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TWSSF Day 4 report
The vodka flows freely as the nights begin to meld together. However, the skiing stays surprisingly good for mid-April. This leaves most festival goers following a ragged schedule of drink, ski, eat, drink, sleep, ski. If there’s any one word to describe the spirit of the World Ski and Snowboard Festival that word would be “manic”…or maybe “inebriated”.
Last night this editor did his best to live up to that spirit and attended the finals of the Whistler-Blackcomb contest If Ullr Was a Girl after a long day coming up short on the tables in the Whistler terrain park. Grete Eliassen held it down for the skiing contingent by making it through to the final three with two knuckle-draggers rounding off the podium behind her. We decided to celebrate this fact (any excuse is working at this point) at the Garibaldi Lift Company. The entertainment of the night included the tunes of Johnny Cash’s backing band, the Tennessee Three. The bar packed with Cash fans drinking whiskey and singing along loudly to Ring of Fire. As the band wound down, the intensity notched up and I pulled a Houdini, ducking out the backdoor en route to a comfy bed and a spinning ceiling. Call me a candy-ass if you will but tomorrow would come soon and I needed to fit sleep in somewhere. Even the Man in Black has to walk the line occasionally. – Mike Berard