Two hundred and forty kids and five teams from Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont descended upon Trapps in Stowe, Vermont to race three days for the Eastern H.S. Championships. Gretchen Powers, a junior at Middlebury Union High School, writes of her experiences as a member of the Vermont Team. The squad consisted of twenty four racers and Gretchen was the only representative from this area.
"The weekend went reasonably well for the state of Vermont despite not winning the championship. Friday afternoon showed warm and wet snow, and a difficult course for the 5k freestyle race. Thanks to great connections through our head coach Noah Noyes, we ate at a very respectable restaurant for dinner (whose name i now forget) For much of the team, sleep was hard to come by and many of us lay awake staring at the ceiling, or tossing and turning on the small, hard beds we slept on.
Saturday morning was the classic sprint, a very short 1k. The afternoon led way to a very exciting classic/freestyle mixed relay with a guy and girl to each disipline on each team (4x2.5k). The banquet Saturday night was at Stowe high school and Vermont skiers gobbled up some great raffle prizes (I am not included in this as I have the worst raffle luck on the planet). Everyone fell into bed and slept soundly Saturday night from sheer exhaustion. Sunday morning, early rising for tough wax conditions for the 7.5k mass start classic race.
Maine pulled through in first place, with Vermont in second and New Hampshire in third. It was a rough weekend for Vermont, and for myself, with many racers lost to JO's, Canadian Nationals, and sickness, I was bumped from 20th seed to 13th, and had a rather rough weekend of racing."
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