Olympic champions Julia Mancuso (Olympic Valley, CA), who challenged for the overall title until the last week of the 2007 season, lead a ready-to-go U.S. Ski Team into the opening races of the 2008 season on the Rettenbach Glacier in Soelden. photo A view from the top of the "icebox" at Soelden, where US women's team trained for the opening World Cup giant slalom (credit: Doug Haney/U.S. Ski Team)