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"90 Days Til Snow' DocumentaryUNH home pageWe chat with Coach MacDowell about how his stops at Boulder Nordic Sport, Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation, Northern Michigan, NYSEF and elsewhere have impacted the program he's building at the University of New Hampshire. We deep-dive last season — which included 2 All American performances at nationals — and look ahead to the next. Support the Seder-Skier by clicking HERE

Fresh off hosting a superb 50th-annual Vail Hill Climb, we sit down with Wyatt Smith to hear how he ended up in his role at the VRD, his love-hate relationship with Nordic skiing, and what dream-events he's cookin' up for the future!

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Silverthorne local and future Colby College skier James Sowers hops on the podcast to talk about the latest chapter in his ski story.

Three parts to the show today!1. First 30 min - we talk about Mt. Blue Sky Hill Climb, Tour de France, and Tom Danielson's controversial doping comments2. Jim Galanes joins to discuss USBA/USSS Strategic Alliance3. We read off the FAQs on the Strategic Alliance page

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Vail Daily feature click HEREIf you ask any of Greg Birk’s friends, they’ll probably say something similar: The man simply loves running.“More than anyone else I’ve ever met,” stated Wyatt Smith. The Vail Recreation District race director admitted the Vail Hill Climb’s 50th anniversary wouldn’t have been acknowledged if not for Birk.“There was a period where both the recreation district and newspapers got confused with the anniversary,” Smith continued. “Identifying that this year is the 50th wouldn’t be possible without his love of this race.”“No one loves the hill climb more than Greg Birk does,” added longtime Eagle County resident Brendan White, one of several athletes who migrated to the mountains from the Midwest because of Birk. “Certainly no one has come close to traveling as many miles each year to run it.”Whether he was living in Breckenridge, Indiana, Tennessee, Texas or Switzerland, Birk almost always found a way back to Vail for the iconic uphill. Along the way, he’s collected all of the shirts between 1991 and 2026 and several from prior editions, too. All are currently on display as part of a hill climb exhibit running the next couple of weeks at the Colorado Snowsports Museum. Birk’s obsession with the race — and running in general — is directly linked to his appreciation for what it’s taught him and where it’s brought him.