Word: klaussen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard ski team captain Eric Klaussen fell yesterday in the first run of the giant slalom at the NCAA's championships held at Park City, Utah. Klaussen, seeded 28th in the country, was hampered by ruts that developed in the soft Western snow...
...Klaussen's life has revolved around the steep slopes...
...traveled over one hundred miles by skateboard... We used to drive to the top of Donner Summit and come all the way down on our skateboards... We would do it at night on those four or five days near the full moon." For Klaussen mountain sports were a habitual, day-to-day activity, not relished as a special weekend treat...
...Klaussen reveals his western spirit in describing his path to the 1977 Junior Nationals: "I hadn't raced in quite a while and just decided to race with some of my friends." He not only raced--he devastated the competition. As a result, he made the Rocky Mountain Ski Team...
...Once Klaussen was caught in a large avalanche while skiing at Squaw Valley. He was wrapped around a tree and covered by a snow dune. It then became one of his pastimes to create small avalanches, catch them, and ski through them. Possibly, Klaussen's attraction for the slopes may bring him back to those same California snow fields to initiate avalanche surfing as a sport. ABC Wide World of Sports...