Coast Zone Finals

The Coast Zone Finals were held on Mt.Washington from April 2-4.

The club worked tirelessly to pull off this event but the weather just

wasn't going to cooperate. Friday April 2nd saw volunteers arriving

on the hill as early as 6:30 am with racers from around the province

waiting to compete. The snow had been pouring in all night and it

wouldn't let up all day with winds as high as 95 mph, that's right

mph, recorded at the summit. The entire mountain was without

power most of the day with no skiing operations and obviously no

racing. This spelled the end for the Super Giant Slalom which the

K1's would have been skiing for the first and only time this season.

Saturday brought a break in the weather but with all the new snow

the course was very soft and difficult to maintain. It was a lot of

work to clear all that new snow and set and maintain a slalom

course but a successful day of slalom racing was accomplished.

Sunday morning there was 15-20 cm of new snow with snow still

coming down to the point the race coaches decided the Giant Slalom

could not safely go on. It is impossible to hold an Alpine ski race in

fresh powder. At least the visiting skiers got to sample some of

Washington's fresh snow which we've been fortunate to have an

abundance of this season.

The Mt. Washington skiers did post some excellent results for the

slalom event and it was nice to see the race season end on such a

strong performance at home.

Maja finished 10th overall for the K1's and 3rd of the first year

racers, just a second behind her team mate Keegan McCooey who

placed 6th overall and 2nd of first years. Awesome!

The boys were also impressive with Liam Gilchrist placing 3rd,

Logan Frame 5th, Cole Anderson 6th and Robbie Yelland 9th.

Kole Harle raced hard but did not finish his race.

Maja's little sister Sylvi was selected to compete in an add-on race

for the K-Star group. She is actually 6 weeks too young for this

group but was invited to compete with racers one to two years

older. She finished in second place! Way to go Sylvi.

We didn't get too many photos of this event as we were all very

busy sweeping the course and working to keep the course in shape

for the racers. It was a very busy weekend for only getting in

one day of racing.

Maja out of the start gate!

Sylvi on course.

Maja and Sylvi with Robbie Yelland.