As we flew into Alaska the endless snow caked mountains were glowing orange with the sunsetting, it was then that it hit me that I was about to spend two months exploring Alaska. An overwhelming feeling of excitement rushed over me.
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On Saturday, you’ll see rafts full of disco rockers, solo dudes in racing duds and trained teams ripping down the mountain, around the Nordic course, cycling from the Village to south of town and paddling frigid waters.

All this happens each year - rain, snow, shine, wind - in the 33rd annual Pole Pedal Paddle- a Jackson Hole tradition held each year on the last Saturday of skiing at the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.

The four-event race, where contestants compete either individually or in teams, consists of an alpine ski leg, a cross-country ski leg, a bicycle leg, and a boating leg.

The Pole Pedal Paddle is a major fundraising event for the Jackson Hole Ski and Snowboard Club, (JHSC) a non-profit organization dedicated to providing affordable Alpine, Freeride, Nordic and Snowboard programs to Jackson youth. (Annually, the JHSC must raise over $310,000 to subsidize the cost of program fees and bring affordable snow sports to over 400 athletes ages 6-20.)

You don’t have to be a racer to race! Sign up! Have fun! Support your local ski club and stay for prizes afterward at the Snake River Sporting Club.

Carrie Pennington is the executive director of the Jackson Hole Ski and Snowboard Club. When necessary, she rocks a mean one piece. 

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Dr. Phil N. DeBlanc, Professor of Gravitas Emeritus at the University of Oxlip, today released a controversial study for peer review.

Titled “The Unbearable Heaviness of Hucking: Extreme Sports Increase Gravity Consumption to Our Everlasting Peril,” Dr. DeBlanc’s data suggests that Earth’s gravity is being depleted at an unsustainable rate. Among his findings:

– Based on its land mass and population, the United States generates 8.71% of the Earth’s gravitational field.

– Due to the proliferation of elevators, escalators and most recently extreme gravity sports, Americans consume 59% of the earth’s gravity.

– Our gravity-consumptive lifestyle is growing exponentially and could lead to an “unpredictable lightness of being.”

Dr. DeBlanc delivered his paper before the annual meeting of the International Research Scientists Wondering, Now What? in Helvetica, Switzerland.

Dr. DeBlanc warned, “It used to be that gravity sports — sky diving, skiing, Olympic 10-meter platform events — were the avocation of the privileged few. Today, millions of youths are quite the eager gravity hogs. Bungee jumping. Skateboarding down lengthy shopping mall handrails. Para-anything-ing.”

Recent developments in ski lift use have dramatically shifted gravity exchange rates, he noted. “Exertion-free rides up mountains are robbing Earth of a reliable source of gravity replenishment,” Dr. DeBlanc said. “Mountain biking from ski lifts burns gravity voraciously. Meanwhile, old-fashioned stem-plant-stem skiers, who naturally conserved gravity, are dying off. They are being replace by ‘go for it’ skiers. ”

“I urge them to forego it!” Dr. DeBlanc tragically punned before his IRSW,NW? colleagues.

Dr. DeBlanc calculated that at current rates of gravity depletion, by the year 2016 average Americans will be back to average weight.