I made a trip to Austria in June to pick skis, but that’s old news. Recently I’ve been trying to coordinate my Fall schedule - trips back East to pick skis, Period One World Cup trip , another Austria trip, and Gunnar’s schedule around Amy’s various camps and races - it’s a bit of a puzzle. But the pieces are coming into place, and the first piece is coming up soon. Nathan has just finished a trip to the Fischer warehouse, and the end of August is a bit early for follow-up on BNS orders, but it’s a good opportunity for me to get back East to ensure that the stuff I picked in Austria (which has arrived) is going to the right places. It does present an opportunity though - if you missed the Austria trip, or Nathan’s recent trip, it’s not too late to contact either me or the guys at the home office to get on my pick-list for the last week of August.

I’ll fly back to Vancouver on the 30th - the same day that the USST arrives to begin the September dryland camp in Whistler. By my reckoning that marks something of a seasonal shift. At least from my point of view, it’ll be all skis all the time when I get back. I guess that means one more week of Summer. Oh well.