August 14, 2013 – Check out the latest from the Hoff at the Snow Farm where the US and Canadian teams are training on snow and lovin’ it plus the famous desert; and Jessie Diggins ventures north to Thunder Bay and spends time at her Grandparents camp plus some Ninja time with her friend Danielle. Once again we’ve got some great Tweets etc. to start you off from Holly Brooks, Kikkan Randall, Dasha Gaiazova, Kirstin Stoermer-Stiera and Simi Hamilton…

Yo Holly Brooks Eagle Glacier Photo album here.
Kikkan Randall’s New York news
Dasha Gaiazova’s view…hello news
Kirstin Stoermer-Stiera shares her view too here.
Simi Hamilton’s day gets shattered… here.

Noah Hoffman
Snow Farm Day One
My teammate Andy Newell and I went for a two hour skate ski after arriving here at the Snow Farm in New Zealand yesterday afternoon. The tracks weren’t groomed yesterday so the snow was choppy and hard to stand on. The snow here is very different from what I experienced on the glacier in Alaska last week. The temperatures here are right around freezing. The snow is icy and glazed. Then it started to snow a little bit while we were skiing. This is my fourth year in a row at the Snow Farm. This is the best off-season training location I’ve ever been to because the living is so easy and the snow and conditions are very representative of what we see often in the winter. Plus the desserts here are outstanding.

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Jessie Diggins
Thunder Bay camp time
Almost every summer of my life, I’ve spent some time up in Thunder Bay at the camp. My Grandparents on my Dad’s side have had the camp for a long time, and it’s one of my favorite places to be! I love pretty much everything about the camp – how up on Silver Beach, it’s called a camp instead of a cabin, how it’s right on Lake Superior, how once you’re there you can bike, walk or canoe to anywhere you need to go, how nice everyone is, how the camp is often heated by a fire, how a little creek runs between my Nana’s two camps.