Idaho Mountain Express: Celebrating skinny

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Celebrating skinny

    Skinny skis are “it” this week.
   With an array of events that began last week, the Nordic Festival will culminate in the event’s granddaddy, the Boulder Mountain Tour, on Saturday. The festival is a great example of what energetic communities and volunteers can do to encourage lifetime sports.
   Saturday’s Ski the Rails tour saw people of all abilities and all ages glide along what once was the rail line from Ketchum to Hailey. Aid station volunteers welcomed them and cheered them on.
   The week-long festival is a remarkable celebration of outdoor life, which these days too often falls into the fluorescent shadow of indoor electronic pursuits.
   It celebrates motion that’s essential to human health. It celebrates snow, essential to the health of the earth. It brings families and friends together in affordable winter recreation and conviviality, essential for good human relations. It’s a time for strangers to become friends, united in their love of cross-country skiing.
   The week highlights the notable foresight of Blaine County and its cities in linking themselves together with trails friendly for walking, snowshoeing, skiing and summer cycling. It shows off the magnificent Harriman Trail that parallels the snow-padded Big Wood River and its sentinels, the Boulder Mountains. (BTW, anyone who likes the trails in the winter should see them in the summer.)
   Last year, nearly 1,000 racers participated in the tour while several thousand more friends and family supported them in the 32-kilometer (19.8-mile) roller coaster ride from Galena Lodge at the start to North Fork at the southern finish.
   Only one person will top the podium on Saturday, but everyone who celebrates the exhilaration of being outdoors will win.

comprare viagra
comprar viagra
viagra kaufen

About Comments

Comments with content that seeks to incite or inflame may be removed.

Comments that are in ALL CAPS may be removed.

Comments that are off-topic or that include profanity or personal attacks, libelous or other inappropriate material may be removed from the site. Entries that are unsigned or contain signatures by someone other than the actual author may be removed. We will take steps to block users who violate any of our posting standards, terms of use or any other policies governing this site. Use of this system denotes full acceptance of these conditions. Please review the full rules governing commentaries and discussions. You are fully responsible for the content that you post.

The comments below are from the readers of mtexpress.com and in no way represent the views of Express Publishing, Inc.

You may flag individual comments. You may also report an inappropriate or offensive comment by clicking here.

Flagging Comments: Flagging a comment tells a site administrator that a comment is inappropriate. You can find the flag option by pointing the mouse over the comment and clicking the 'Flag' link.

Flagging a comment is only counted once per person, and you won't need to do it multiple times.

Proper Flagging Guidelines: Every site has a different commenting policy - be sure to review the policy for this site before flagging comments. In general these types of comments should be flagged: