Hey - Caldwell Sport has been absorbed by the growing global giant of the ski industry known as Boulder Nordic Sport. The Caldwell family has been abducted and installed in Boulder Colorado. Check out http://www.bouldernordic.com/ to see what’s up. Whatever you do, don’t send skis to Squamish for service. If I could figure out how to change the sidebars on this website I’d do that. But the Caldwellsport IT guy got canned during the transition and now I can’t figure any of it out. Can’t even post a picture of the new shop setup down in Boulder.

I’ve figured out how to capture video onto my computer without Dan Roycroft’s help. Just think of the fun I can have now! This is from the same interval session as the photos I already posted…

Since when is a rainy day in Squamish big news? Well, until yesterday Morgan Smyth hadn’t trained in the rain once since she got here this Summer. It’s been a remarkably dry and warm Summer season, and the various new arrivals to the program are scratching their heads wondering what all this talk of rain is about. They’ll learn. They’ll learn. [Read more →]

We’ve had spectacular weather out here for the past month or so. One of the locals that I talked to said “yeah - it can be like this. Maybe once every ten years or so.” So we’re trying to enjoy it really hard. I don’t mean we’re trying hard - you don’t need to try hard. We’re enjoying hard. Can you do that?

Kris Freeman and Dan Roycroft are out here currently. This is Kris’s first intensity camp of the year - he’ll be back here with the USST in September, and they’ll be in Lake Placid in October for more. Dan came out to bang heads with Kris, and apparently to show us how to use a rope swing. [Read more →]

Amy is up on the Haig glacier with the three CVTC athletes who are native British Columbians. That leaves Gunnar and me in charge of the rest of the crew. Today was threshold rollerski intervals on the rollerski track at Whistler Olympic Park. I haven’t seen much posted about rollerskiing at WOP, so I figured I’d put word out. [Read more →]

I’ve been struggling with images lately, and have convinced Brayton to upgrade me to the latest version of Wordpress in hopes of fixing the problem. Figured it was time for a post to test the fix. For that purpose it’s necessary to have a picture to post, and in this case I’ve chosen to post a picture of Gunnar riding his bike without training wheels. [Read more →]

I have recently returned from nine days on the road - two days of travel, and seven days picking skis in the Fischer factory race-room. This was my first trip to the factory, and there was a lot to see - and even more to learn. There was also the largest selection of really good race skis I’ve ever seen in one place. [Read more →]

The four weeks since my last update has been something of a blur. Two of them were spent visiting family and friends back East - not nearly enough time to get caught up. As spectacular as it is in BC, nothing beats returning to VT after a long spell away - particularly when you return for the most glorious week of weather so far this year. The trip East marked something of a change in gears - from finishing up the extended post-season of winter ‘07-’08, to jumping into the extended pre-season of winter ‘08-’09. [Read more →]

Yesterday was foggy and wet - the snow was soft but the air was chilly at the Callaghan Valley venue, and I had what must be my last on-snow ski of the season on the Olympic trails. Today and tomorrow are downright summery - sunny and hot. Not warm; hot. Saturday Gunnar and I will fly back East for a couple of weeks to visit family and friends.

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Today was the last on-snow day for the US Ski Team at their early May on-snow camp at the Callaghan Valley Olympic Venue. Things have been uncharacteristically busy for this time of year since my last post. I had a short trip down to Boulder to meet with Nathan Schultz to begin planning for world domination. We realized that we couldn’t quite flesh out the plans for primacy in four days, so I convinced Nathan to come up for another four days of nefarious plotting, along with groomed skiing, checking out the National Team camp, etc. [Read more →]

The transition from Winter to Spring appears to take as long as you want it to around here. I’ve been on a few great mountain bike rides already this Spring -the trails in Squamish are dry and in great shape, and the temps have been comfortable. But there is plenty of skiing still to be had as well. The Callaghan Valley still has 154cm of snow on the ground and the crew up there is keeping things in great shape. This week the US Biathlon Team and the Norwegian XC Team are in town skiing at the venue. Coming up we’ve got USST and Canadian XC teams. The report is that they’ll continue to groom through May 25th. [Read more →]