On Wednesday Scott and I drove up to Kelowna, B.C. to race in Western Canadian Championships, a NorAm mini-tour. The weekend holds a 1.3km skate sprint, a 3.5km classic prologue, and a 15km skate pursuit. I've been getting a few really solid weeks of t...
In Davos the ski trails ramble off in three distinct directions. Up the Fluela Valley is home to the old-school World Cup trails, the steepest of the bunch. The Dischma Valley has been renamed Sunny Valley by many and holds the hearts of more than a fe...
Last week was a great validation of what I've known about my abilities as a skier; as Torin so aptly put it after Saturday's race, to pop a top-10 result at Nationals after spending all fall fighting off mono and not training is no mean feat.After the ...
After the competitions ended and all the competitors headed for whiter pastures the MOD bid farewell to Maine for a day along the Connecticut River. Before making our way to the state line towns of Lyme, New Hampshire and South Strattford, Vermont, we...
Today marked the final day of the US National Championships in Rumford, Maine and the MODsters finish in fine form. Torin raced his way to the top of the podium once again and Sam finally put in the race we have been waiting for by being right in the ...
Yesterday marked a special day for MOD skiers. Certainly, the highlight was Torin's top spot on the podium in the classic sprint. Being a big, powerful skier the sloppy conditions did not play to his strengths but our technique emphasis this year has...
The weather was soggy and the snow dirty but Torin was all smiles after taking the National Championship Sprint Title today in Rumford, Maine. It was cool to see the newest addition to the team ski smooth and smart all day, and pull away over the final...
In Washington, we have the towering Cascades to captivate the photographer's lens. In Utah, the deserts, the mesas, and the views that stretch for miles in every direction are certainly picture-worthy. With its four distinct seasons, the small towns of...
With Christmas morning and joyful unwrapping less than 24 hours away, Brian Gregg and I spent last Friday morning pounding out a set of hard power endurance intervals on the Rendezvous ski trail under Scott's supervision. It's great to have an opportun...
With Sam's mono-i-mono battle, followed by a NorAm throwdown in British Columbia, combined with Torin's transatlantic adventures, the boys of MOD finally came together again for a good old fashioned throwdown on the trails of Sun Mountain.From the Vall...
With Christmas just around a corner, I thought this might be just the time to share a little old school skiing of Billy Koch. I vividly remember watching this for the first time at my grade school friend's Scotty house. He'd commandeered a copy and fir...
After much waiting and base training, it was time last weekend to pack the race boards and put things to the first test of the year. Rossland, British Columbia was the site last weekend of a North American Cup race, and a notable one at that. The skate...
(Ed. note: Ignore the date of this blog. Pretend it was posted one week ago...)br /br /Training here in the Methow has been going splendidly. We've been hit with the biggest snowstorm since 1996, the "Year Of The Shovel", and the trails are in fine con...
After five weeks of practicing my rough Norwegian, eating brown cheese daily, along with a journey north of the Arctic Circle to Rovaniemi Finland, along with a trip for a little city sprint action in Dusseldorf, it's been nice to get back to the Nort...
In early November, when I was able to start training again after taking a month plus off due to mono, Scott and I had a long discussion (over email, as he was already in Norway with Torin) about how best to proceed with getting me back to race shape. I...
While trolling the seeder neighborhoods in Lillihammer during their many idle hours Scott and Torin chanced upon a wayward Swiss miss hitch hiker. When our daring duo told her what they were up to in Norway she allowed as how she had never skied befor...