Skiing 36 Hours Straight. Insanity at its Finest
Will you tune in? I’m going to be skiing for 36 Hours straight and live-blogging the whole damn thing.
When? Starting Friday morning (Nov 30th) at 9am and me and an equally crazy group of 7 others will be risking our necks until Saturday night (Dec 1st) at 9pm, when we’ll finally kick our skis off and hit the bottle for some much needed relief.
Why? Because I’m a sucker for big events, I’m all for promoting awareness for disability causes and I love to ski. Sounds like 3 entirely different things that would never come together, right? Not so! I received a copy of Ski Magazine about 3 weeks ago and as I skimmed through it I noticed a brief section on ‘Skiing for a Cause.’ Turns out there’s this really cool event that gets held every year at Keystone Ski Resort here in Colorado. It’s called 36 Hours of Keystone. Part of the money from the event goes to benefit the Keystone Adaptive Center, which helps teach people with disabilities how to ski and snowboard.
Remember, we’re going to live-blog the whole thing! That’s right, you can spit in the face of your insomnia by constantly re-checking the super-special 36 Hours blog we’ve set up. Instead of actually getting sleep on our rests we’re going to blog about nearly crashing into trees and what it’s like to be around Cherl when she’s gone 20 hours without sleeping and has a Camelback full of coffee dripping into her veins. Exciting stuff. We’ll be posting our reflections and ruminations along with all the pictures the server can bear. Gosh, sleeping is so overrated, alright? Stay up with us and check back to see what’s happened. When the event is over and we’ve woken up from a 2-day recovery nap we’ll post video from the time so you can see what happened at 30 frames per second.
Sounds like fun. I’m sure my wife would join you inasmuch as she was on the German National Team at a younger age. Alas, it’s a wee bit too far from us, although if she started now, she’d probably get there in time.
Have fun and don’t kill yourself, although that’s hard to do at Keystone.
Cheers.
Your wife was on the German National Team? That’s really cool! Do you guys visit the mountains in the winter very often?
We used to in our BC, i.e. “before children” days. We also used to spend a couple of weeks in Germany skiing. A story here. Now it’s hard to find the time except for Christmas break, and then the slopes are filled with drunk college students. I’m too old for that.
Cheers.
Tim, unfortunately, since the kids started school, it has become increasingly difficult to plan winter trips. We used to go to Germany for Christmas and then a week in the Austrian Alps, but it’s hard to do with basketball season and other activities. Ditto Colorado.
Here’s a post about my wife’s earlier ski efforts. Here’s how I learned to ski.
Good luck and don’t break anything.
Cheers.