On course at Mont Sainte Anne: Part 3

None of us were looking forward to day three.

It wasn’t the fact that we were going to spend the majority of our day skiing moguls (we liked that part), it was the fact the forecast was calling for pouring rain and 8 degrees.

The temperature did get a bit warmer – but it stayed below zero which resulted in 15 lovely cm of snow instead of 15 cm of pouring rain. What was looking like a miserable day turned out to be another epic day on snow.

We had Donald LaCasse as our level 4 course conductor who brought with him a slight different approach than the previous two days.  One of his analogies was to think of each turn as a deflection off a wall – so where you turn in the arc of the turn affects the rebound in the other direction – or turn shape. It was a neat approach and one we played with for a while until Donald had an unfortunate accident in the bumps which resulted in a pulled hamstring.

We switched gears to pedagogy (or teaching the teachers) while Donald skied on one leg for a few more hours before Steve Young (of Pontiac World of Skiing) took over for the last hour of the day. Steve took us back into the bumps and into the trees.

Overall it was another great day on snow. We’ll be back in the bumps for day four and secrety hope that JF Boulieu will join our group. JF is on the national demo team and would be a great substitute for Donald. No matter who we get on day four, we are looking forward to it.