Kongsberger Ski Club

The Sovereign2SilverStar race is on my want list, so when I looked at the results this year and saw that new KSC member Emily Stitt finished the skate race on Saturday as the first American female and sixth female overall, behind a handful of Canadian national team women (after spending the prior week backcountry skiing and camping, a whole new approach to tapering for a race), and then the classic race on Sunday as the eleventh female, right behind Laura McCabe, I determined to ask her for a race report for the blog.  photo: Vanessa Garrison But several people said, yeah, no, that’s not a good idea; she is totally buried in her day job as an intern and now a resident in anesthesia at the UW, and would not exactly welcome that request. Then I saw that she was the first female finisher in the Nordic ski leg at last month’s Ski to Sea, seventh overall, and I knew I had to find a way to hear her story. Emily's photo of her fun team So we met last week for an after-work gelato and an i...

Rachel's photo Joy's photo What kind of person does this, throwing diapers and ironing boards and all kinds of assorted gross things out into the forest? And what kind of person gives up their Sunday to head out to the Cabin Creek snow-park and pick up all that crap, making one small corner of this messy world a nicer place? I know the answer to the second question: KSC stalwarts!  Here are some reports and photos from the clean-up day: Suzanne: Was it May 18th or January 18th?? Despite snow, sleet, rain and mud, Kongsbergers showed up en masse for the annual spring interchange/parking lot/stadium clean-up. Neither dirty diapers nor rusty chains nor tiny bits of goo packets, (nor mattresses!!) escaped the eyes and hands of the picker-uppers. A recycling brigade rescued glass bottles and aluminum cans from the general trash bags. A group of he-men (I didn’t notice any she-women among them this time [ed. note: Don points out that Esther was hucking with the best of them!]) took c...