KMSST Week 13 Review

The Revolution Tour's freestyle events took place on Monday and Tuesday. Mitch and Alex competed in the halfpipe on Monday. (HP results) While Mitch, Alex and Chris competed in slopestyle competition on Tuesday. (SS results.) The team rode Copper on Wednesday and then traveled to Winterpark at days end. Winterpark was on the radar because the boys wanted to check out the Dark Territory Park... and they were not dissapointed. They had some monster jumps that challenged everyone. I think Mitch was the only one to leave without any sort of minor injury. The team traveled to Boulder the next day to visit the Colorado University at Boulder campus. Chris, the only senior on the team, was just accepted and was very excited to get the opportunity to check it out. Alex's sister Caitlin is a freshman there and was kind enough to give us all a tour of the campus. The team headed to Denver for some dinner after visiting the campus and then took in an NHL hockey game. It was a great game that had the Avalanche beating the Phoenix Coyotes 2-1. The team then jumped into the Suburban and headed straight to the airport for a red eye flight home.

The competitors gather at the top of the halfpipe

Mitch focuses before his run

Alex gets his tunes going before his run

Mitch hits the slope course on Tuesday

Slopestyle venue

Chris prepares for his slope run

Alex styles it out

The team checks out the rest of the mountain on Wednesday

Max in the back bowl

Go big or go home

Chris goes Method

Mitch spins off the big cliff drop

Mitch and Max soar in the park

No stopping Max Elles

Mitch press'n

Winterpark on Thursday

A must see video to get into the Dark Territory park

Viva Winterpark!

Max happy to be somewhere powdery

Everyone's happy!

The team gets a campus tour of CU... thanks to Alex's sis Caitlin

Chris outside Folsom Field in Boulder... Go Buffs!

Lets go Avalanche!

The team takes in an Avalanche game on Friday

Who is that masked man? (hint... X-KMS coach)

Pretty sweet seats

The team checks in at the Denver Airport after the game

KMSST Week 12 Review

This was an exciting week for the team. Mitch got his new board early in the week and was able to train on it before the first big trip of the year. The team headed to Copper Colorado on Friday for USSA's second installment of the Revolution Tour. The team had a good flight into Denver and had no issues settling in to the condo at Copper. Max and Chris trained for boardercross on the first day, while Mitch and Alex practiced at the slope and halfpipe venues. The boardercross event was held on Sunday. Max and Chris's results can be found on the following link. www.live-timing.com

Rome comes through and Mitch is happy

Valvoline Instant Oil Change hooks up the teams ride

Alex training pipe early in the week

Chris airs out the pipe

Max does the same

Mitch going big

Alex hits the S-rail above the pipe on Dreamaker

Justin shooting the team on Thursday

Alex taps the Gatorade tank

Mitch

The team on the drive from Denver to Copper

Denver

Boardercross training for Max and Chris

Max gets out to an early lead

Max and Chris before their Time Trial

Chris on course

Max on the first bank turn

KMSST Week 11 Review

What a start to week 11... RAIN, RAIN, and more RAIN, which can be a depressing thing if you like winter sports. How ever, in this case, Killington managed to get the mountain into fantastic shape by Wednesday. The team was off on Monday while the wet stuff wreaked havoc on the hill. On Tuesday we checked out the parks and discovered an icy half shut down playground, so we packed up the Suburban and headed down to the Green Mountain Rock Climbing Center in Rutland. Max was out due to illness but the rest were happy to get there climb on. Wednesday and Thursday were spent in the Dreamaker park and half pipe. The temperatures dropped into the minus digits on Friday with lots of unfriendly wind making training unbearable. So the team opted for a road trip up to the Rome offices to warranty Mitch's broken board. A very friendly Justin St. Pierre was there to greet us and take care of our needs. He even went beyond and hooked the team up with stickers and pro forms... thanks Justin! The team competed in a USASA Southern Vermont series slope event at Okemo the following day. Junior Men results had Mitch in 6th, Chris 12th, Max 16th, while Alex got 7th in a huge field of Youth Men. Mitch and Alex competed in pipe on Sunday. Both nailed clean runs and just missed getting on the podium with 4th place finishes. The team has a few days left of training at Killington before leaving for Colorado on Friday to compete in the Revolution Tour at Copper Mountain.

Alex belays Mitch while Chris watches on

Mitch climbs the ceiling!

Method for Alex while the park crew buffs out the pipe

The boys take a visit to Rome headquarters in Waterbury, VT

Leaving Okemo after a long day of slope competition

Mitch at the top of pipe during Heat #2