Announcements
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Sundown Pizza Party
Wijara Sundown is 1/21 & 1/22. We will have our pizza party with tuning and waxing and video review at the Best Western Saturday Night at 6pm or soon thereafter based on racing and awards at the hill. Even if you are not staying at the Best Western, you are welcome. We have the room from 5pm-11pm with a tuning clinic and video review from racing that day. $10 per head for apps, pizza, soft drinks, salad and dessert. You can either pay Lara Berry (Paul and Charlie) via Venmo or bring cash on Saturday. Venmo is @Lara(DASH)Berry(DASH)3 with code below. Please RSVP on the Team Snap app. New racers…
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Clarification on training schedule
The base program meets on Sat and Sun only. This training is essential and is where we run with a full coaching staff and do necessary drills, skills, progressions and direct and specific coaching at the athlete’s skill level. Weekday add-on training is an additional advanced gate training meant to complement the base program work. Weeknights have a limited coaching staff on limited terrain and aimed at more advanced and more committed racers. There is no combi / build your own race program offered. The base program is not a pick-any-two-days program. It is Saturdays and Sundays as weather and conditions permits. It would be a disservice to the developing…
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Chestnut Race Reminders
Inspection Only registered racers and race officials are allowed inside the race arena at any time. Racers must inspect with their coaches. There is no parallel skiing allowed during inspection. You must SLIP. They may ask us to inspect from the outside only. Do not touch a gate during inspection. Do not cross the finish line during inspection. All registered names appear on the start list regardless of whether racer is actually in attendance. So if you are 15th in U14 girls, and 10 of the girls before you are absent, you will actually run 5th. They will call numbers and skip missing racers. If you don’t have your bib,…
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Parent meet-up Friday 1/6
We will have a few tables reserved in The Summit Food & Spirit near the bar at Chestnut Mountain Resort 6:30PM – 9PM for a parents meet and greet. Racer bibs and lift tickets will be available for pickup.
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Sharpen skis before Chestnut race
Reminder to sharpen those skis before our first race! Here are two videos that will give you some guidance. I will bring my tuning gear to Sundown for a little tuning demo session at the pizza party. I’m not tuning your skis tho – that’s your job -Coach Steve
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Welcome to the 2023 WIJARA season!
The preliminary start order for the Chestnut Mountain race has been posted to the WIJARA website: https://wijara.wildapricot.org/page-18079 Please verify your racer’s information – bib number and age group – are correct. If there are any issues with your racer’s information, please contact me as soon as possible. The final start order will be sent out Wednesday evening. We are in need of parent volunteers to gatekeep this weekend. Please use this link: Gatekeeper Sign Up to sign up. All gatekeepers will need to attend a brief meeting at 8 am in the morning on the day you are scheduled to volunteer. PURCHASE LIFT TICKETS TO CHESTNUT ASAP Cyndy BenesWIJARA…
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Great week of Race Camp!
Great week of Race Camp with some pretty good snow even today. We are still scheduled for T/W/Th January 3/4/5. 9am for week 2 of Camp beginning with SL Tuesday. However! Weather is not looking good. We will announce any changes on Monday. However (again) the weather at Chestnut for the race next weekend looks perfect. At this point, and since many are still on winter break, and especially if we don’t get many/any more days in at home, coaches are recommending you try and arrive early at Chestnut and take several runs on your GS skis Fri night if parents and schedules allow. This is totally on your own…
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Lift Tickets for Chestnut race
Lift Tickets PURCHASE LIFT TICKETS ASAP. All racer and family tickets are considered general public tickets and must be purchased using the following link https://chestnutmtn.secure-cdn.na2.accessoticketing.com/embed/store.php?merchant_id=100103&emerchant_id=100101 Username: (please contact coaches or other parents for this username) Password: (please contact coaches or other parents for this password) A discounted Two-Day Ticket is $100 and only available through the link above. Discounted tickets will not be available after 9am on January 7, 2023. Full price tickets will be available after 9am. A One Day ticket may be purchased online for $65 or at the Ticket Window for $70 either day. If you are interested in skiing 4 PM to 10 PM Friday night, tickets…
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Travel Racing
As a reminder, all team members are required to travel to and compete in 2 race weekends per season after the first season on the team. We have 80 racers registered for WIJARA and one for USSA only. The remaining rostered racers are new or need to register for races. We will be sending out the preliminary start list for Chestnut (WIJARA) this weekend with final start orders going out on Wednesday 1/4. If you are planning to race WIJARA this season, please register in the next 48 hours. After that time we will send individual emails to racers who are not racing this season to understand your intent. Great…
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Safety Gear
Team, Over the past few days/weeks, we have had a number of questions regarding helmets and safety equipment: Helmets Due to the increased speed and force impact during a crash, helmets for GS (and speed) must be HARD-sided, or have “rigid ear protection” as described by US Ski & Snowboard standards. Soft-eared helmets are only permitted for slalom racing. Please note, the POC Artic SL is a SLALOM helmet. At a glance, it does appear to have hard sides, it is still considered a soft-eared helmet and would not be permitted for a GS race. Chin bars are an additional piece of safety equipment that are only permitted for SLALOM…