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.