No time like snow time!

At approximately 5:55 p.m. on Thursday, November 10 Coach Colin notified us that there was potential for some of that white stuff to be on the ground by the morning, and that it was "time to revive the 'first on snow' competition".  The criteria was that there had to be a picture taken of them skiing on the 'snow' and that it had to be legit flakes of snow-not just a thick frost covering the ground.  And though I am not sure as to how many competitors showed to the start line for this one, there was a definite winner.  Tim Hughes was able to both ski on acceptable 'snow' and snap a shot of himself doing so.  Although the prize was not publicly awarded, or even seen for that matter, it was said to be an eloquent snowflake crafted from corrugated material and wrapped in silver lining.  Though I do have a hunch it was a cardboard snowflake wrapped in tin foil, just a guess though.

Going with the 'first on snow' theme was the potential to head up to Highlands for some better quality powder.   Unfortunately though, the weather was a tad warm and so rollerskiing was once again the way to go for the weekend.

A little bit of a makeover?

If you've started reading this, I'm sure you've seen that there have been some aesthetic changes to UW Nordic News.  The previous format, although visually pleasing, was a little out of date and starting to feel like our bulletin board inside the PAC (I think it's advertising OU's for either 2008 or 2009?).  The goal is to make the blog somewhat similar to the previous- having pictures of team members (past and present?), updates as to what the team has been up to, all the usual stuff, just newer format.  As you can see the format that you are currently seeing is the 'dynamic format' to which you change your view of it to mosaic, snapshot, etc (you should be able to do this in the top left corner), but there are many formats to choose from.  That being said and done, feedback from regulars (of course I can assume we have many, many regular readers) as to reading format, etc. would be fab.  It is nowhere near being done, or started really, but here's to some fresh ideas.
Over and out.