Cross Country Skier Early Winter 2021 Print or Digital?:Print Issue Pushing luck in Colorado's Elk

Pushing luck in Colorado's Elk Mountains

it’s time to ditch the same old touring haunts and get out there—way out there

The quiet beauty of a wintry landscape

Wintertime wordsmiths

But the area's cross country terrain is equally abundant

Cross Country Skier Early Winter 2021 Print or Digital?:Print Issue Pushing luck in Colorado's ElkOn the cover: On a near zero degree morning in late March in Crested Butte, Colorado, Xavier Fane captured this unknown skier on Mike's Mile, one of the Nordic center's most remote trails with Mt. Crested Butte behind. "To me," Fane says, "it denotes the peacefulness of a cold, calm spring morning during the time when COVID was just getting going." [Photo] Xavier Fane FEATURES The Fastest Race on Cross Country Skis Almost from the time the sprint made