Hello All,
Steamboat week in one word – Pure Fun! oops, that’s two words. We could
not have asked for better conditions. Lots of pow, amazing tree runs, a
great group of snowboarders, and a week chock full of activities.
The first part of the week we got new snow – lots of powder and good tree
runs plus good groomers, and a practice race course on Monday. The NAASF
race on Tuesday we had a total of 14 snowboarders (2 females and 12 males)
on a very nice race course. We had very good overall results in both female
and male races. However for the female races we had only two boarders –
Jennifer Naylor and Pam Curran. They did a great job but as you can see,
they need some help - we need more female boarders. I’d like to ask for
your help in recruiting new female members and bringing back previous
riders.
For the men, the top three racers were Jim Tullos, David (Dark) Hrdlicka and
Earl Weintraub. Great job guys! We also had a couple of new boarders –
Russ, Kurt & Justin . They got to race and did great.
On Tuesday afternoon we had what I consider the highlight of the day, we
called it the Boarder-X-Air-Extreme-Awesome-Super Race or boardercross for
short. We had most of our boarders come and ride the course. We had a
great time riding with each other in groups of 4, 5 and then everyone at
once, down a very nice boardercross course. No carnage, no collisions but a
lot of smiles, good comments and excited chatter. We learned a lot about
this type of racing and we would like to explore the possibility of
including this kind of event in future NAASF events.
On Wednesday afternoon we had a half-pipe clinic on the Maverick’s super
pipe – 450 feet long with 18 foot icy walls. At the beginning it was very
intimidating and everyone was wondering what the heck they were doing there
but after some excellent instruction from Sean, the Steamboat Springs
instructor, and a few runs down we were starting to get the hang of it and
the pipe seemed to shrink a little bit. It was super fun. Everybody that
participated was excited and would like to do it again.
As you can see, it was a fun week for the snowboarders with different
activities and a chance to learn new skills in addition to doing the NAASF
race. I hope we can keep this trend going for the future meets and get
other airlines to involved.
Your feedback is very important. If you participated in any of these events
and you have any ideas or suggestions please let me know. If you couldn’t
make it, feel free also to give me any thoughts and comments. I hope you
can make it to the next meet. We will do our best to plan some good
activities for the week in Snowbird.
I’d also like to thank Earl Weintraub who put a lot of work into
coordinating the extra events. Lastly, remember to let me know if you’re
coming to Snowbird next month. It’s very important so I can send the
seeding list to NAASF.
Hope to see you soon!
Pedro