June 16, 2013 – Check out the latest news from US and Canadian National Team skiers in training for the upcoming Olympic season. Liz Stephen reports from Norway, Noah The Hoff Hoffman is in Park City at the COE (Centre of Excellence) on the treadmill, and Devon Kershaw is back in Canmore on the bike, the skis and in the sauna/river for a classic clubhouse miracle…

Sognefjell sunset... © Liz Stephen

Liz Stephen
Snow to Summer
My trip in Norway continues.  There is so much to tell, but I have been spending so much time with all of the wonderful people I have met, that it has been hard to find the time to write about it all.  So, for now, I will tell bits of the story through many pictures. The days are really light up here in Norway. This is one of the sunsets I was up to see in Sognefjell, which happened around midnight or 12:30, but it never got fully dark.

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Watching WCup races on the treadmill © Noah Hoffman

4.5 Hour Treadmill
Yesterday evening my friend (and mogul skiing World Cup winner) Heather McPhie and I babysat Alex Moore and Carly Debenham’s three little girls. We try to do that every couple of weeks when we’re home to give Alex and Carly a chance to go out. We made pizza for dinner, and the girls were great for us. I had fun hanging out with Heather.

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In the cedar box Step 1 of the classics clubhouse miracle © Devon Kershaw

Devon Kershaw
Throwback Thursdays
It’s all the rage with the kids – posting old photos of themselves from back in the late 90s to their instagram accounts. Everyone comments like “OMG computers were THAT big back then?” and such. I decided the title would work as a perfect segue to explaining my reason why this week I’m a day off the goal. I am trying to instill that nostalgic feeling you have when I (very) infrequently updated my blog. You know, those “throwback” days when I updated my blog with a frequency likened to that of Ghana’s evaluation of their GDP numbers.* Although I have a much worse excuse – mainly, none.

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