 5. Gray 7. Ollie) and the women had three (4. Aidan 6. Lili 9. Maggie)

Raph won the afternoon super G too!