Published February 27, 2010, 12:00 AM

Birkie beginning


Josie Nelson, and her 13-month old son Karl Nelson, ski at the beginning of the American Birkebeiner cross-country ski race in Cable in the American Birkebeiner on Saturday. The Birkebeiner race is modeled after the historic resue of an infant that would become the king of Norway. Josie's husband David Nelson, and her brother-in-law Grant Nelson also dressed as Viking Warriors, called Birkebeiners, and skied the 54k race from Cable to Hayward along with Josie and Karl. (AP Photo/Paul M. Walsh)
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