Cross Country Skier Early Winter 2021 Print or Digital?:Print Issue To capture this shot

To capture this shot

Wintertime wordsmiths

Pushing luck in Colorado's Elk Mountains

While she's been building a world for herself

it’s time to ditch the same old touring haunts and get out there—way out there

Cross Country Skier Early Winter 2021 Print or Digital?:Print Issue To capture this shotOn 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