Queenstown

Queenstown is basically the adventure capital of New Zealand and we go to spend 5 days there while the NZU team was racing their Australian counterparts. The Kiwis did fairly well, the women's open weight 8+, women's light weight 4x, and mens heavy weight 8+ swept the three race series. After 2 races that were not close the kiwi's mens light weight 4- admitted defeat. The light men then joined forces and stuck it to the heavy men by racing an 8+ of their own, they did quite well and actually took second! We also go some great training in on the beautiful Lake Hayes, it was quite cold in Queenstown, we often found frost on our clothes and in our hair after training and such. We also took some time to enjoy ourselves. I finally go to ski outside of the US (this skiing wasn't quite as good). We all chipped in to go on a Heli snowshoeing trip to the Remarkables and took a cruise  through Doubtful Sound in Fiordland. It was great to have a bit of change thrown into all our time spent in Duneiden.


Oh and we jumped off a bridge...