Cool Dude.... Here's Chase at his first slopestyle competition of the season (held over Christmas break at Sugarloaf). He started his run on a rail, hit a jump with a spread eagle, then a downward box and finished with a 360 off the last jump (made it all the way around, landed, then caught an edge and fell..). However he still placed 7th out of 25!

Last weekend we went to Sunday River for his first USSA Eastern Freestyle Competition. Saturday was the mogul run, lets start with the weather, minus 29 when we started out that morning at 6, warmed all the way up to minus 21 when we pulled into the parking lot and by the time the runs started, it was a balmy minus 5!!!! Anyway, prepped Chase for the fact that this was his first big competition off the mountain, so just have fun and don't worry about placing. He had a nice conservative first run and hit the second run a little harder, fell in one spot, but picked himself up and continued on through moguls that made my knees ache just looking at them and over 3 jumps. Went to the awards ceremony just to check it out and they announced Chase Duguay, fourth place!!! He and I were so excited, he kept saying if only I didn't fall, I would have been on the podium! I was so proud of him!

The next day was his slopestyle event and he had a great run, nice and clean, though conservative and he placed third (correction from earlier post, he got the bronze!) in his age group! It was a fantastic weekend and a great way to start off-mountain competitions.

We stayed at my good friends' Alice and Chris's in Bethel on Saturday night in between the two competitions and had a great time catching up, I hadn't seen them in over a year, maybe longer. Skied with Alice on Sunday (she's on a snowboard!) and just had fun all weekend long!