Tuesday, June 2, 2015

One Last Blog Post from Hallie

47 carnival races 
30+ teammates
24 carnival weekends
4 years
4 assistant coaches (Dylan, Wilson, Matt, and James)
4 Chummy Cups
4 Rangeley camps
3 team carnival podiums
3 trips to Soldier Hollow
3 seniors of 2015
2 Foret Thanksgiving camps
2 continuing to ski 
1 working at a CA start up
1 short term where we were all on difference continents (Africa, Asia, and Oceania)
1 Craftsbury Thanksgiving camps
1 Camp Condor
1 Coach
1 Becky

Here goes my last post on the Bates nordic blog. When I came to Bates as a freshman, I had no idea how quickly these four years would fly by. And fly by it did. On Sunday Connor, Nick, and I graduated amidst a rain storm and lots of family and friends. The saying "once a Bobcat, always a Bobcat" rang true, as there were plenty of alums roaming around, most notably Caroline and Gabby! Of course, teammates past and present were remotely in touch, congratulating us and making sure we were having the best of times. And, Evan Dion visited for a few days at the beginning of the week, which was awesome!

Here are a few pictures from the weeks leading up to graduation and absolutely none from graduation day (and then I had fun looking at old pictures so there's a few that date back to the early days).


Baccalaureate 

Baccalaureate- with PC too!
Gabby!

Caroline!


Coach was inducted into the Scholar- Athlete Society this weekend for his countless accomplishments and contributions to athletics at Bates, in Maine, and nationally
Senior Athletes and Coaches Dinner

With our alpiners too- congrats Emily!
In case you forgot we ski!
Chummy Cup #4 in the books
Thanksgiving Camp Senior Year- maybe a bit too comfortable around each other at this point?
Junior year Turkey Day camp


The first Rangeley camp!

Thanks to ALL who have made these four years wonderful, especially coaches, teammates, and parents. 
Love,
Hallie

And thanks to parents, iPhones, Steve Fuller, and Facebook for the pictures- as always. 



Sunday, May 17, 2015

What do nordies do when the season's over?



KEEP SKIING!
A few weeks ago, a group of five, Bria, Hallie, Connor, and two of Connor's friends went to Tuckerman Ravine for an awesome day of backcountry skiing.
With Connor as a trusty guide, we hiked up to the bowl, where we were greeted by hoards of people- people everywhere. People were skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, sledding- you name it!
Everyone except Hallie had boards with edges, so when they ventured up, she did some hotlaps around the bottom on the skinny skis.
We saw some wipeouts, a lot of good skiing, and two people go down the headwall on inflatable animals.

Here are some fun pictures from the day:
If you look closely, you can see them hiking up!

Nordie crew

Connor staying hydrated

The whole crew!
Hallie's action of the day came skiing down the hiking trail 
Girls!


 Happy Spring!
Bria and Hallie





Friday, May 15, 2015

Throwback

TBT

I found a great bobcat throwback this week as I was backing up my photos of Bobcat nordies-- Sadie 17', myself 17', and Hadley (future bobcat) '19 racing for team Maine. Also racing that weekend-- the March 2010 Eastern High School Championships at Mtn. Top, VT, bates current teammates and friends: Emmett, Britta, Halie, Jane, Gracie for VT, Nate, Zoe, Tara, Sadie, and Hadley for Maine, Mollie for New Hampshire and Chris for Massachusetts.

Quite a crew! I remember that race series being sunny and in the 70's... tough slush skiing. The real spring-skiing experience.

Enjoy the sun and happy spring! Tara