Anchorage Daily News

NORDIC SKIING

Anchorage ski season starts this weekend

The sixth annual Wooden Ski Classic starts Sunday at the Russian Jack Chalet and kicks off a season of community cross-country skiing races.

Ski training programs in Southcentral 2008-09

Programs for all ages

Anchorage race season 2008-09

The 2008-2009 ski season offers a bonanza of nordic competitions in Anchorage, including two national championships. Here are a few highlights:

Right on track

Now that she's the best cross-country skier in America, a two-time Olympian and winner of a World Cup race, it's easy to imagine Kikkan Randall as a little hellion on skis, anxious to jump off hills and go as fast as she could.

Videos: Cross-country ski primer

Kids are drawn to play on skis

Ski training programs in Southcentral 2008-09

Anchorage race season 2008-09

Kids are drawn to play on skis

John Brodhead, director of cross-country skiing at Craftsbury Outdoor Center in Vermont, is the father of three skiing boys ranging in age from 6 to 12.

Cordova couple among skiers in iconic films

Kevin Quinn of Cordova, along with his wife Jessica Sobolowski-Quinn is among the featured skiers in this year's annual Warren Miller adrenaline ski movie, "Children of Winter," which will be screened tonight at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts.

ROLLERSKIING

APU skiers on a roll at Kincaid meet

Skiers from Alaska Pacific University swept the top three spots in the men's and women's races on Sunday during the third annual Kincaid Stampede rollerski race.

Bittersweet day for Alaska snowboarder

Girdwood snowboarding star Callan Chythlook-Sifsof was named to the U.S. Snowboarding team on Monday, but the announcement was clouded by concerns about her health after a fall in the season-opening World Cup race.

Fairbanks will host national nordic races

Fairbanks will host the 2009 U.S. Distance Cross Country skiChampionships for the second straight year in late March, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association announced Monday.

Back on skis, Kikkan Randall wins hill climb

Two-time Olympian Kikkan Randall returned to competition on Saturday and took the measure of a star-studded roller-ski field to win the 6-kilometer Potter Hill Climb in 23:20.

Ski champ Randall faces a genetic threat

Alaska scores a coup with alpine skiing nationals

Alaska pulled off a rare championship double this week when the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association confirmed that Alyeska Resort will host the U.S. Alpine Nationals March 24-31.

City lands US nordic championships (6/10/08)

Video: 2007 Alpine Championships: Women's downhill

COLLEGE SKIING

UAA's Wunderle earns academic honor

UAA's junior nordic skier Raphael Wunderle was among 15 honorees named this week to the 2007-08 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America College Division Men's At-Large Team.

City lands US nordic championships (6/10/08)

Kincaid Park will be the center of the cross-country skiing universe for the next two winters -- as far as Americans are concerned.

COLLEGE SKIING

Glen, Trienen to join UAA's nordic skiers

Two prominent Anchorage nordic skiers will join UAA next season.

Whittier declares winter dead, but snow fans have options

Just a couple days short of the start of June, winter in Southcentral Alaska finally died on Thursday -- at least at sea level.

Nordic skiers in Anchorage get a reprieve

The mercury rose so much Wednesday morning that die-hard skier Mike Vogel knew he could only ascend Spencer Loop one last time before the slushy mess on the Hillside trail trickled downhill, ending his cross- country skiing season.

Kelly wins Slush Cup

Colby Kelly beat 50 competitors Saturday to win the Slush Cup title at Alyeska Resort.

Another blood clot sends Randall to hospital

A trip to Providence hospital for treatment of a new blood clot turned into a lengthy ordeal last week for Olympic cross-country skier Kikkan Randall.

Another blood clot sends ski champ back to hospital

Olympic cross-country skier Kikkan Randall of Anchorage returned to the hospital for more surgery Tuesday after doctors detected a new blood clot in her left leg.

PDF: Deep-vein thrombosis graphic

Jump start

At one point in her young life, Elyse Saugstad had to choose between figure skating and downhill ski racing.

Questions surround skier's death

Until deadly disaster struck on the slopes above the Alyeska Ski Resort Friday, 27-year-old John Nicoletta had been living the life of a ski bum who drew a royal flush.

VIDEO: Interview with John Nicoletta

John Nicoletta's profile