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WHEN DEVIN LOGAN WAS 18, she had mountains and snowflakes tattooed on her arm. A year later, after a knee injury at a New Zealand competition ended her 2012 season, she added the words: “Don’t fear the journey.” Then, after the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, a compass with a quote from JRR Tolkien: “Not all those who wander are lost.” The tattoo artist, however, misspelled ‘wander’ and wrote an ‘o’ in place of the ‘a.’ Logan didn’t realize the spelling error until after the artist finished.

“One of my roommates was looking at it and said, ‘Yo…I’m sorry, but I think that’s spelled wrong,’” says Logan. “I waited like three to four months to get it fixed… At least it didn’t say, ‘Not all those who wander are last.’”

Last place is unfamiliar territory for Logan, 23, the most dominant freeskier on the U.S. women’s ski team. She took the inaugural silver medal for slopestyle at the Winter Olympics (Canadian Dara Howell

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