You snooze, you lose!

This past Friday, the first ever “12 Hours of Snowbird,” an endurance ski/snowboarding event, began at 7 pm and ended at 7 am the following morning. That's right, an all-nighter, and while I wanted to participate badly, my spouse used all of her influence talking me out of doing it, saying that it was not something an old guy like me should do. I even tried to convince my good friend Dirk to join me, but for once in my lifetime, I didn't get the support I needed and had to pass on this great opportunity to ski the night away.

When the powder settled and as a new day dawned on the exhausted and sleep-deprived participants, Matt Mullin was declared the winner with 125,643 vertical feet skied, followed by Ski Utah's boss, Nathan Rafferty at a very close 125,532 feet. The Utah record, Dirk Beal and I established last year at 112,750 was obviously shattered, but with it, we'd still would have ended up in 11th position. So considering the good night sleep we got, it wasn't a total loss and, as I never fail to say, there's always next year!