16th July 2011 at 09:19PM

Today we woke up to a perfect day; clear, cold and solid snow.

The last 2 days have been a little soft but today made up for it with some bullet proof conditions first thing, all the moisture from yesterday setting overnight to give us great training conditions today.

We carried on where we left off yesterday with juniors doing a few plough-parallels at snail pace to try and get the right movements happening at the right time. The children meanwhile jumped into the brush course to vary balance points with a dictated turn shape. Nothing spectacular going on, just hard work and great to be training hard on a decent snow-pack in great weather.

The juniors were back in the gym this afternoon while the children went on a hike / run / expedition around Bormio. The clouds then came in so our beach volleyball game was rained off this evening unfortunately!

Anyway, tomorrow will be a day off, followed by decent overnight freezing temperatures taking us right through until we depart next Saturday. If we get more days like today, i will be more than happy!

The other thing that has been great is the way the team have all settled in and gelled. There are a fair few new athletes here and everyone seems to be getting along brilliantly - awesome to see.

Ok onto the Ambition Camps for post Stelvio:

Hemel Camp 25th - 28th July - 1 PLACE LEFT. (35/36)

Ipswich Camp - 1st - 5th August - 3 PLACES LEFT. (33/36)

At Hemel we will be holding a SuperStars Tuesday, this will see some of Atomic's biggest stars come to Hemel to race with the athletes in a the SuperStars Dual Slalom. Each SuperStar will be raffled off to make up the final member of each dual slalom team before mentoring the team through the afternoons competition. With some big names lined up, we are expecting a very exciting and fun afternoon!

NEW PRIZES. More support from Snow & Rock - they have announced that they will be throwing boots bags into each and every athlete goody bag! Going to need to come up with some more prize categories soon as they will also be chucking some DIANESE back supports into the prizes pot for the end of the week.

Wow, this post is already way way too long, time for bed!

Night.