Henry and Fredrik at British Nationals

School is Still Happening!

Geometry students are focused on their test on circles on Friday morning.

Overall students have done a nice job staying engaged and should enjoy a break and return charged up for the sprint to the finish!

The Last Day in Utah

Lots of photos of our great last day. Skills Assessment, Free skiing, checking out the Great Salt Lake, and a sunset over Salt Lake City

 Fredi and Hunter Brayton (BBTS)

 The guys didn't want to smile so they showed their backs instead (L to R): Austin Michael Lilly (SMS), Tim Gavett (GMVS), Liam

 Free skiing Park City

 Olivia 3rd overall!

At the Great Salt Lake with SMS & GMVS kids: Austin Michael, Spencer Smith, Mikayla Lathrop, Hana Kasumi, Sophie, Izzy Nolan, Anna

 With coach Jamie Wylie (SMS)

 The Great Salt Lake

 Anna and Sophie - the lake and Wasatch Mtns behind

Rio Tinto Kennecott Copper Mine next to the Great Salt Lake - second largest copper mine producer in the US and the mine itself is the largest excavation of land on earth (unless the Pebble Mine in AK goes through - Chambo's 2013 ENV class!!)

http://www.kennecott.com/operation

A quick sunset hike up Red Butte

Sunset over SLC and the lake 

Sophie tells us these are her favorite type of trees - the ones that have the bunches at the tops

Looking south down the Wasatch Front

 Overlooking the city

Sunset & Rain clouds

The East Comes Through in the Parallel Slalom at U16 Nationals

Today we finally raced the Parallel Slalom and it was a fun, chaotic event. Here are some photos from the day. 

Liam, Anna Foley (BBTS), Ava Mattson (KMS), Sophie, Anna, Olivia

Anna on the red course

Liam on the red course - he got 4th on the day! I think he raced 11 times (maybe more?!)

It's kind of hard to tell, but this is one of the ruts by the end of the race - the edge of the rut is about as high as my waist. And my skis are sticking up out of the trough.

Team East pride - 2000 Girls - Abi Jewett (GMVS) 2nd, Tatum Coutu (BBTS) 3rd

More strong skiing from eastern girls -1999s - Mikayla Lathrop (SMS) 1st, Hannah Utter (GMVS) 2nd

(Yes, I am related to Mikayla - she's my cousin.) :)

1998 girls - Cecily Decker (NYSEF) 1st, Storm Klomhaus (USTA) 2nd, and our Olivia 3rd!!!

A Visit to the Center of Excellence

ALl the U16s got a tour of the COE, which is a pretty impressive place. They also heard from the USST Sports Science guys, and had a Q&A with US Ski Team coaches.

U16 Team East outside the COE

Not April Fools - just April 1!

Hard to believe these are the conditions here at Burke on April 1st. We are SO happy to finally see some spring-like temps (or maybe that's just me?!) but the plus side is certainly very evident: having mid-winter conditions here in the first week of April is pretty unbelievable!! 

U16 Nationals - Parallel Slalom Postponed

We tried to pull off today's race, but the conditions were deemed too unsafe. We will try again tomorrow.

Dumping wet snow at Park City Mountain Resort

Anna slipping - notice the piles of  sugar snow with which we were dealing.