Oh yeah, this guy deserved this one.

Beckie making a run for the overall.  Check out the smoke from all the trail-side fires.

Carl Swenson (27).  Fresh snow started to fall during the race making a hard course harder.

Coaches in stereo.

Sarah Konrad at the Holmenkol.

Staying healthy all season continues to be one of our major challenges.  This is a primary task for us to take on going forward.

Interesting note regarding internet comments.  Since shutting the comments down here (which we hope to put back up in the future) and putting my email up with an invitation to email me with comments I have not heard from one of the seemingly many critics that posted regularly at this site.  Why are people so eager to post on a site but so reluctant to go one-on-one?

(All photos by www.competitiveimage.us - Phil Bowen)