by Matias Saari | Mar 13, 2023 | Cover Story, Nordic Skiing
The Rocky Mountain and New England teams got off to a hot start on a chilly day Monday at the U.S.Cross Country Ski Junior National Championships in Fairbanks. While those teams won a pair of titles in the six 7.5-kilometer interval-start classical technique races,...
by Matias Saari | Mar 9, 2023 | Nordic Skiing, UAF
Joe Davies of the Alaska Nanooks left no doubt he’s an NCAA Ski Champion. Davies, earned the third NCAA championship in UAF Nordic skiing history, winning the 10-kilometer interval-start race on Thursday morning in Lake Placid, N.Y. Davies’ dominating time of 22...
by Matias Saari | Mar 9, 2023 | Adventure, Bikepacking, Cover Story, Nordic Skiing, Running
Kinsey Loan struggled to stay warm as she pushed her fat bike with two flat tires on the Yentna River with the temperature around 25 below zero. Her rookie run in the Iditarod Trail Invitational, a 300-plus mile human-powered event from Knik to McGrath, had barely...
by Matias Saari | Feb 21, 2023 | Adventure, Cover Story, Cycling, Nordic Skiing
With excruciatingly soft trails slowing fat bikers at Saturday’s Susitna 100, Nicolas Baudin wasn’t sure he was ever going to catch and pass skier Chet Fehrmann as he floated atop the bounty of snow. “There is nothing more frustrating for a biker to be following a...
by Matias Saari | Feb 9, 2023 | Cover Story, Sled Dog Racing
Musher Brent Sass is an outlier: no matter the temperature, he prefers to camp along the trail and eschew the comfort of checkpoints. The trail is where Sass is most comfortable and feels his dogs get the best rest, so unless mandatory rest is required at a checkpoint...