Loppets, Loppets, Everywhere

I showed this short video to the NCS students to get them psyched for staffing the feeding stations this weekend at the Lake Placid Loppet. I wanted the students to see that in snowy climates all over the world, people are doing these long distance nordic races, and that often they have great historical significance as the picture of Prince Hakon and the birkebeiners alludes to. The video includes some great shots of not only the Lake Placid loppet which is held on the 1980 Olympic course, but also shots of the Engadine Skimarathon and the Vasaloppet in Sweden.