Here's an excellent story on Erika Flowers, a recent Junior National Champion from Bozeman, Montana. It is a well written and very moving story.
(Excuse the references to “Hermit's Hill”, which is actually Hermod's Hill, named for Hermod Bjorkestol, Soldier Hollow's Norwegian course designer along with John Aalberg).
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<p><b>Mother's Day</b><br />
By JEFF WELSCH<br />
Bozeman Daily Chronicle Sports Editor</p>
<p>She wasn’t thinking about her now. Not here, not on Soldier Hollow’s notorious Hermit’s Hill, where Nordic skier dreams are made and crushed.</p>
<p>That was the way her mother had wanted it, had planned it, had prepared her even as the disease continued to gnaw away at her athletic physique. Go on with your life and live for the moment, Hedvig Rappe-Flowers had always said, and that’s what she had modeled since her daughter Erika was 5, when the word “cancer†was first murmured.</p>
<p>Read the article:<br />
http://bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2007/04/29/sports/10flowers.txt</p>
<p>Special thanks goes to Mark Nadell for the photos.</p>
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