Word: skis
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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...
...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...
...eastern ski powers will need to adjust quickly to keep pace with the West's big guns, particularly former champion University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Wyoming, and a very strong University of Utah squad...
Klaussen, who's lived a half mile from the Squaw Valley ski area most of his life, will at least be familiar with the surroundings. Hi father, former coach of the Squaw Valley ski team, put Eric in the gates at the age of four. Life has been at a 60-degree angle for him ever since...
...team and the Denver Post. If he captures Fox, he will own not just a highly profitable movie studio but a budding entertainment and real estate empire. Fox Chairman Dennis Stanfill has been investing movie revenues in nonfilm properties, including California's Pebble Beach golf courses and Colorado ski areas...