Visitors and Snowmobiles

A lot of snowmobile hill-climbing action this weekend at Snow King and Trevor was soaking it up, his self-proclaimed favorite weekend of the year. If you are not familiar with the Hill Climb, it is where snowmobiles try to make it to the top of the local mountain, Snow King (which is ridiculously steep) and in the process, usually don't make it. Consequently, the wreckage is always pretty spectacular and the people are very entertaining to say the least!

Believe it or not, this event draws about 10,000 people to Jackson for the weekend and the general mood in town is a little more testosterone-crazed than normal. Three of the 10,000 visitors came and stayed at our house, a great visitor weekend with Adam Grace and Suzan and Nathan Pelloni. Lots of fun.

Trevor and his mustache in his element.
(And might I add, looking nasty)

The view of the course from the chairlift, it always gets really chewed up and down to the dirt.

The guys in neon are the "Hill Help" who essentially try to save the sleds from crashing all the way back down to the bottom if the rider falls off. Sometimes they are successful and sometimes they aren't, but there is a huge net they string off of one of the lift towers to catch the runaway sleds so they don't go all the way to the bottom.

Nathan actually did the Hill Climb and he kicked butt, getting 2nd out of 38 in the Amateur division!

Here is Adam, spectating. He had to borrow a mustache/beardo hat to fit in with the crowd.

Nathan and Suzan at the awards with the big trophy.

Suzan and I...we ski raced together in college, took an awesome trip to Hawaii and have shared quite a few wild and crazy adventures. So good when we actually get to hang out, which is not that often any more!

If you want to see a little bit of the action, check this out. I took this from the chairlift, riding right over the course.