One Team

Our home training hill at Arctic Valley in Anchorage.

Through most of the winter, the Seawolf downhillers and the Seawolf uphillers are on different travel schedules. But we're the same team, and we're competing in the same RMISA ski meets. Often, as in the case of the MSU Invitational, we will complete the nordic portion of the event one week, but the ski meet won't be over until a couple weeks later when the alpiners show up and do their thing to finish off the event. You may wonder why it's scheduled this way. For-profit alpine resorts are not motivated to host ski races on the busy weekends because that's when the lifts and slopes fill up with paying customers. It's not in the resorts' best interest to close a section of the mountain on a busy Saturday morning to run a giant slalom race. Consequently, alpine races tend to be scheduled on weekdays, at times of least conflict with the weekend rush. Sometimes those windows of opportunity for alpine races can be separated by a week or two from the nordic portion of our RMISA ski meets.

Training at Arctic Valley

Our alpine skiers just finished up a set of races in Utah. Now they move on to Montana to finish off the MSU Invitational, in which we're currently in second place after the nordic portion of the event.

Carmen won silver at the World University Games a week or so ago in Lake Placid!