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...Eric Klaussen should not be forced to live on the horizontal plane. The captain of the ski team is more comfortable on the inclines, whether it be climbing El Capitan or Yosemite's Half Dome, skiing Squaw Valley or Tuckerman's ravine, or even hurtling down the Rockies on a skateboard...
...mountain landscapes on his bedroom walls, a snow-capped peak that towers next to his high school in Colorado and remarks how "disappointed" he was when he saw what the East had to offer. "There aren't really any mountains big enough for a downhill, remarks Klaussen. But this week Klaussen returns to the Rockies for his first collegiate race there in four years, the NCAA's at Park City, Utah...
...Klaussen is the first Harvard skier to qualify for both the NCAA slalom and giant slalom events since demi-god Ben Steele did it in 1973. Last year, Klaussen, the only Harvard contender and seeded a dead last, barely qualified for the giant slalom. Although he was the 57th man to leave the gate, Klaussen took a surprising 26th place at the University of Vermont-hosted meet...
...different Klaussen is skiing this year, one who no longer places in the middle of the pack at ski carnivals. In the first race of the season, this Klaussen jumped to a 16th in the University of New Hampshire carnival, his second best race to date. Here was a Klaussen who could fall in the middle of a run and still cop sixth place, as he did at the giant slalom at Dartmouth last month. And then, three weeks ago, he took a 5th and a 12th in the slalom and giant slalom at Williams...
From 51st to 5th in the Heinz variety list, Klaussen keeps on moving up all the time...