Chile

This fall has been an epic adventure of the unknown: SCHOOL!! I started school this fall at the University of Vermont. Somehow I am in the Civil Engineering progra,...well I know how...but it still seems crazy to me! I have my own house (with three awesome roommates) and I have training two hours per day with my UVM ski teammates. It has been a super busy schedule full of very interesting new information. I am absolutely loving being back at school. It feels great to use my brain! It has definitely not been easy using it since it has basically been on a 4 year snooze (calculus has been a little difficult) but it is slowly waking up!

This fall I was supposed to join the Canadian National Team on their camp in Saas Fee. I was really excited to go and have a great camp with them but, alas, it was not to be. The National Team wanted me to bring my own coach to the camp which would already have been expensive...to bring my own coach would have meant nearing the $10,000 mark for a 16 day camp. This.....well this is DEFINITELY above my budget! I started looking around for other opportunities for good skiing and ended up coming down to Chile with the BC Mens team with Brandon Dyksterhouse. I arrived in Santiago with my homework in my backpack and a stoked feeling about skiing! When we arrived at Valle Nevado it became very apparent that they were badly in need of snow! This was negated however by how good the snow that was there actually was! I had two days of amazing training in Slalom when Dykster broke the news that the BC team was going to pull out due to the lack of snow in two days. To say I was surprised and a little disappointed would be a little mild. I decided to stay because who comes to Chile only to leave after four days? AND the training that I was getting was great! After the BC boys left I continued to have great training. I did a day of training with the US mens europa cup team which was great followed by two days of training with the Whistler Club which were also great. So despite some challenges (including having to tune my own skis...which got shredded here by rocks and also delaminated...MY NEW SKIS!!! BOO) this has been a very successful short camp. I feel I am skiing the best slalom of my life and more consistantly too.

I would really like to thank all the people at home who have made this trip possible including Tim Schmidt, Sun Peaks Resort, my Mom and Dad and John Crichton (coaching from afar!). You guys make my dreams come true!

On that note here is the link to the video edit I made of my camp!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IabR5RPDB8A

Thanks!

Elli

New Zealand Video

Here is my video from New Zealand sorry for the wait!

This is some skiing that I feel pretty good about! i am really happy with my slalom skiing coming out of this past camp and I am looking forward to heading to Chile next week with the Mens BC team! Cant wait to get back on snow!

So I am SUPER PROUD to present my big brothers new amazing bike video! There are so many reasons why I look up to my brother it is ridiculous. The fact that he is an amazing rider is cream on top of the cake...but here is the link!

AMAZING!

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Silvia-at-Sun-Peaks-Bike-Park-Justin-Terwiel-2011.html

Have a great day everyone!

New Zealand

So I am now in New Zealand having a great time! I was feeling extremely home sick this time around when I left home knowing that it was going to be a very long time before I came home again. I had a great few weeks there training and hanging out with great friends. It was really hard to leave that atmosphere. But once again as soon as Im was on the road I stopped focusing on home and started focusing on skiing, my new team mates on the UVM ski team and life at that moment.

It has been a great trip so far. The skiing has been good. The weather has been cooperative and the friends a plenty! I am now in Coronet training with the Canadian Womens team. Last week I was training in Snow Park with TCRA. I will try and upload photos or video soon!

Cheers,

Elli

Mt Hood Video

Here is my latest video of my skiing in Mt Hood, Oregon.

Summertime and the livings easy....

So I spent two weeks in the middle of June training and working in Canmore.  My goal for my training has been to increase my core stability, my quickness and keep strong.  Being able to go to Canmore and spend a few weeks training with the National Team girls (and having the gym soo close by) was great!!  Unfortunately when I returned home I immediately got a wicked cold and had to take a few days off.  NOT my favourite way to spend my days- lying on the couch with a box of tissues and tea.  Yesterday I left for Mt. Hood.  I am here on-snow training with the Mens BC ski Team.  It is always great to train with them as they are all good skiers who push me to ski my best all the time.  Luckily, I started to feel better the day before I left.  Lets hope that is the last bit of "sick" I'll see for a while.  We are going to be here training for ten days straight.  The weather looks like it will hold so the plan is 5 days of gs-progressing from sliding drills to timing in gates followed by 5 days of slalom-same progression.  It is a great opportunity to get my stuff together in GS and follow it up with skiing my favourite-SLALOM!!  Im looking forward to ripping up on my slalom skis which I haven't been on since the end of the season.

Hope everyone is having a great summer!!

Spring 2011

This spring has been a very good! I went to Thailand and have since been home training. In mid May I went to Whistler and tried my hand at coaching! It was a very fun experience which actually ended up helping my skiing. After that I focused on returning to a fairly normal life training in the gym and getting to spend time with my family. I have been in Canmore for the past two weeks training and working at the Alpine Club of Canada as a dishwasher. I went straight to the bottom of the job food chain!! Despite that, it was a very fun experience which was full of good laughs and new friends.

In other news, I have decided to take a scholarship to University of Vermont in the fall. I am very excited to join the Vermont team and get an education!!! I will continue to pursue my skiing. I want to prove that you can go to school and compete in World Cup as well. I am doing all the training this summer in order to set myself up for success this coming winter.

Here are some photos from the past few months (out of order of course)

Today we went rockclimbing out by the grassi lakes in Canmore

Dirtbiking with my dad

Babysitting my little cousin Saywer

Vietnam
The cu chi tunnels outside of Saigon

Thailand