“Kill the hill.”
That’s the mantra Haines cross-country captain Marirose Evenden repeated to herself during her run. The Glacier Bears were in Skagway for their second race of the season, a five-kilometer run which starts at the airport and crosses the river twice before finishing at Seven Pastures Park. “The hill” is the long, steep, rocky climb between Yakutania Point and the Dyea Road which dominates the first half of the course.
“That first hill…
