Cross Country Skier Early Winter 2021 Print or Digital?:Print Issue Wintertime wordsmiths

Wintertime wordsmiths

Pushing luck in Colorado's Elk Mountains

Tool User John Middendorf finds the original hooking pitons in an unexpected place

Another Layer

Cross Country Skier Early Winter 2021 Print or Digital?:Print Issue Wintertime wordsmithsOn the cover: On a near zero degree morning in late March in Crested Butte, Colorado, Xavier Fane captured this unknown skier on Mike's Mile, one of the Nordic center's most remote trails with Mt. Crested Butte behind. "To me," Fane says, "it denotes the peacefulness of a cold, calm spring morning during the time when COVID was just getting going." [Photo] Xavier Fane FEATURES The Fastest Race on Cross Country Skis Almost from the time the sprint made