Life on the Arctic Ice and setting the course

" I'm at the top of the world looking down on creation...."
They had the cutest husky team stationed at the camp. Raphael, the trainer gave an amazing talk when we were snowed in one day....later.

We slept 10 to a tent.




The amateurs and...... the pros
David Attenborough was there with a BBC team heading to the geographic north pole to film.
Some people do things to change the way we think about our world. And then there was us....




We tromped around in the snow for hours setting up a marathon course.



See how far down Richard (our fearless leader) is sinking! And that was before a night of 50k winds which caused even even more snowdrifts.
I kid you not. This was what the terrain was like. Your Wednesday night track workouts do not prepare you for this.

And of course, no race is complete without a banner at the Start/Finish line. Now this is a drill that the Alpental ski team could use to help set up those slalom courses every weekend.