I always look forward to this one. Such a nice location and such low stress. It’s really nice to spend time with the whole team when racing is pretty far from our minds. It’s much lower stress!

Skiing with Cyril (Swiss friend), Walker Hall, Brian Bushey, JC, and Luke

The first couple days it snowed quite a bit so we got some winter-feeling skiing. That was a good place to start, because then it got hot and pretty slushy.

Still doing garage strength because it’s more convenient and keeps us from ego lifting in the gym. Our strength coach T took a break from her van life sabbatical to get us on the right track; thanks T!

Pretty amazing place to be. Pretty sure those peaks are South Sister, North Sister, and Broken Top (L to R). Volcanoes!

Working technique with coach Kristen Bourne (photo Torsten Brinkema)

Took this to show off my chill new Bliz glasses and POW shirt

Part of why this camp is so ideal is the ability to ski but also do other training on dry roads and trails down lower in Bend. It makes it easy to transition between winter and summer activites!

Like mountain biking! Got a new bike from Intense a couple weeks ago and I HAD to bring it down there to try it out. Love it. It’s an xc bike with 100mm of travel that I’m stoked to race on this summer.

We also got the opportunity to do a community event in Bend as a team, which actually was my first real organized thing with the US Team. Covid kinda pushed us away from doing these things because of illness, but we felt comfortable getting back out there and thanking this community that takes us in every year by doing an event that started with some core, then broke into activity stations, then moved into some Q&A, and finished with some prizes and stuff. Really fun and I’m so glad we’re doing this stuff again! And thankful to the people that organized it for us.

Thanks for bearing with some scattered thoughts! Message or Email me if you want to see blogs about anything specific, otherwise I’ll just do some stuff here and there through the summer.