August 2013

Back in my final years of high school, I did a fair amount of skiing with boys. It was a fun challenge to hop into intervals with them, and occasionally, get to hop in a race with them. Though it seemed a weird coincidence that the race I did with…

As I write this, I’m slumped on the floor of my bedroom, with my teammates in various states of consciousness sprawled throughout the house, though most made it to their beds. We just got back from our annual 100km ski, and after 6 hours out in the hot sun skiing up and…

What a week! I came back to the east coast after bopping around from one cabin to another, and jumped right into the BKL and SMS junior summer camps being held at the school. Since I caught a cold, I wasn’t able to do quite as much training and helping…

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…

The last few days I had in Alaska were pretty awesome, and getting to go to Halibut Cove was such a cool experience! It felt surreal because it was a 24 hour adventure, and “normal” people don’t just fly in to the cabin for a night and zip off the…

After we got down from the glacier, we had a week of easy recovery training. No better time to do some adventuring and have a girls camping trip! The USST girls plus Astrid went to Holly Brook’s cabin down in Hope, and it was an awesome trip. Although you can…

The last three weeks have been so amazing, I’m almost speechless. However, since this is a blog, I had to find some words to describe what I’ve been up to in Alaska. And since so many adventures happened up here, I’ve split this post into three parts; the glacier, Hope,…