K2 Women's Ski Weekend 2/8/09

This weekend was the K2 Women's Ski Weekend, a weekend of ski fun with the gals and raising funds for breast cancer. We started the event with a social at Fuller Lodge on Friday night. There were about 50 women participating in this event, some skiers, some tele-skiers, and some snowboarders of all levels and ages. We had an amazing talk from Carolyn Hall Young and learned about the Anita Salas Fund http://abqwgc.com/ which a portion of our raised funds will go to. It was an inspiring night and got us excited.

Saturday we met for breakfast up at the ski hill, took a group picture (see above and the poster will be in the Lodge at Pajarito soon) and separated into our groups for the day. I was in the tele-skiing group. There were 5 of us plus our team leader Amy. Myself and one other woman were fairly new at tele-skiing and Amy gave us some great instruction and we figured out how to fix the tele-wedge which I tend to get. Of course it had to do with weighting my uphill leg. Surprise, surprise. The good news is that I was able to actually weight it enough to fix the wedge, now I just have to do it all the time. But I have felt how to make it happen now.

K2 had the new line of women's tele skis on hand for us to demo. They are: (1) gotback 135-102-121 tip rocker (2) payback 129-92-115 (3) sheback 121-80-107 . These skis have not even come out on their website yet. But keep an eye out for them http://www.k2temark.com/home.asp?Lang=English I still love my G3 Nectars so I'm not switching YET.

Unfortunately my daughter ended up in surgery that day and so I missed the afternoon of skiing, but there were games, a scavenger hunt, apres ski yoga and a wonderful dinner with video and photos from the day (I was able to attend for about 1 1/2 hours).

The more I tele the more comfortable I am getting. I have a few things to work out and get that "muscle memory" to stick and then I'm moving on to moguls.

I spent Sunday taking care of my girl. Surgery was tough but she is a trooper :-) Donna made it up to Taos for what was our last lesson. She was given a private lesson by Dave (the instructor on my second lesson). She learned a lot and is feeling better about her abilities. Attitude is everything and having confidence is key. I actually saw Dave (and met his girlfriend) up at Pajarito on Saturday. They were there for the very first time and thought that it would be a really great mountain to ski when the snow is good (which it is not by the way, super hard). Snow is predicted for this week so hopefully we will be skiing powder soon.

Stay tuned for next years "K2 Chicks on Sticks" weekend. I might be even bigger and better than this years This group raised ~ $3000 for the Anita Salas fund.