Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Updated: Wednesday, January 30, 2008. 3:53
This should be the Final update before the meet tomorrow.
All directions and times have been updated.
Attention Parents: We will be at Trollhaugen Ski area for the Conference Championships.
The Conference Chamionships will be held at Trollhaugen downhill area. Directions are below. Allow an hour and 20 mins to get there from Elk River. The bus will leave from Elk River High School at 7:30am. Be early inorder to get everything packed and on the bus by that time.(7:15am) This is an all day activity. We do have parents bringing hot potatos, soup, and other goodies. Make sure you bring fluids (water or gaterade), dry clothes, change of ski clothes and all your equipment.
Parents, we will need some help with workers at the meet. We'll need one, possible two workers at each race (Girls and Boys Varsity CL, Girls and Boys Varsity SK). If you are available to work a race, let us know and we'll jot your name down. We'll have more details for you after the coaches meeting. It would be great if we could have a few people volunteer so each parent would only be working one event (And not an event that their skier was racing in). Thank you in advance for your help.
We (coaches and parent volunteers) will be putting the final coat of wax on your skis Wednesday night. We will make sure that your skis are at the school Thursday morning, you are responsible for everything else. Please make sure you get the base coat of wax on your skis Tuesday night so that we can start waxing your skis right after practice on Wednesday. We'll give you details at practice for wax but plan on CH4 for classic and CH6 for skate. Again, we will get a more accurate picture tomorrow so listen up at practice. Also, remember to label your skis with your name and the technique. Make sure that your kick zone is clearly labeled for your classic skis. We want a narrow strip of tape at each end marking the zone for us. Don't just rely on our finding your marks, after 12 pairs of skis and a lot of wax fumes, they all look the same. ;-)
The Awards Ceremony should be at 4:00pm. We are planning on that being over by 4:30pm and we are hoping to be home by 6:00pm. (This will depend on traffic some) Cell phones will be available for skiers to call for rides on the way.
Pasta Dinner:
The Volk's are hosting the Pasta Dinner before Conference. They have been extremely flexible and have moved the dinner to Tuesday night instead on Monday. This is prime carbo loading time so please join in the team fun! Also - make sure you give a hearty "Thank You!" for the dinner and for allowing us (the coaches and volunteer parents) to wax in their large garage on Wednesday.
Directions:
Trollhaugen is located at 2232 100th Ave in Dresser, Wisconsin. You can Mapquest the directions if you want, or they are below for you. Most of you know your way to Forest Lake, the directions below take you through the main roads to Forest Lake and then on to Trollhaugen but if you know a better way to Forest Lake, take it.