Crystal Mtn Hardware Haul!

The cold weather of Crystal Mountain did not hold back the Baldy Nancy Greene Team at the South Zone race today. Congratulations on all the great results. We had gold medals from Anya (F2000) and Daniel (M2001). Nils and Jack pulled off a silver each in the (M2000) and (M1999). In the E1 category, Baldy's "Blue" team placed third and included Adam, Avery, Yoland and Nicole. Many photos have been uploaded to google pics. Click on the thumbnails at the top of the page.

Baldy Training on the Weekend

It was a good weekend of trainng at Baldy. The E1s and E2s have a race coming up on January 31st and we're ripping up the K-level slalom course in fine fashion. The Ks split their time between GS on Saturday and Slalom on Sunday and are getting used to switching back and forth. The picture below is of Nils giving it everything in the GS course. Impressive!

We've been hoping for good support from the Es for the race at Crystal this coming weekend. This is their first attempt at holding a race and they deserve good representation from Baldy. Every year that we've hosting races the Crystal team has been coming. On that note there is also an optional race in the Kootenay Zone at Phoenix Mountain on February 13th. We've always had a good relationship with Phoenix over the years with the Baldy Cup races. We need to know ASAP who's attending the race this weekend an indication for the Phoenix race in February.
Also if anyone takes pictures at the Crystal race or training for that matter, please forward them on to Coach Warren for use in the blog

Sun Peaks K Giant Slalom

The K group had a great race weekend at Sun Peaks. There were two one-run GS races on Saturday and one two-run GS on Sunday. Not only were there Okanagan teams racing but there were teams from Prince George and Yukon making for stiff competition. Saturday in the first race we saw Jessica in 18th and Ella finishing 32nd after crashing. For the boys, Nicholas was 14th, Nathaniel 15th with Ben in 17th. In the afternoon we managed to get the second race in despite some lengthy delays. In this race Jessica was 20th, Ella was 21st, Nathaniel improved to 14th place, Nicholas was16th and Ben 19th.
On the second day we saw conditions drastically soften and the fog move in. Visibility was good enough to pull the race off but the times slowed considerably. Results were very good for Ella and Nathaniel who finished 12th and 11th. Both Jessica and Nicholas had chances to pull off top tens after the first run. Jess was in 10th and Nicholas 9th before Jess DNF'd on the second run and Nicholas fell back to 12th overall. Still very exciting performances by both racers. Ben pulled off a very respectable 17th and was the most consistent skier of the weekend.

K Racers at Sun Peaks E Racers Training at home

The Baldy K Racers are off to Sun Peaks for the 2nd race of the Okanagan Series. Ella, Jessica, Nicholas, Nathaniel and Ben have been training hard and are looking forward to a good fast race. The format is GS with two one run races on Saturday the 15th and a two run race on Sunday. The E1s and E2s are training at home with Coach Gary on Sunday. They're gearing up for the first race of the Nancy Greene Series taking place at Crystal Mountain in West Kelowna on January 30th.