SANDPOINT — A family that skis together, stays together — or at least until it’s freezing cold in the middle of the night and you’re tearing down the same run for the 120th time.

Starting this morning at 8 a.m., one Sandpoint family will muster all of the strength and stamina they have to ski all day and all night for a great cause.

Paula Lund, 51, and her twin sons Finan and Peik, both 14, and Kjetil, 11, are no strangers to the ski slopes, and they’ll join a couple hundred other die hard skiers and snowboarders looking to complete as many runs as their bodies and minds will let them.

So it goes at 24 Hours of Schweitzer, a popular round-the-clock fundraising ski event that benefits cystinosis, and local boy Hank Sturgis, who is afflicted with the rare disease. The Lunds have made the event a family affair since 2011, when Finan first started researching the cause and Hank Sturgis on the family’s computer.

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