Angeli VanLaanen: From Mount Baker to Sochi

skiingAngeli VanLaanen: From Mount Baker to Sochi

Every adventurer and athlete has to deal with setbacks due to injury or illness. Whether it’s a head cold during a summit bid or an ankle sprain that sidelines you for weeks, it’s frustrating and difficult. Freestyle skier and Olympic hopeful Angeli VanLaanen knows this all too well. She endured years of living with an undiagnosed case of Lyme disease while working her way up through the professional freestyle skiing circuit. Angeli grew up in Connecticut (home to the town of Lyme, from which Lyme disease gets its name). When she was an adolescent, her family moved to Bellingham. Read more.

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