Bubbles

Villard de Lans, France was the place to be on July 7 for the Skiwolf social event of the year.  The wedding of Marine Dusser and Erik Bjornsen was on the docket. Current and former Seawolves came from 'round the world to be a part of it.  Everyone was having way too much fun to organize a Seawolf group photo, but maybe it's better we didn't anyway. D tells me that if you're always taking photos of everything, you're not giving your memory and imagination a chance to do what they're meant to do. So here's a fun mental exercise that you can try at home. In the scene provided below (the site of Marine and Erik's wedding reception, with Marine's old high school in the distant center background), imagine a group photo containing the Seawolves described in the caption below.

Back row, left to right: Synnøve Bruland, Anna Berecz, Niko Harmanen, Adam Verrier, Viktor Brännmark, Lukas Ebner, Lasse Mølgaard-Nielsen, Theresia Schurr (not a UAA Seawolf, but a UAF Nanook, so close enough). Front row: Sadie Bjornsen, Étienne Richard, Karina Smith, Erik Bjornsen, Marine Dusser, Martin Kapso, and Tracen Knopp.

Here's the scene outside the church in the middle of the street downtown. All those skis are Simon Fourcade's race skis. I don't think he knew they were being used for this purpose.

Here's an interesting one: Lukas, Synnøve, Viktor... What is on Lasse's mind? What is Erik trying to tell me with his hand signals?

At least two of the people in this photo have been on the UAA Ski Team.  Possibly three. I don't know.