On Thursday, March 21st, 67 years after the first major rock and roll concert in history, the trails at Alturas Lake are really rocking. We invite you to do the flying saucer boogie on trails meticulously groomed by Hucklebuckin’ Chaddeus Maximus. Alan Freed’s first rock concert in Cleveland was busted up by the authorities before it could really get rolling, but you can cross country any day at Alturas lake without fear of arrest.
Wednesday, March 20th, 2019 is really quite a special day. The Super Worm Moon reaches fullness at 7:42pm and the Sun arrives at absolute Equinox at 3:58pm Mountain Daylight Time. Energize your spirit with this powerful merging of the sun and the moon, the masculine and feminine, the kick and the glide. As if that were not enough for one day, this is also the birthday of the great Russian artist Illarion Mikhailovich Pryanishnikov as well as the day in 1915 that Einstein published his Theory of Relativity, a theory of extraordinary beauty claiming that the answer to the question ‘What is real?” begins with the question “Where are you standing?” Or perhaps, “Where are you skiing?” Bring beauty into your life at Alturas Lake or free fall into spacetime at Park Creek, where today, Daniel of the red beard has ventured out to gravitate some groovy ginzu corduroy from the black hole of Winter’s last day.
At Alturas Lake on Monday, the 18th, Chad groomed the Trail to the Lake, Over the Hill, North Cabin and South Loop. On Tuesday, March 19th, yet another clear, beautiful, sunny day greeted skiers at the Sawtooth Valley’s cross country ski areas. But since it marks the 155th anniversary of the birth of cowboy artist Charles Marrion Russell, we found ourselves reminded of blowing snow and the great blizzards of 1886 and 1887. At times, it is said, a rider couldn’t see his horse’s head in front of him, let alone a path out of the storm. In Russell’s painting “Lost in a Snowstorm, We are Friends” he portrays a group of Indians and two immigrant cowpokes who are all driven by the snow to treat one another as friends. At Alturas Lake and Park Creek we celebrate the snow that brings people together of different backgrounds and cultures, different classes, different political and religious beliefs, skiers, snowshoers, dogs and humans, without asking who is right or wrong, native or immigrant. Can’t we just be friends? (Of course, since you’ve gotta draw the line somewhere – no horses, walkers, snowmobiles or snow bikes please…)
On St. Patrick’s Day we are proud to guarantee the ski trails at Alturas Lake and Park Creek to be absolutely snake free! At Park Creek, Daniel, the Barbarossa. will be grooming this week while first man Adam is on vacation. At Alturas, Chaddeus Maximus groomed the Trail to the Lake and North Cabin Trail on Friday and was returning to groom trails to the east of the Creek on Sunday. Chad took over all grooming duties at Alturas for the remainder of the season after Davinius abruptly quit, having taken on a new position as boating coach at Stanford University, along with moonlighting as a major internet influencer, signing a contract with Tresemme to promote their beard care product line. His new motto – “You call it facial hair, I call it awesomeness escaping through my face.” In response to this shocking news, all we can say is, “Goodbye, good luck, and good riddance!”
On March 8th, International Women’s day, we salute the women of our community and especially the women of the Sawtooth Ski Club, without whom a lot less would get done and it wouldn’t be much fun anyway. Would there be a Ski Festival this weekend without them? No way! Sure, the men help too, but would the Stanley Community Building have been set up and decorated with such refined taste in preparation for the silent auction and dinner on Saturday night? NO! In the words of Harry Belafonte… Man Smart, Woman Smarter…
And not me but the people they say
That de man are leading de women astray
But I say, that the women of today
Smarter than the man in every way
That’s right de woman is smarter
That’s right de woman is smarter
That’s right de woman is smarter, that’s right, that’s right!
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