Camp Wrap-Up

We finished up camp on Sunday with a nice long early morning ski.  A little overnight snow made it look like winter finally - not enough to explore the logging roads, unfortunately, but enough to make for excellent skiing on the loop.  After a peaceful, moose-free drive home, we returned to reality and bare ground.  This was an excellent camp - although we spent five days and countless hours skiing on a 2k loop, the crew never seemed bored.  We accomplished a lot of solid training and good technique work, as well as our first time trial.  As importantly, the skiers got to spend a lot of quality time together and get to know each other better (for example, we all learned that Jackson can't tell the difference between tofu and yoga, and that the coaches are the best fooseball team).  Overall, five good days that should set us up well for the early season races that are coming up fast.

I should also give a quick recap of our last two camp dinners, since all Bowdoin Nordic fans place food right next to skiing in importance.  On Friday night, Babyen Isbjorn made a Thai chicken stir fry with tons of delicious vegetables (and high-class pressed tofu for the vegetarians), with carrot cake for dessert, without which no Bowdoin ski team camp would be complete.  Enano Loco closed out the competition with an impressive presentation:  enchiladas, spinach gorgonzola salad, and fake margaritas (with a nice touch of salt on the glass rims).  Dessert was KEY LIME PIE with homemade graham cracker crust - Jeff Bush would have been proud.  In short, we ate really well during this camp.  Picking a winner will be tough, and undoubtedly controversial.

One last note:  Shelby made a great camp video, which I was sadly unable to post.  We'll try to sort this out shortly.