Are you kidding me I always write these all the time!

Right now I’ve been home for almost a month, just chilling and doing school like a normal person! The school aspect has been a big part of the no blogs. This spring my classes are a bit harder than I’ve done with travel, but they’ve been fun to put my energy into. I’ll take ya back a little ways into the end of the racing season…

Oslo

Havard Moseby took Ben, Scott, and I on a nice loop around Nordmarka, above Oslo, one of the days in the week before Holmenkollen. We skied some lakes and little trails, and stopped for a bun at one of the little cabin restaurants.

My mom and sister came to Oslo to watch Holmenkollen! Such a fun World Cup for them to do as their first time watching me race a European world cup. The crowds and weather was great and it’s just generally a cool thing to experience.

Then the sprinters went to Drammen for the Tuesday city sprint, and the distance skiers went straight to Falun.

squad dripped out in the $80 nike gore tex kicks

Then I got sick right before the Falun race which was really sad, but at least JC got sick the same day so we had each other. Never wish for a teammate to get sick but if there’s ever a time it’s nice when they get sick with you so you don’t have to be sick AND alone.

Then the sprinters got to do another city sprint field trip, this time to Talinn, Estonia, while the distance skiers camped out in Lahti. They found a cool little coffee shop and got to do another cool midweek/nighttime race with a great atmosphere. Then we finished it off in Lahti, celebrated Ben as the green bib winner, and had a little party!

Then we went home and didn’t worry so much about getting sick anymore!

And JC had to try the Baked Beans in London

Spring in Alaska tends to be pretty great, and this one has been consistent with that. Some good weather, some bad, and tons of fun events.

I also got a sick bike from Intense that I’m psyched to race on a bit this summer!

NordicX! Epitome great spring event. Skicross course on a little aline hill with a big jump, great music, and tons of cool prizes! Great place to work on the skills too.

Bridge building in Structural Analysis. This was a fun project, it’ll get cut out of a sheet of steel next week and get tested. I’ve got roughly a year more work until I can graduate.

Alyeska Hill Climb with the great Lin Hinderman. Girdwood trails are so good and the ski club takes great care of them! This one wasn’t quite as much fun as NordicX…

Hitting some crust and singetracks in Far North Bicentennial Park

Alyeska alpine skiing on slush cup weekend

2 more weeks of kickin it around here then I’ll be done with school and kickin it in Bend, Oregon at the first US Ski Team camp of the year. Cheers to spring!