Man it feels good to be moving out and getting rid of everything. I kicked my excess computer junk, got rid of all the clothes I don’t wear (except a Western State College Cross Country and an East High Cross Country shirt), and have all the furniture gone. It’s really nice to finally have my needs specified so well that they fit into a few small boxes.

That doesn’t include the gigantic ski box on my car, of course

Changin Skiing

This Johhny5 thing is cool. The write-up about Kikkan is the closest I’ve seen to her character yet, and the other one about Caldwell was terrific. But what the hell am I doing on the nomination list? Seriously, who came up with that?

But, I did start thinking a little bit after reading the write-up about Kikkan, and especially after blasting skiers for being rich white kids. If you had 20 hours a week to dedicate towards a project to advance skiing in your area or in the country as a whole, what would it be? As in, what do you think the community needs the most that you would want to offer given the resources?

I was thinking that I would start a club targeted at beginner and intermediate skiers that were interested in skiing for fun. I would start it off by scheduling the usual weekly ski and give free technique help to anyone who came. I see plenty of snow and winter awareness in Anchorage to make that sort of thing happen, and all it needs is someone to offer up free help to allow people to get interested.

The focus would be on fun and learning, and getting as many people into skiing as possible. If you get a 30-year-old into it as a beginner , then their kids will do it early on and become experts.

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