Davos, Switzerland
March 2007 - Parsenn Derby

Hans invited Gunnar and me, along with Priska (Gunnar's sister), her mom, Lynn, and his family to Switzerland this year. We competed in the Parsenn Derby, which is an individual and a team downhill. The teams consist of up to 4 racers that leave the start, one after the other, The first person trips the wand to start the clock. The third person to cross the finish stops the clock. We had a blast and the team of Priska Sorensen, Gunnar Sorensen and myself were third overall. Priska won that ladies division in the individual race for the second time. Hans, his brother Thomas and his son Johnny also raced both as individuals and as a team.

Details of the race are available at Ski Club Davos: www.scdavos.ch. There is a very nice history of the derby (click here to read it) on the site Click here for results for the 73rd Parsenn Derby from the SC Davos site. You may want to copy the links to SC Davos and use them with Babel Fish Translation: http://babelfish.altavista.com/

I hope you enjoy the photos! The photos for this story are all from Gunnar. Thanks, Gunnar, for the great job of recording our journey.

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Doug