SKIING Scene: Surf's Up, Grab Your Skis
By John Dostal

You might say that for Bill Koch, America's best Nordic skier - he won Olympic silver in '76 and the overall World Cup in '82 - life's not exactly a beach.


Boy, I could sure go for a hot cocoa. (Photo by Dirk Belling / Nomad)
 

At 44, he's still passionate about skiing and notorious for finding ways to simulate it for off-season training. Koch admits to having sk