Movin' on Down The Road

We finished up in Utah with a mass-start classic race.

Trond and Toomas, out testing kick waxes before sunrise at Soldier Hollow.

It was a klister day. Trond should have put some of that stuff on his shoes.  He slipped on the ice and landed flat on his back about three different times.

Astrid found her way onto the podium in the classic race.

Sigurd and JC in the skate race.

The boys wanted a group photo before WorldCupSchoon goes back to Europe.

And just like that, JC's off to Europe and the rest of us are off to Colorado.

On the road across the high desert. You might be surprised at all the different kinds of things you can buy in a Kum & Go.

Beaver Creek, Colorado. Gondola-riding with Tuva G, Astrid and Pascale.

Karly, Helen and Tuva B

The boys are living in comfort and eating well in their bubble.

Espen, Astrid, Magnus and Tuva B

The Tuvas and Karly

Meanwhile, the coaches were getting some interval training done.

Espen

Magnus is starting to figure out high-altitude ski racing.

Siggi had kind of a rough outing, but finished aggressively to score as many team points as possible.

He crashed into the bushes on one of the downhills and had to go back afterward to find his wristwatch in the snow.

The face-glitter-shopping options are limited here in Vail. The Elmer's glitter glue was the best we could come up with.

Thirty minutes to race time and the vibe is relaxed and ready.

The staff.

Tuva G on course.

Astrid finished second today.

Tuva B had a breakthrough race and finished third today.

Helen

Karly

Tomorrow's our last race of this road trip. Then we drive down out of the mountains to the Denver airport and fly back to Alaska. I think tomorrow will be a good one.  I'm pretty fired up to see what we can do.