1. It brings you to amazing places.
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| Lex watching a great sunset up on Eagle |
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| Rosie and I all bundled in our llbean rain gear- prepared for a wet descent. |
2. It makes you work harder than you could ever imagine for it, but the rewards are high.
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| Saved by a coke after a long week, and a long final workout! |
3. You are happy to make sacrifices for it on a year-around basis.
4. When it challenges you, you are willing to take on adversity and be resourceful.
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| Blurry hike on the treadmill after a rollerski crash left my knee and hand pretty banged up. |
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| Best part about wearing your bones on the outside of your gloves... you can check up on any broken ones easily! |
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| Thanks to our amazing coach, Erik Flora, for managing 100 tasks, always staying positive, and believing 110%! |
6. It takes you outdoors in all varieties of conditions, but never lets you focus too much on the weather.
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| Sunny, or.... (Eric Packer photo) |
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| Not so pleasant.... |
7. It leaves you feeling fit, happy, and challenged.
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| Enjoying every second! (Eric Packer photo) |
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| Tyler vs. Rosie. How to get two sets of skis up the long 1km climb from the stadium? |
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| A perfect day on Eagle (Zuzana Rodgers photo) |
8. It teaches you about a variety of things, including the changes in climate and glaciers and how to observe your surroundings.
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| A glacier melting down to blue ice in new places. |
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| Many varieties of snow crystals throughout the day on Eagle. (Zuzana Rodgers photo). |
9. You love every second of it, including the brutally long and challenging training hours, races, intervals, and more.
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| The boys pushing hard, working on uphill DP (Zuzana Rodgers photo). |
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| Team Sprinting with Thomas-Finding the race mindset. (Zuzana Rodgers photo) |
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| Giving it all (Zuzana Rodgers photo). |
10. It constantly reminds you to be thankful for the opportunity you are given.
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| Racing around the world representing your country! |
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| Skiing on a Glacier in the middle of summer...!! (Zuzana Rodgers photo). |
Last week was APU's third and final week of training on Eagle Glacier for the summer. It was a successful camp despite some little hurdles thrown my way just before. (I took a big crash on roller skis that left me with a fairly banged up knee and a hand with some sort of ligament/bone damage). But, sunshine cures all frustrations, and that last kilometer skied for the summer on Eagle was my happiest. Over the course of the summer, I had some great time to work on technique goals, I got to ski hundreds of kilometers, and I got to focus my heart on ski racing 100%.
I have been to fourteen camps now on Eagle Glacier, and it still hasn't gotten old. I am just as excited, motivated, and incredibly thankful as I was my first camp on Eagle. It is so hard to believe that I train in town, jump on a helicopter, and am engulfed in winter for a full week… only to return back to town for three weeks of training, and repeat three times throughout the summer! That is a true dream world!
