Thank you to @gearwest for sponsoring the 2021 City of Lakes Loppet Winter Festival. Gear West is a family-owned specialty sporting shop focused on cross-country skiing, biking and triathlons, alpine skiing and snowboarding, running and all the service and accessories that are a part of the sports we love. Store owner Jan Guenther completed the Hybrid race version for this year's Classic/Skate Ski Loppet and said, "What we can all agree upon and enjoy is the fact that the Loppet course is SUPER fun to ski - it is rare we have enough snow to ski that full course (except for the lakes) for more than two days in a row. I LOVE the directional evergreens and no where is there such a mix of hills, woods, manmade loops, city skyline... It was a JOY to ski/race this morning - we got back before work started - and even if I forgot to turn on my watch for virtual timing - I will remember my ‘fake’ race, complete with bibs, in a tiny snowstorm and under headlamps, for years to come. Thank you Lo...