Why does this make me so happy? Why do fire-singed spruce trees and wind-swept fields of snow rend my heart the way they do? What makes thes...

At the pre-race meeting, Beat joked that our race numbers were actually the times we were expected to finish within. His race number was 47....

The trip to the starting line was mostly a quiet one. Ed, who was both the race co-director and a participating skier, was at the wheel of h...