8km @ 8pm in 8 degrees to celebrate 2008!

The climax of New Years camp is always the race New Years Eve and this year was no exception.

When we decided to move the camp from Winter Park to Laramie we were hoping to not only give our athletes an alternative activity for New Years but the Laramie ski community as well. To this end we opened the race to MBNA members, anyone could race for free and enjoy the goodies after the race. It turns out that this was a great plan! We had 24 racers braving the cold and dark to ski in the new year.

It was an absolutely beautiful evening for a race and the temperature even contributed with 8 degrees F at race start! We were a little disappointed that only 4 of our athletes choose to participate, we were hoping some of them would come down for the race even if they couldn't make the whole camp. Despite the poor UW turnout we had a fantastic citizen/high school turnout and it was a great time.

Watching the headlamps bobbing as the skiers went up the campground hill was an amazing and wonderful sight!

We took some pictures that can be found on our web album at: http://picasaweb.google.com/boggsarosa/8km8pmFor2008
I want to thank Nat and Randy for grooming that rivals Royal Gorge, Ca which costs $29/day to ski. Talk about a bargin with MBNA being $15 for the season!

The ski season is about to start for real with the Utah NCAA race January 11-12 and the Pole Mt. Shuffle on January 13.

Woo Hoo!