Logan Drevlow of Hopkins successfully melds high school Nordic skiing and mountain biking

For Logan Drevlow, hills are just hills, regardless of the place, or temperature.

In March, after Drevlow won three races — the mass start, the freestyle and the sprint — at the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Junior National Championships in Lake Placid, N.Y., he had just a week to prepare for the spring’s first national mountain-biking race. He finished 14th.

“I’m usually pretty rusty,” he said. “I hadn’t done any intervals on the bike. I just went and raced.”

A few months later, he finished third in the Junior 15-16 race at the USA Cycling Cross-Country Mountain Bike National Championships in Pennsylvania.

“I definitely shook the rust off,” he said.

In September, he earned a spot on the professional Bear National team, which sponsors bikers from across the United States. Most of the members live out west, “so they have all those mountains and trails,” Drevlow said. Any tricks to replicate the Rockies? “Pedaling hard,” he said.