Kongsberger Ski Club

When you're new-KSC-member, long-time skier Jane Ritchey and you just can't bear for the ski season to be over yet, what's a girl to do but head down to Bend for JD Downing's renowned spring training camp? Rob and Suzanne felt the same way and they went with her; all three experienced fantastic skiing, fantastic coaching, an inspirational head start on next season! Below is Jane's report, followed by some additional commentary from Rob. (Both photos are Rob's.) Suzanne, Jane, and Stacey Galinant, coach for Bogus Basin Nordic Team and  spring  camp and MWC regular  As reports came back from Rob and Suzanne’s trip to the World Cup, I was inspired to look for more opportunities to race or at least work on technique. After the Ozbaldy race it seemed too soon to end the XC season and KSC snow melt was looking like there would be very little track skiing after the end of grooming March 30th. I was starting to dream about going with the US team to Italy in 2026. So I s...

 Many thanks to Rob Corkran, our man on the spot, for this race report from the Engadin and the Masters World Cup in Klosters, Switzerland, and for the photos -- I mean, those mountains!  How could you even ski with that backdrop? Somehow the racers did, and here is the report: *** With a rough start to our journey and an immediate flurry of races upon arrival, let alone recent open-heart surgery, this was a challenging year at the Masters World Cup for Suzanne especially, but also me.  See below, Appendix, for a summary of the unexpected drama that we faced this year! After a first day inspecting the MWC course for the “elderly”, women over 70 and men over 75, we headed for the start of the famous Engadin Ski Marathon.  This entailed early rising and an early train with transfer to bus. Start of the Engadin Ski Marathon The last stage of the bus trip was along the lake on which the race starts, in opposite direction to the race. The lead skiers could be se...