Kongsberger Ski Club

KSC board member Jeff Eustis headed to Leavenworth last weekend for the summer WRAC meeting, representing KSC's request for grooming funds for next year and additional funds to clean up some annoying problems (flooding culverts and tippy port-a-potties). He was successful -- thanks, Jeff! -- and his report is below: Summary of WRAC Meeting This year I attended the summer meeting of the Winter Recreation Advisory Committee, or WRAC, which advises the Washington State Parks Department on the dispersal of funds collected through the SnoPark program for such activities as grooming. In brief, the Parks Department proposed and the WRAC recommended approval of $2.3 million across all of its categories of programs, including $191K for grooming at Cabin Creek and $2800 for ditch cleaning and leveling of the port-a-potty area in the parking lot. In short, the snow gods allowing, Cabin Creek skiers are in for another good year. As you should know by now, the maintenance and grooming of the Ca...

  "Movement is medicine, movement increases mobility, and a rolling stone does not get mossy. That's how the saying goes, and it is. Exercise is as important as eating and sleeping."  ~Hilkka Riihivuori, former Finnish Olympic skier, current masters skier (and podium stander), 72 years old (so you know she knows what she's talking about!) Some years ago I spent a week at JD Downing's training camp in Bend. It was super fun and I learned a lot, as you can imagine. I dug out some of the notes I took that week in case you, like me, need a little boost in these dog days of summer. Winter is coming! "The tried-and-true method is lots of easy distance in the summer, with a small amount of intensity and tiny bits of easy explosive/plyometrics, then increasingly more intensity and more plyometrics in the fall. Transition period starts when you get on snow, and you can back off a little on the intensity and do lots of easy distance again, for about three weeks. Then w...