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Hoofers! I am super psyched about the second weekend in February! We are going to the dah UP, eh!, and will be doing some freeheel skiing. The planned departure times are not set in stone as I need to hear some feedback from those who are interested in going. If you are interested, please read this email in its entirety and then reply to the questions at the end of email.
A couple links to give you some more info.
http://www.downwindsports.com/
http://www.downwindsports.com/
http://www.mtbohemia.com/
Telefest itself will cost $30 in addition to lift tickets. Porkies has a two for one deal, so $20/day (which =$40 for two days). Mt. Bohemia lift ticket is $50 (if we leave Thursday allowing us to ski Friday). Cabin/motel room cost for 2 (or 3) nights, fuel, food, and supplemental granola for the three-pinner types. Total trip cost will be not be entirely cheap.... should be about $200 for three days of skiing and three nights lodging. Gotta pay to play, I guess. But participants will be responsible for their own lift tickets ($90) and this was included in the $200. So I need from trip participants ASAP (like by next Tuesday or unless other arrangements are made) $50 CASH deposit that is only refundable with a replacement participant.
Here is what will be happening... we will be freeheel skiing at the Porcupine Mountains for at least two days (Saturday and Sunday) and possibly Mt. Bohemia Friday. It is here that we engage in telemark skiing, tele clinics, demos, more skiing, friendly comps, ski porn (read: my hero and good friend Josh Madsen's film The Freeheel Life), beverage and chili consumption, and bluegrass jamming (read: Chasin' Steel... add them to your Ipod now!). It is also here that will be joining freeheel skiers from across the Midwest (and, yes, even the nation as two of my heroes... Josh and JT....descend upon the dah UP for some tele turns). I am also sure there will be some international representation there as well.
Option A:
Leave Thursday at 5pm. Drive 8 hours to Mt. Bohemia on the Keweenah peninsula. Get up early Friday and ski. Ski until 4:30 Friday (2/12) and then drive over to the Porkies in time to socialize and watch an epic film ( http://www.freeheellife.com/ ). Crash on a cabin bed/motel floor/pullout couch. Get up early Saturday and ski all day again at the Porkies. Repeat Sunday. Plan on being back in Madison late Sunday evening... say 10:30pm Hoofer time.
Option B:
Leave Friday at Noon. Drive 6 hours to the Porkies. Ski Saturday and Sunday. Get back late Sunday.
Trip is also dependent upon winter driving conditions. A winter storm only means we play hooky and leave earlier to get there or leave later to get back. Fair enough!? Ok... I am not entirely serious, but this will certainly play a role when attempting to drive 15 hours starting on Thursday and ending late Sunday.
This email is dragging on. So... if you want to go on this trip. Reply to the following...
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1. Fill in the following blanks. "Free your [blank], free your [blank]!"
2. Rate your telemarking experiences by the following scale:
1= I ski endless gnar for breakfast.
2= Drops knees not bombs
3= Gets quad burn on the tow-rope
4= The Bunny hill is where the action is at.
5= Are those skis yours?.... both of them?
3. You just drove 8 hours to the UP, and the temperature outside is -5 degrees Fahrenheit and there is a slight wind out of the northwest. What would you do to entertain yourself for the day?
4. Do you want to ski Friday at Mt. Bohemia?
5. Can you get me a $50 CASH deposit at Tuesday's meeting or a tleast make another arrangement?
6. Your buddy, an alpine skier, crashes big time under the chairlift. Skis come off and poles go flying. Upon knowing that your buddy is indeed fine, what do you say from the chairlift?!
7. Can you handle it? And by it, I mean telemark skiing for three days in a row.
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