The Holidays and World Cup Cancellations

I hope that this post finds everyone in good health and enjoying some time out in the snow with family! I was lucky enough to have the time to head back to Steamboat for a week! I was able to spend some awesome time with family and friends! Steamboat has gotten very lucky this ski season and got close to 3 feet the couples days before I went home and another 3 during the week that I was home! It was so fun to ski some powder with family and friends. With the large amount of snow I wasn't able to jump in Steamboat, however it was nice to have some time off and enjoy some easy cross country skis and hiking for some powder! Park City was also getting large amounts of snow over Christmas making for awesome conditions in PC as well! I am now back in Park City doing some final preparations before we leave on Sunday! My team and I had planned on leaving on the 28th however the first World Cups of the year in Klingenthal, GER were cancelled due to lack of snow. And again this week we found out that the World Cup scheduled to take place in Schonach, GER next weekend were cancelled as well. This was not the news we were hoping to hear by any means, Central Europe has not been blessed by the snow gods as we have. As a nation we have 5 start spots for the current season of the World Cup so we were planning on taking all 6 of us to the World Cup and rotating starts. Due to the cancellation of next weekends World Cup myself, Ben, Michael, and Adam will be traveling to Hoydalsmo, NOR for another weekend of Continental Cup competitions. We chose to do this as airfare cancellations fees are something we want to avoid, and we are ready to start competing again! After the COC weekend in NOR the four of us will travel back to Central Europe to (fingers crossed) compete in the World Cup located in Chaux-Neuve, FRA. I will update my blog next week from NOR and hopefully you will be seeing a lot more of my team and I as we can't wait to start competing again! 

A beautiful snow covered Steamboat!