camhead
Feb 1, 2015, 4:10 PM
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lena_chita wrote: computer ate mah post! What kind of skiing, cross-country, or downhill? I'm really itching to ski, but I shouldn't just yet. Of course, everyone at work is talking about skiing all the time, so ugh! And I was wondering how can you volunteer at a black tie sort of event if you don't even have a tie, let alone a black one. Anyway, take a selfie with the star speaker, or it didn't happen.
Downhill, of course. I actually do not suck at teh x-country. We're headed back up to VT for a couple more days of it this week (gf is funemployed this week, her gnu jorb starts Monday).
The dinner was rad. I took no selfies with stars, because honestly I hate being that guy. It was also very white and very moneyed. Almost seemed like Monty Python levels of an old man's club vibe. They auctioned off an old ice axe autographed by Messner for over $20k.
Still it was a pretty impressive collection of head down, ass out gully-legends, real and imagined, in one place. I ran into most of them while working the checkin counter, and tried not to cup too many balls. Here's the spraydown of names (just walk away now Jack): Dave Breshears, Steve Wunsch, John Bragg, SIR Chris Bonnington, Greg Lowe, Jeff Lowe, Largo, Messner of course, Russ Clune, Fred Beckey, Uli Steck, then the young kids DiGuilian, Jorgeson, and Caldwell. Oh, and Ted Roosevelt IV.
Also saw this one woman whose name I did not recognize, but it turns out she was the first (and still only?) person to have ever skiied the seven summits. She without a doubt had the most amazing body I have seen, ever. Evar. Karen did go all fangirl on her.
We also got a lot of booty for volunteering. Adidas was the main sponsor, and they are REALLY aggressively busting into the outdoor scene (probably goes with the 5ten purchase and what have you). They've got some super nice down jackets, but it's still weird having performance gear with the Adidas stripes on it. Erie Guardless, See Eye really needs to contact them with his Hole resume, so he can get a track suit sponsorship.
(This post was edited by camhead on Feb 2, 2015, 12:33 PM)
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