Update…. in Pictures

As always, the last couple of weeks have been busy….. I spent an awesome week on Eagle Glacier with my APU teammates. This was my second camp on the summer and after a 9-hour weather delay in Girdwood due to bad weather, it turned out to be an AWESOME camp. I logged another big-hour week and feel that I make some technical improvements.  Following the glacier camp, Rob and I along with other Anchorage-area Olympians were invited out to GCI’s Agulowok Retreat in Northwest Alaska.  We flew to Dillingham and took a Grumin Goose out to the lodge.  We had one gorgeous day but otherwise, it rained buckets.  We got to see the bears in Katmai National Park at Brooks Camp (!) I caught my first Rainbow, and we went skeet shooting. (I hit nothing with affirms that I should remain a cross country skier rather than switch to biathlon!)  Now, as I write this, we are in Sweden, ready to start a joint camp with the Swedish National team girls. I’m super pumped to have some new training partners and work really hard over the next week, plus. It was a difficult 30+ hours of travel to get here from Alaska but I’m sure it will be well worth it!  Thanks a ton to NNF, the National Nordic Foundation for helping fund this training camp! Read on…… 

While being grounded on the runway in Girdwood, we checked out this sky crane. This thing cost $50/second to run!!! WOW! 

APU girl’s team, L4 skate intervals

After the hard glacier effort Rob and I caught some rare quality time together….. 

Here is the Goose that we flew out to the lodge in.  This plane is from 1942 and it lands in the water, on it’s belly.  Water splashes up, almost beyond the windows and you momentarily think you’re going to sink….