Sometimes the conditions play nice at other times they are a real bear. After scouring the local avalanche forecast for some place that might be reasonably stable, I wrote off touring for an overnight adventure and decided that crust skiing was the way to go. Also I wanted to go overnight. Then it was just… More Spring Adventure #1
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Sadie Maubet Bjornsen at the 2019 Ruka World Cup. This year, Ruka Nordic announced the three race series will be held with no fans. (Photo: Nordic Focus) The local organizing club for the first cross-country Word Cup of the season, Kuusamon Erä-Veikot, announced on it’s website rukanordic.com the show will go on as planned with […] > READ MORE
The Biathlon Integrity Unit (BIU) announced on Thursday that Russian biathletes Ekaterina Glazyrina and Timofey Lapshin were provisionally suspended. According to the BIU, Lapshin has been competing for Korea since 2017. Both Lapshin and Glazyrina are accused of violating anti-doping rules (ADRV). The evidence used to hand down the provisional suspensions came from information included […] > READ MORE
The Court for Arbitration in Sport (CAS) announced Thursday that three Russian biathletes implicated for doping at the 2014 Sochi Olympics had their lifetime bans overturned. The biathletes in question, Olga Vilukhina, Yana Romanova, and Olga Zaitseva were first handed lifetime bans in 2017 by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The McLaren Report included information […] > READ MORE
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