Dean Woodbeck shares this photo of the Portage Glacier, about an hour south of Anchorage, Alaska, where he is attending the Junior Olympics cross-country ski competition. (Photo © Dean Woodbeck. Reprinted with permission from his blog, Keweenaw Tales.)ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Dean Woodbeck of Keweenawtrails.com has a new blog, Keweenaw Tales, with day-by-day reports from the Junior Olympics cross-country ski competition taking place this week at Kincaid Park in Anchorage, Alaska.
Woodbeck, his wife Jan Woodbeck and Teresa Shoup are the parental contingency accompanying five skiers from the Copper Country Ski Tigers race team who have qualified -- Kai Sharp, Jay Woodbeck, Olivia Orr, Madelaine Shoup and Ruth Oppliger -- as well as Ski Tigers alumnus Mariah Featherly.
Dean reports on his blog that the races are expected to go as scheduled despite rather warm temperatures. Sunday's high was in the 40s and the next few days may be in the mid-30s. Monday was sprint day, the first day of the competition, held in spite temperatures as high as 40 in the afternoon.
Referring to Monday's competition, Dean notes, "Among our locals, Christina Mishica came closest to moving to the next round. She placed 27th in qualifying among the OJs and 24 moved on to the quarterfinals."
Since Tuesday was a training day, the three parents took advantage of free time to ski at the Portage Glacier. Read the account of this and see more of Dean's photos on his blog, http://keweenawtrails.blogspot.com/
See also Dean Woodbeck's reports of the race on crosscountryskier.com.
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