Dear U12 and U10 Families,
Below is a reminder on this weekend’s schedule, plus details for Saskadena 6 for the U12s on Saturday. Please be sure you have registered your athlete – if you are ever unsure, click the link for the registration and take a look at the participant list on that page. If your athlete isn’t there, they aren’t registered.
All other info from my last email still stands, except it looks like the athlete meeting for the Quechee SL Camp may be moved up to 8:30 am for tomorrow. Just plan on 8:30 am and if it’s 8:40, you’ll be early. Again refer to the email sent 1/28 for all other details.
This weekend:
Friday 1/31: VARA U12 and U10 SL and Skills Project – optional (but VERY fun!) training day at Quechee – highly recommend this! More info below. Reg link is HERE. Deadline is Wednesday 1/29 at 5 pm. There is NO FRIDAY TRAINING at Okemo on this day due to coaches needing to support the camp. Details sent 1/28 in update #1.
Saturday 2/1: U12s race Tall Gate SL at Saskadena Six (link to register is HERE; deadline is Friday 1/31 at 9:30 am) – race day details below; U10s train Stubby SL
Sunday 2/2: U12s train GS, U10s train Stubby SL
Other fun events this weekend:
U10 Pizza Party at Off The Rails – Saturday February 1 from 4pm-6pm for some Aprés Ski Pizza and drinks! We’ll pre-order some pizzas and have a cash bar available. Please respond to our RSVP form so we can tell OTR how many we expect. U10 Team Parents are asking for a $20 donation per family. Cash at the event or venmo @snosin.
Cami and Chloe Blount’s Runs4Research Fundraiser – Saturday 2/1: Cami, OMS U18, and Chloe, OMS U16, Blount are hosting their annual fundraiser for cancer and type 1 diabetes research. Support them for taking some runs on Nastar from 10am – 2 pm and then joining the after race party at Calcutta’s from 5 – 8 pm – or simply donate in support. Learn more here: https://www.runs4research.org/
Saskadena 6 Race Day Details – 2/1:
Saskadena Six is a small ski area that is lots of fun and an easy place to race. You can watch the race without skiing. Their lodge is small though, so please be aware of this!
Coaches will pick up the bibs and tickets for our whole team. Athletes should meet coaches inside of the lodge at 8 am to get their bib and lift ticket and then be dressed and ready to ski and meet the coaches at 8:10 am outside of the lodge ready to load the lift. Inspection is from 8:15-9 am.
First run starts at 9:30 am. The course will be re-set and there will be a second run inspection – listen to coaches for timing. Second run will start shortly after inspection in reverse running order. There will be 30 minutes of untimed training runs after the completion of second run. Awards will be about 20-30 minutes after the completion of the race on the deck of the Ski Runners Clubhouse (on the opposite side of the lift from the lodge).
$75 parent lift ticket if you want to ski – can be purchased at the ticket window. Again, you don’t have to ski to see the race….in fact you can actually see it from inside the lodge :)!
Directions to Saskadena Six: From Ludlow, take RT 100 N. When you enter Plymouth, turn right onto Rt. 100A. When this dead ends at RT 4, take a right. Watch for cops when the speed limit drops in Bridgewater! Continue until you enter Woodstock – watch your speed here too. Just past the green, take a left onto RT 12. You will go over a little bridge and then bear right. After a mile or so, you will come to a fork in the road. Go right at the fork. (there are signs for Saskadena Six at this point) Go another few miles and you will come to Saskadena Six on the left hand side. OBEY SPEED LIMITS EVERYWHERE – lots of speed traps esp. in and around Woodstock. It takes about 50 minutes to get there from downtown Ludlow.
Thanks,
Mariel
