Today was our third day of skiing in Silver Star. We heard there was snow up here so we took advantage of the fact that it is only a five hour drive from Winthrop and headed up to Canada. The snow in the Methow quickly melted last week after a rain storm came through and freezing levels rose pretty high. The skiing here is pretty good. The snow cover is thin, but plenty to ski on! There are very few people up here, so it has been great, we have the trails all to ourselves. We ran into a couple of athletes from the midwest, and the Canadian National team as well as some biathlon teams are supposed to show up today- so we will soon have more company.
Top of Silver Star Mountain
We spent the first couple of days adjusting to the altitude, skiing easy and working on our shift to snow technique. Today we had a good interval hard distance workout. Erik and Sam started at the bottom of the mountain and by the end of their hard 45 minutes made it all the way to the top of the mountain! It was tempting to just ski down the alpine runs to get back down- but the snow is not quite right for that. It was a beautiful day, perfect tracks, which made it hard to turn around and come back down after our hard skiing. We will spend the next four days getting in some more intensity, volume and enjoyable skiing! Here are some pictures from our interval workout today.
First race.... three weeks from tomorrow!
Training hard- resting well!
