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Photo from the Zander family To event director Jeff Westcott, the first Imperial Challenge in two years felt like a joyous holiday. “It felt like Imperial Eve,” the Breckenridge resident said about Sunday night. For women’s lightweight champion Jill Sorensen, the Imperial’s return felt like a community reunion of friends even though it was physically distanced. To men’s lightweight race winner Chris Tatro, it felt like an end-of-winter, start-of-summer cornerstone. “For the first ti...

Grace Staberg of Silverthorne poses for a photo while training at Villars Winter Park for the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland on Jan. 9, 2020. Staberg continues to race on the ski mountaineering World Cup circuit in Europe this year. Photo by Ben Queenborough / Olympic Information Services Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Silverthorne’s Grace Staberg has continued to race on the International Ski Mountaineering Federation World Cup circuit in Europe. Most recently, Stab...

Photo from Jaime Brede The inaugural ski mountaineering season for Team Summit and head coach Jaime Brede has focused primarily on training, but the team hopes to head to its first in-person competition next month. Brede and Team Summit ski mountaineers Olivia Lyman and Delilah Staberg have trained weekly on Copper Mountain Resort’s new designated uphill routes. The endurance training, interval training and ski mountaineering fundamentals — such as bootpacking, downhill skiing on skinny ski...

Grace Staberg of Silverthorne won the vertical race at the French Ski Mountaineering Championships last weekend at Méribel Mottaret Ski Resort in France. “I was certainly happy to be able to stand on top of the podium in Saturday’s vertical, and am very excited to be racing like myself again and settling in over here,” Staberg said Thursday in a text message. “The races were well organized, and I was very grateful to be welcomed to the start line.” In a year when traditional ski moun...