many years ago, as a younger man. I was training with the Norwegian Home Guard, doing Winter Operations Training. We were on a 3 day skiing trek over the top of one of Norway's mountain ranges. On the 2nd day, while pulling an Akio sled, I fell and slammed my foot into something hard, and broke my big toe. I continued on with the trek, and got a mild frostbite in it on the 3rd day. The day after the 3 day trek, the Norwegian's held a Biathlon event, where I skied on that broken and frostbit toe. I remember it being extremely painful. I placed 6th out of approximately 140 Soldiers. The toe still gives me fits today when the weather turns cold and I'm outside in the elements.

Anyway..... good times.

Here are some pics of what the training looked like. These are not my pics... mine would be so old that they would be in black & white. Ha...