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Stripping Down: Taking off unnecessary layers and skiing in kilts is definitely encouraged at the Great Ski Race! Photo by Alotta Baloney |
Comments (1)The Cottonwood Crash & the Tea Bagger Chuckle
By Alotta BaloneyPublished: March 11, 2010
Mountain Mix
Winter is nearly over and two awesome events this month are sending the season off with a bang: the Great Ski Race and SnowFest. This year marks SnowFest’s 29th year as the Mardi Gras of the West where locals and visitors get to enjoy excellent March snowpack and plenty of party favors through the 14th.
On March 7, the Great Ski Race brought hundreds of cross-country skiers and their supporters to Tahoe Cross Country to send racers off with well wishes. As everyone knows, the race ends in Truckee at Cottonwood Restaurant at the base of a hill where even bigger crowds gathered to watch many a skier crash their way through the finish line on squirrely, skinny skis. Now, I have great admiration for these tenacious and brave skiers, but I do admit that the finish line can be quite entertaining with so much flailing around going on. The most astonishing sight I beheld were the lady skiers maneuvering the finish with a sled carrying a child. Not everyone gets to say they did the Great Ski Race at six months old. Most of us have to tell people that our “problem” is we got dropped on our heads.
Happy birthday this month to Incline Village resident Jane Hunt. Congrats as well for surviving the Great Ski Race — at your age. Jane is a transplant from jolly old England and could be heard screaming the popular British phrase “bloody hell!” on the track’s downhill portions.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all my fellow micks out there. Make sure you have your DD in tow as you pub crawl and celebrate a holiday that Americans are not sure why we have. But hey, any excuse to chug a Guinness I suppose. Remember this toast: There are only two kinds of people in the world; the Irish and those that wish they were.
By the way, the political movement often referred to as “the Tea Party” has their own toast now. It goes like this: I wish someone had done some research into pop culture before we decided to call ourselves tea baggers. (If you don’t know what this slang phrase means, just ask a 24-year-old.) Well, at least the older half of the population isn’t going to die laughing when they hear the term.
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