Sunday was an excellent training day. We got up early and did the dawn patrol scene up the Whiteface Ski Area. Thirty minutes after this sunrise picture was taken an intense snow squall enveloped us, reducing visibility to just a few meters. Ripping the hide an getting into all our warm stuff, set us up for a nice run down the mountain, and we got off the hill just as the first paying customers were heading up the lift. Back home Selden cooked us a huge breakfast and we watched the Eurosport coverage of Nordic Combined (yahoo USA) and the women's cross country World Cup relay. Then it was out the door for another 75 minutes on the NCS ski mountaineering loop. As you can see, we did some kick turn practice on our ski hill ... Dick are you honing your kick turn for the Alps? Although conditions were not ideal we managed 5000' over the two days and had a pretty good shakedown cruise.
