From the FasterSkier archive — posts syndicated from athletes’ and coaches’ own blogs between 2004 and 2012, kept online as published. Current coverage is at fasterskier.com.

“The cross country trails in Tanana start and finish at the dump, so you tend to find some…”

““The cross country trails in Tanana start and finish at the dump, so you tend to find some interesting and useful items…this moose leg was on the side of the penalty loop/warmup area and we scrounged a discarded ironing table to prop up one of the biathlon targets.””br/br/ – em Rachel Steer on the photos from last weekend’s Western Interior Ski Association ski and biathlon championships in the village of Tanana, AK. (80,000 sq miles, no roads)/em