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DECEMBER 2009 | VOLUME 29, ISSUE 3 WWW.CROSSCOUNTRYSKIER.COM THE SOUND OF SNOW SKIING GREEN MAINE HUTS & TRAILS 1960 SQUAW VALLEY OLYMPICS REVISITED WASHINGTON STATE OSLO, NORWAY CCS DEC 09 | 1 FIRESIDE Roland Huntford Nordic Historian and Storyteller by Lou Dzierzak Roland Huntford is one of the world’s foremost authorities on polar expeditions and their protagonists. The biographer of Shackleton and Nansen, his books include “Scott and Amundsen:LastPlaceonEarth” and “Two Planks and a Passion,”<b<a title="DEC_09_FULL.pdf page 78" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9c0081bd?page=78">FIRESIDE Roland Huntford </a> FIRESIDE Roland Huntford <a title="DEC_09_FULL.pdf page 73" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9c0081bd?page=73">to the last stop, Frognerseteren.You won’t be th</a> to the last stop, Frognerseteren.You won’t be th<a title="DEC_09_FULL.pdf page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9c0081bd?page=47">overeat. 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