Adam Loomis: age 25.
After watching the Salt Lake City Olympics as a ten year old, I jumped into this sport with the lofty dream of someday calling myself an Olympian. I came close to realizing that goal in the Sochi Olympics. Although I didn't make the team, my motivation is high and my eyes are on 2018.
I grew up in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Upon graduating from high school, I spent the next two years training in Steamboat Springs, CO. Now, Park City, UT has been my home since I made the US Team in April 2012.
I grew up in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Upon graduating from high school, I spent the next two years training in Steamboat Springs, CO. Now, Park City, UT has been my home since I made the US Team in April 2012.
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In high school I competed in Nordic competitions throughout the Midwest and nation. I also skied for Chippewa Valley Nordic, Eau Claire's high school country ski team, and ran cross country. Now my training and competition is a full time engagement, but I do find time for other activities. I love all types of skiing, whether it is on a mountain or in a forest, on snow or on water.
My favorite forms of cross training include backcountry skiing, running, yoga and all forms of bike riding. I have worked a variety of part-time jobs, from a science camp counselor for elementary school students to a detailer at a local car dealership. In Steamboat, I learned the secrets of the restaurant world at the local gem Ciao Gelato. Now I wait tables in the evenings at a local Swiss restaurant. The managers are flexible enough to let me work around my crazy schedule, and working part-time helps to pay for my living, equipment and travel expenses. 
Earned tele turns in Aspen, CO. Training doesn't get much better than this.
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One of my favorite pastimes is slacklining
(which is an activity in which one strings a climbing rope between two trees and walks along the line like a tightrope walker.) My friends and I often get strange looks while doing this, and when people ask the inevitable, "Why?" I would reply, “Because it’s a challenge.” That might not be enough of a reason for everyone, but it certainly is for me. At age ten I taught myself how to ride a unicycle, simply because it was something that I had never done and always wanted to do. Around that same time I took log rolling classes at the YMCA. I will admit that it’s a rare occasion when I get to exercise my lumberjack talent, but that’s not the important part.
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Brothers, racing down Steamboat' Main Street. Ben leads for this moment.
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