Hi all,

The Devo Team had a fantastic weekend! We saw some great improvements with our skiers. I am very proud of everyone for stepping up this weekend and really putting on their game face. We had some crashes which was a bummer but the kids were really going for it and that's what we’re after. Traditionally the Bogus Team plays catch-up with the other teams because of our late snow. I can see that we’re starting to make the turn and I am anticipating GREAT results in Kelly Canyon. I want to thank Dane Black for being the Race Chairman for the Cranston Cup. He was able to gather a tremendous group of volunteers. I really think this group of parents really out-did yourselves. You guys made the coaches jobs much easier. Tear-down was a snap and I think we must have broken a record by having everything put away by 4:15. Thanks so much for making the Cranston cup a huge success. I also want to thank Mark Wedeking, Ashley, Brett, Mike and Ray for all of their hard work this weekend!

Moving on...we’re switching gears to G.S. We have the Kelly Canyon race in 2 weeks. We will train G.S. on the Ridge on Wednesday night. We are going to try and get backside training over the weekend. Kelly Canyon has a great G.S. hill that has steeps and flats and we will do our best to get the kids prepared for this. If you haven’t made your hotel reservations we are staying at the Ameritel Inn Spectrum. The phone # is 208-552-2500. We have a block of rooms under the Bogus Basin Ski Team and the rate is $69.00 per night. We will have a short team meeting in the hotel lobby on Feb. 10th at 8:00. We will have the schedule for the weekend and bibs for Saturday. Coaches traveling to this race are myself, Brett and Mike. Please let me know if you are not planning on attending this race. I will be entering our entire roster for the race if I don’t hear from you.

I am also looking for parent volunteers to ride the bus. Thank you to Mike Hill, Deb Marria, Danny Quintana and Amy Lodge for taking this duty so far. Danny Quintana has volunteered for this Wednesday so I am looking for parent’s on Feb. 8th, 15th, 22nd, Mar. 1st, 8th and the 15th. Let me know if you might be able to do this. So far, the parent’s who have ridden have come back in one piece and have said the trip wasn’t entirely awful. Now that I am on the subject of the bus....we have a new rule regarding the kids who are riding. If a kid is only riding up to Bogus, their parent’s need to tell the parent on the bus that they will not be riding down. The bus driver gets nervous about accidentally leaving a kid up there and is waiting for kids who have already caught a ride down with someone else. Unless you have notified the parent on the bus that your kid will only be riding up, your child has to ride the bus down. We don’t want kids catching a ride with someone without prior authorization. Thanks a ton for helping us with this.

Again...thanks so much for all of your hard work this weekend. It was very much appreciated! If you want to take a look at results from this weekend go to: http://www.ussa-imd.org/alpine/races05/north.htm.

Carma