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APU’s Elite Team Completes 2nd Glacier Camp

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Valaas and Bart Dengel enjoy a moment of sunshine. ©Jeff Ellis
A much earned flight down as the glacier camp ends on June 30th. ©Jeff Ellis
Back to summer and a much needed week of recovery. ©Jeff Ellis
A trailway to the clouds. ©Jeff Ellis
Traffic jam at rope-up section. Laura Valaas does her best Rocky pose. ©Jeff Ellis
For safety, the team members wait in line to rope up through a difficult snow section. ©Jeff Ellis
APU's junior and AK-Elite team athletes pause for team picture. Juniors have just completed their camp with a hike down, as the AK-Elite skiers begin theirs with a hike up. ©Jeff Ellis
Green landscape frames the beginning of the trek that will see the team move above the tree line and back into a winter landscape. ©Jeff Ellis
July 4, 2008 – (Anchorage, AK) – Just a short two and a half weeks after their first glacier camp of the season, Alaska Pacific University’s (APU) AK-Elite team headed back up to the Lowell Thomas Training Center for a mini-four day camp. The training facility is located just 45 minutes south of Anchorage, on the edge of a glacier bowl known as Eagle Glacier. The AK-Elite team members split the week with APU’s junior program who completed their first camp of the summer.

A colder than average spring and early summer have made for incredible snow conditions. However, it was the weather that resulted in the AK-Elite team hiking up to the glacier, an ascent of approximately 5,000 ft. (1500m). High winds and low cloud made the usual 10 minute helicopter ride a no-go. The APU AK- Elite team will return to Eagle glacier in two weeks with the APU College Ski Team athletes.





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