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Over the past couple years, the Swiss team has turned into a legit contender on the men’s side. 2008-2009 Crystal Globe winner Dario Cologna is one of the best young skiers in the world, but the big changes have come from teammates Curdin Perla and Toni Livers who have improved steadily. On the women’s side, [...]

div style="text-align: center;"br //divdiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"IT'S TIME TO SKI!!/span/spanbr //divdiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"br //span/diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TM8jHuPcsaI/AAAAAAAAAdk/tLk9u-bd5SM/s1600/DSCN0622.JPG"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TM8jHuPcsaI/AAAAAAAAAdk/tLk9u-bd5SM/s320/DSCN0622.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534681082640511394" //abr /div style="text-align: left;"The past two days APU has been making the 1 hr drive up to Hatchers Pass for some amazing skiing! Tracks have been great, the temperatures low, and spirits high. Both skate and classic tracks are exceptional considering the couple of inches of snow pack on the road. Surprisingly enough, no rocks or pavement are showing (with exception to one corner). br //divdivdiv style="text-align: center;"div style="text-align: left;"br //divspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"div style="text-align: center;"br //divspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TM8i9s-FcBI/AAAAAAAAAdc/qhSN-dIleaE/s1600/DSCN0617.JPG"img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TM8i9s-FcBI/AAAAAAAAAdc/qhSN-dIleaE/s320/DSCN0617.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534680910500556818" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " //a/spanPerfect tracks!/spanbr //divdiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"br //span/diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TM8iwR2VnSI/AAAAAAAAAdM/5r6qaIxO6is/s1600/DSCN0613.JPG"img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TM8iwR2VnSI/AAAAAAAAAdM/5r6qaIxO6is/s320/DSCN0613.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534680679882005794" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " //adiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "Dark and cold- Gretta Anderson is still pumped to get started!/spanbr //divdiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"br //span/diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TM8ii6_VOeI/AAAAAAAAAc8/4VD-WTz2cOM/s1600/DSC06038.JPG"img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TM8ii6_VOeI/AAAAAAAAAc8/4VD-WTz2cOM/s320/DSC06038.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534680450407414242" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " //adiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "Lots of car and people traffic on the trails- have to watch out :)/spanbr //divdivdivbr //divdivOur first day up there, all the town teams were out there, so I got to ski some laps with my brother who is now skiing for University of Alaska- fun, fun!!/divdivbr //diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TM8jdZ1Jc7I/AAAAAAAAAd0/BgpK7Kiwh7k/s1600/1.jpg"img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TM8jdZ1Jc7I/AAAAAAAAAd0/BgpK7Kiwh7k/s320/1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534681455118611378" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 239px; " //adiv /diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TM8ipiK333I/AAAAAAAAAdE/HnJZzWuVj1E/s1600/DSC06043.JPG"img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TM8ipiK333I/AAAAAAAAAdE/HnJZzWuVj1E/s320/DSC06043.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534680564004020082" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " //adivNothing like early season skiing in Alaska. Hopefully the snow hits town soon so we can be skiing here.!br //divdivdiv style="text-align: left;"br //diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TM8jXEn4CTI/AAAAAAAAAds/L6ymmzF0qWs/s1600/DSCN0626.JPG"img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TM8jXEn4CTI/AAAAAAAAAds/L6ymmzF0qWs/s320/DSCN0626.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534681346346584370" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " //adiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"Morgan and I high on Alaskan Life/span/divdiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"br //span/diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TM8i2MNsdAI/AAAAAAAAAdU/oKR-tLQsjUk/s1600/DSCN0615.JPG"img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TM8i2MNsdAI/AAAAAAAAAdU/oKR-tLQsjUk/s320/DSCN0615.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534680781448573954" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 168px; " //adiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "Gretta Anderson and I at the start of the cold morning/span/divdivbr //divdivYesterday was Halloween, so a couple of us got dressed up for our OD... FUN FUN!/divdiv style="text-align: left;"br //diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TM8kDx6U-OI/AAAAAAAAAeM/Y487knHtdcs/s1600/halloween+5.jpg"img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TM8kDx6U-OI/AAAAAAAAAeM/Y487knHtdcs/s320/halloween+5.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534682114417817826" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " //adiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"2.5 hr. Halloween Ski- ladies working hard but still having fun!/span/divdiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"br //span/divdiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"Below: Morgan, Holly, me, Kikkan and Katie getting after it :)/span/divdiva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TM8jr0W-qKI/AAAAAAAAAd8/DL5GtnW-Voo/s1600/halloween+4.jpg"img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TM8jr0W-qKI/AAAAAAAAAd8/DL5GtnW-Voo/s320/halloween+4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534681702758000802" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px; " //a/div/div/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2018521813175454198-2675601497111829813?l=sadiebjornsen.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

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I am proud to announce that Northern Fruit Company will continue as my financial sponsor for the 2010-2011 racing season! I feel honored to represent a company that promotes health and encourages community development as much as Northern. The Northern...

I am proud to announce that Northern Fruit Company will continue as my financial sponsor for the 2010-2011 racing season! I feel honored to represent a company that promotes health and encourages community development as much as Northern. The Northern...

I am proud to announce that Northern Fruit Company will continue as my financial sponsor for the 2010-2011 racing season! I feel honored to represent a company that promotes health and encourages community development as much as Northern. The Northern...

I am proud to announce that Northern Fruit Company will continue as my financial sponsor for the 2010-2011 racing season! I feel honored to represent a company that promotes health and encourages community development as much as Northern. The Northern...

I am proud to announce that Northern Fruit Company will continue as my financial sponsor for the 2010-2011 racing season! I feel honored to represent a company that promotes health and encourages community development as much as Northern. The Northern...

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This is part one in a short series of season preview posts on USST athletes in which I’ll review each skier’s results to date and make some guesses about how they’ll fare in the upcoming season.  I don’t have any special insight into the future beyond my database of past race results, and I certainly [...] Related posts:

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3. Most Improved: Women’s Distance

As some of you may know, my boyfriend and fellow National Team member Zach Hall is gluten intolerant. For those who don't know, gluten intolerance is, very basically, an inability to break down the protein gluten (found in rye, wheat and barley). Zac...

The Czech team has been led by one man the past 5 years and his name is Lukas Bauer. After the retirement of Katerina Neumanova, the women have not found an athlete that can lead them to greatness. While the men’s team finished in 9th with 1191 points (1021 from Bauer), the women only finished [...]

It was a very happy halloween up at Hatcher Pass this morning! HBrooks, Bjornsenator, Kikkanimal, Smythski and Ronski. Goofy girls psyched to have just done a 2.5hr SKI!Thanks to Mark for the great grooming (An H.Brooks pic from yesterday).The "Thing with Wings" Randall flying on her 1 pole drill. We all can't wait to fly, really. The racing season is less than a month away. Bring it on!

It was a very happy halloween up at Hatcher Pass this morning! HBrooks, Bjornsenator, Kikkanimal, Smythski and Ronski. Goofy girls psyched to have just done a 2.5hr SKI!Thanks to Mark for the great grooming (An H.Brooks pic from yesterday).The "Thing with Wings" Randall flying on her 1 pole drill. We all can't wait to fly, really. The racing season is less than a month away. Bring it on!