Spring Series Stories

3.30.02

My Experience at the US Ski Team Spring Series

By Pavel Sotskov

            As we arrived at Bolton Valley on Saturday the parking lot was already full of “sponsor vans” and reps. Inside, there were people speaking French, Russian and I think Czech. Everyone was waxing with the best Cera F and other assorted high flouro wax, So I decided to go outside, and saw many of the US ski team members Lazily walking around, so I was like this is OK, they can’t be that good. I was wrong. I raced first for the men, so I could watch all of the Masters starting, and let me tell you, they were fast. Chris Freeman didn’t even bother switching to V1 as he blew past us up the climbs on the mountain part of the course! But it was still fun even though most of them skied faster loops while doing 2 then me, and I only did one! The experience of watching an international race is still thrilling.