Skiing

ROLLERSKIING

APU skiers on a roll at Kincaid meet

Skiers from Alaska Pacific University swept the top three spots in the men's and women's races on Sunday during the third annual Kincaid Stampede rollerski race.

Bittersweet day for Alaska snowboarder

Girdwood snowboarding star Callan Chythlook-Sifsof was named to the U.S. Snowboarding team on Monday, but the announcement was clouded by concerns about her health after a fall in the season-opening World Cup race.

Fairbanks will host national nordic races

Fairbanks will host the 2009 U.S. Distance Cross Country skiChampionships for the second straight year in late March, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association announced Monday.

Back on skis, Kikkan Randall wins hill climb

Two-time Olympian Kikkan Randall returned to competition on Saturday and took the measure of a star-studded roller-ski field to win the 6-kilometer Potter Hill Climb in 23:20.

Ski champ Randall faces a genetic threat

Alaska scores a coup with alpine skiing nationals

Alaska pulled off a rare championship double this week when the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association confirmed that Alyeska Resort will host the U.S. Alpine Nationals March 24-31.

City lands US nordic championships (6/10/08)

Video: 2007 Alpine Championships: Women's downhill

COLLEGE SKIING

UAA's Wunderle earns academic honor

UAA's junior nordic skier Raphael Wunderle was among 15 honorees named this week to the 2007-08 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America College Division Men's At-Large Team.

City lands US nordic championships (6/10/08)

Kincaid Park will be the center of the cross-country skiing universe for the next two winters -- as far as Americans are concerned.

COLLEGE SKIING

Glen, Trienen to join UAA's nordic skiers

Two prominent Anchorage nordic skiers will join UAA next season.

Whittier declares winter dead, but snow fans have options

Just a couple days short of the start of June, winter in Southcentral Alaska finally died on Thursday -- at least at sea level.

Nordic skiers in Anchorage get a reprieve

The mercury rose so much Wednesday morning that die-hard skier Mike Vogel knew he could only ascend Spencer Loop one last time before the slushy mess on the Hillside trail trickled downhill, ending his cross- country skiing season.

Kelly wins Slush Cup

Colby Kelly beat 50 competitors Saturday to win the Slush Cup title at Alyeska Resort.

Another blood clot sends Randall to hospital

A trip to Providence hospital for treatment of a new blood clot turned into a lengthy ordeal last week for Olympic cross-country skier Kikkan Randall.

Another blood clot sends ski champ back to hospital

Olympic cross-country skier Kikkan Randall of Anchorage returned to the hospital for more surgery Tuesday after doctors detected a new blood clot in her left leg.

PDF: Deep-vein thrombosis graphic

Jump start

At one point in her young life, Elyse Saugstad had to choose between figure skating and downhill ski racing.

Questions surround skier's death

Until deadly disaster struck on the slopes above the Alyeska Ski Resort Friday, 27-year-old John Nicoletta had been living the life of a ski bum who drew a royal flush.

VIDEO: Interview with John Nicoletta

John Nicoletta's profile

Skier dies on Alyeska slopes

On a postcard perfect April day at the Alyeska Resort in Girdwood on Friday, 27-year-old extreme skier John Nicoletta from Colorado tried to go big off a band of rock called the Headwall on the first day of the 2008 Subaru Freeskiing World Championships.

VIDEO: Interview with John Nicoletta

John Nicoletta's profile

Free skier at Alyeska dies in fall onto rocks

A skier killed while competing in the U.S. Freeskiing Championships at the Alyeska Resort in Girdwood Friday afternoon went off a steep embankment and fell about 100 feet onto rocks, Alaska State Troopers said.

John Nicoletta's profile

Girdwood skier ready to show extreme moves

Jake Young isn't suffering any adrenaline shortage.

Ski champ Randall faces a genetic threat

The blood clot that threatened the life of World Cup skier Kikkan Randall may have been caused by a hereditary condition.

PDF: Read about Factor V Leiden in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association

Blood clots send skiing champ Randall into hospital

CRAIG MEDRED

Dangerous moves

Someone please explain the disconnect here: On the one hand, the ski industry is now encouraging all skiers to wear helmets just in case, for safety, because you never know what could happen on the slopes, yadda, yadda, yadda.

SNOWBOARDING

Kingwill, Dewey win finals

Laura Dewey and Rob Kingwill won the North Face Masters big mountain snowboarding competition at Alyeska Resort on Monday.