Ohau This Weekend!!

The Oahu BD Blast ski mountaineering race is on this weekend and is shaping up to b ea good one!
Last year this race was the biggest competitors wise and is looking to be the same this year. Word on the street is there is quite the crew from the southern lakes heading up, the usual crew from the Canterbury area will no doubt be there and a team of young French ski mountaineer's just arrived in the country this past weekend!
Details at www.bdblast.blogspot.com
Look forward to seeing you there!

Rainbow this Weekend!

The Rainbow Randonnee Race is this weekend!

It should be a great event, Rainbow Ski Aera, in the Nelson Lakes, is a magic little spot. There is amazing ski touring from the ski area, so after the race prize giving at 1330 I am sure there will be a crew out touring.
The race is the 2nd race of the 2008 SkiMoNZ series and will be about 700-800m of vertical. Maybe more is we have good weather and lots of helpers to be on the course.

Hopefully we will see you this weekend, if not for the race, for the ski touring afterward!

Cheeseman Race Training Clinic 2nd August

Race training clinic taking place this weekend at Cheeseman. It will be a pretty casual affair, here's a rough time table-
0900-0930 meet up at the Cheeseman day lodge
0930-1000 Talk about the days plan and have a look at gear.
1030-1230 Work on transitions and techniques.
1230-1330 Lunch
1330-1530 Small tour, practicing what was learnt in am.
1630 Very short relay race. Teams of 2 or 3.

Bring all the stuff you normally would when ski touring. The relay race maybe in the dark, so make sure you remember a head touch!

If you want to stay at Snow Line Lodge DBB call to book- 03 318 8794 ex720

Hopefully we will get out for a ski tour on the Sunday also, but the whole weekend is weather dependent.

Looking forward to seeing here on Saturday.

Transtions

Noel and I went up to Temple Basin on Sunday and made these small transition videos.
Skins Off
Skins On

This will be the kind of thing we will cover at the Cheeseman race clinic this weekend. I hope we will see you there as every one (esp me!) can learn something new or how to improve on exciting skills.

Here's Noel working on a new, faster stride............

Speed Up-Post Race

After the Porters/Dynafit Speed Up Race yesterday Jane, Noel and I went for a ski out back of Porters, making the most of the great conditions currently in the Craigieburns.

Jane and I skinning above "Uli's Role"

Jane skiing the top of "Crystal Valley"

Noel and Jane skinning out of Crystal

Jane making turns on the western side of the Craigieburn Range.

All up we did about 1000m of vert.

Looking forward to seeing you all at Cheeseman this weekend for the Ski Mountaineering Race training clinic!