Ice, snow, rain and wind; the NCO doesn't back off and leaves glacier last...

Today's plan was to freeski before lunch and then go out and train Slalom gates in the PM. Although it was really windy, we had 5 to 6 freeruns on hard glacier snow before we got in. After a nice lunch in the confort of the ski lodge lower on the mountain, we got back out to stick some SL poles in the ice... Once at the top of our lane, we realized that we had no choice to change our plans. It was a total white out, with unbelievably strong winds carrying snow and ice. All the Europeans were gone home at this point. Our call was to freeski a little more. We got tossed right and left by the winds and the snow hitting our faces felt like we were being sandblasted. 

That being said, the hard snow made up for some pretty damn good skiing from the FIS athletes! Way to go, NCO athletes are rough and tough!