Treebeard Posted July 8, 2020 Report Share Posted July 8, 2020 Well after the season crashed to a covid close back in March; will be hitting the glacier this weekend for some gate training with Meadows Race Team at Timberline. Set a bucket list goal to qualify for USASA nationals this last season after turning 50 and what had been a 25 year snowboarding hiatus until the 2018-2019 season. Hung up the ski coaching responsibilities this last season to concentrate fully on getting a used SG SL and GS board under control and make the cut for Copper; mission accomplished. Was super bummed when Copper was cancelled so time to start training for the upcoming season. Want to put a huge shout out to the AS community for all the stoke and advice. This is an amazing resource. Also to my local brothers J Burke and Doc Schindler two local Portland hardbooters who always bring the stoke and are ready to go tear up Meadows. A good day ripping the corn with Doc and a mid day pit stop this season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jng Posted July 9, 2020 Report Share Posted July 9, 2020 Can anyone join for gate training? Willing to drive down from Seattle to run gates. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treebeard Posted July 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2020 Unfortunately gonna be with 30 ski racers in a paid camp and not gonna be open to public. However, if there was enough interest next summer I have the commitment from the program director that we could run an alpine snowboard training camp on the glacier. Would need to schedule lane space in late spring, I have access to all the gates we would need here in Hood River. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VTHops Posted July 10, 2020 Report Share Posted July 10, 2020 Keep us updated. My son and I have done High Cascade and had a blast out there. He is mainly focused on boardercross but after a few races in hard boots he is seeing the light. He attends a mountain school for snowboarding and is getting pretty good. He and several other team mates want to focus more on GS and SL and having a few days mid summer could be enough to lure us from Maine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVR Posted July 10, 2020 Report Share Posted July 10, 2020 Who is your son, as mine is/was part of the weekend program at the Loaf. Mike (my son) certainly likes his gates.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jng Posted July 10, 2020 Report Share Posted July 10, 2020 You can put me and my 12 year old son on the list for next year. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treebeard Posted July 12, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2020 JNG, thanks for your reply. I would have loved to put an alpine camp together this summer at Hood and would have had the support of the Meadows Race Team. The bug really put a weird twist on the season but Timberline pulled it together and has apparantly been a solid summer of training up there other than some rough weather in June. I understand the USST has been training on the glacier for the first time in a long time due to international travel restrictions. Soooo I will put the call out this early coming spring to gage interest in a race training focused camp. We also have some former Olympian snowboard racers here in Hood River that I could reach out to gage interest in coaching. Otherwise it would be ski racing coaches. If a light response then could probably jump in on MRT ski racing camp. Sean 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dw3 Posted November 21, 2020 Report Share Posted November 21, 2020 Hit me up, I can get you in touch with a great hard boot coach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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