Reminder that we will have the Pizza social for interclub at 2:45 tomorrow Saturday Jan 3rd at 2:45 at Four Brothers Pizza in Hillsdale
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Ski Tuning
With Camp over and a lot of skiing on icy and dirty snow, now is time for a good ski tune. Black Diamond Tuning Center on Main St, Great Barrington is run by Coach Mike Stevens and can help you out. (413) 528 9668 blackdiamondskituningcenter@gmail
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Interclub Pizza Social
We will have our annual Interclub Pizza Social next Saturday Jan 3rd at Four Brothers after practice 2:45Pm Four Brothers down the hill right before Hillsdale on the left. Adults will be $10, kids free.
jacket update
Stacey Stevens found a back channel in order to get info from Spyder. At this point the jackets are “stuck” in Asia and will not be available for a few more weeks. I have followed up with an email to our rep that was terse with three points; it is useless for kids jackets to be delivered near the end of the season; that they have not met their commitment, and their lack of communication and response is unacceptable. I will follow up with a response to someone more senior at Spyder.
Jackets
I have had a frustrating week trying to get a response from our sales rep at Spyder. Im elevating the issue and trying to get a response on the status. We have not had any issues like this in the past and I am disturbed with the lack of communication.
Tristate meeting
Reminder that there is a Tristate meeting after practice today Sat 20th
TriState Parents Meeting
We will be having a short meeting for tristate parents this Saturday after practice. We will be going over some program issues and answer questions. We will also be discussing our needs regarding fencing for gate training on Ally Cat. Once the conditions are right the mountain generally gives us sole access to that hill for training in the mornings. It offers the best gate training in Western Ma. Jon Nolting from USSA was very impressed with its terrain challenges. He also noted the need for increased protective netting. We rely too much on coaches and older racers to fence the hill and we lose valuable training time. We will be discussing what can be done to improve the situation.
Team Jackets
We have historically gotten our jacket order by early December but we still have not received it. The Jackets were supposed to be into Spyder from the factory on Nov 20th and then embroidered. I have been going back and forth with them on the current status and hopefully they will be in by next week. Peter Chudy
Catamount Opening
Catamount will be open this weekend. I was up last weekend and saw piles of man made snow covered with over a foot of the natural stuff. It should groom out nice. Snow guns are blasting away at this very moment.
The FIRST DAY of PRACTICE is December 13th
Peter Chudy
Interclub Tristate Migration
Given the large numbers of racers at the Interclub races over the past two years there is a discussion regarding capping the number of racers at each event. Given the size of our program this could cause us to make some changes in how racers participate in the races.
We have a large number of racers who are eligible to race at the TriState U12 (10,11 year olds) and U 14 (12, 13 year olds) U12/U14 attend the same races. The age is based on December 31st. The coaches are encouraging experienced racers to make the move to TriState. If you have questions you can reach out to John Greaser, your last years coach, or myself.
Peter Chudy