November is up and ready on XC Ski Girl for those who are interested! http://xcskigirl04.blogspot.comThe US Team drove 3 hours from Muonio to Gallivare yesterday afternoon. We enjoyed a long sunset... and then it was dark at 2 or 3 in the afternoo...

Our week in Muonio is coming to a close. We hit the road for a "Lappish road trip" at noon.  We're headed three hours west (by van) to Gallivare, Sweden, the location of the next weekend's World Cup opener.  Now that we've gotten the first ra...

I'm about to board my second of four flights taking me from home in AK to Northern Finland, "Munio."  It's hard to see on this map but it's to the left of "Lappi" .... you may notice this is WAY above the arctic circle. Don't worry, I packed some ...

T-minus 9 days before I take off for the entire winter.... it's fun, overwhelming & exciting, all at the same time!  Here are a few pictures from the last month. Welcome to November & the race season everyone!  "Holly's Trail" on...

Two more days in October left and I made it right under the gun!  Here is the XC Ski Girl update just in time!  Check it out if your interested...... http://xcskigirl04.blogspot.comI have my last ski at Birch Hill this morning - in CLASS...

The countdown has truly begun.... in just a short 29 days I will be headed on another 30-hour travel to Europe to kick off the 2012-2013 ski season. With less than a month to go, nerves and excitement are starting to brew in my belly and the anticipati...

The countdown has truly begun.... in just a short 29 days I will be headed on another 30-hour travel to Europe to kick off the 2012-2013 ski season. With less than a month to go, nerves and excitement are starting to brew in my belly and the anticipati...

 Yep.... woke up to snow!  Saturday, September 29th!  Some folks went skiing to round out the "ski every month" challenge.  Lauren and I went to run up the South Fork of the Eagle River.  Turns out running single track in fresh...

Okay, I grew up in Washington (Seattle specifically) but moved North to Alaska shortly after I graduated from College.  Since that day, I have considered myself closely associated with Alaska if not, purely Alaskan.  Many times this has put m...

Calling all Alaska High School skiers! Check this out - First Tracks Ski Camp is the last weekend of October in Fairbanks! This will be the second annual camp and trust me, last year was AWESOME. Fairbanks weather in October is really nice and last yea...

Calling all Alaska High School skiers! Check this out - First Tracks Ski Camp is the last weekend of October in Fairbanks! This will be the second annual camp and trust me, last year was AWESOME. Fairbanks weather in October is really nice and last yea...

I wrote this article for NNF, the National Nordic Foundation regarding our training camp in Sweden.  NNF funded a large aspect of the trip, therefore making it possible for me to attend. I'm super thankful to them and to everyone that has donated ...

The first day of Swedish training camp we woke up to pouring rain. We were handed a topo map with a couple of arrows, and told that we would be going on a three-hour bog run.  Luckily, everything worked out great; they didn’t ditch...

Check it out if you're interested! http://www.xcskigirl04.blogspot.se/Post from Sweden coming shortly. I'm almost half way through the camp and it's been a great experience. Tomorrow 5x10 minutes classic roller ski intervals, threshold. PM strengt...

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 AWESOM...

I can honestly say that the past few weeks have been some of the busier in my life.... but I am not complaining but I've been able to do some wonderful, amazing things with awesome people. Rather than do a full account of everything I've failed to post...

The last two and a half weeks have been (another) whirl-wind of travel, training, testing & visits.  Here it is, in pictures: After a red-eye flight and (three) airplanes to get from ANC to SLC for my first round of US Ski Team testing I ...

So, I can finally talk about it, it's official. As is everything on the Internet, right? I'm officially a member of the 2012-2013 US Ski Team!  While I trained and traveled with the squad last year and all winter, I was a guest. Everyone made me f...