2016-2017 Racing Teams
Photo Gallery
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| Photos by: Brian Johnson |
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A
good Sunday. Lezley was the most improved lady of the week, and
scored big when she won the door prize. Mandy was the
fastest lady skier of the week, and Scott was the most improved male of
the week.
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Our
president Jim Habeck, showing very good form around the gate. You
can tell he is really moving by looking at the cloud of snow still in
the air behind his skis.
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This
is Alice Madden arranging our team for the team picture. Besides
racing, she works as a commercial photographer. When she had the
team arranged just right she took the official photograph, and then
held everybody in place to give Brian an opportunity |
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Sandy
Powell is the fastest racer on the Sunday team. She’s
showing perfect form and traveling a tiny bit over 50 miles an hour.
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When
Andrea's knees gave out on her and she couldn't race with us, Alyson
handed down her co-captain duties to Ryan Long, and took over as
captain. As you can see by the smile on her face, she truly
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This
is the senior member of our Wednesday team, Torch Dorn. He might
be 79 years old, but he hasn't slowed down, showing very good form and
very good speed rounding the Gates. He's using the Ted Ligety
style of skiing, dragging your uphill pole on the snow as you're making
your turn. |
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The
Sunday Who-Has decided to do something fun for their team
picture. The whole League held their breath while they tried to
make a pyramid.
| | And they Did It!!! | | Katie Connolly fine tuning her form in preparation for her trip to Cortina, Italy. |
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Elliot
Swiss is a very quiet member of our team, but one who works very
hard. In the morning he races with the Brewskis team and was
their most improved racer of the year. | | Grant
Lambert is a new member of our team this year, and we are thankful to
have him. You can see from his form that he wastes no time going
down the Hill.
| | See
the big smile on Paul’s face? That’s before he found out how much
a pair of matching mother- daughter ski boots was going to cost him.
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Kim’s cutting the gate mighty close... it looks like she might not make it.
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| | The Foggy Goggles receiving their awards for the week's race.
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Gene Kath showing the form that has led him to several National championships.
| | Lezley receiving her award for being the most improved racer on our team.
| | John
Kasprick was traveling a little over 50 miles an hour when this picture
was taken. He’s the fastest racer on our Wednesday team. A
few years ago the Buck Hill pacesetter was clocked at 54 miles an hour
by a radar gun. John's times today are 1 to 2 seconds faster than
that pacesetter, so you can be sure he's traveling well over 50 miles
an hour.
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Because
of the weeks' postponement, this is our entire team for the last
race. Everyone else (with the exception of Katie Connolly)
were on the ULLR ski trip. Katie and Drew were in Cortina.
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Brian has composed, as best he can, something good to say about
everybody, he gives all the copy and a large bottle of Chardonnay to
his friend and hiking partner Mary Bonato. Mary's a retired
English teacher, and corrects all of blunder Brian's Bad English.
This picture is of Mary on the left, then Brian, Brian's granddaughter
Melissa, and taking the selfie is Brian's grand son-in-law Dr.
Mike. We’re all getting ready to walk over to Lake Harriet for
the 5K reindeer run.
Thank you Mary for all your help
Brian
| | When
they have the ULLR celebration in Breckenridge, they always drink an
ULLR toast from a very long set of skis all attached together.
One of the teams brought the custom back to Minnesota, and we all
celebrated after the last race. From left to right are: Tom
Chapen (one of our club founders going back to 1947/48), next an
unknown gentleman, then we have John Kasprick and Kin Taraschi.
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