Top Five: Bits that went down during the hiatus
For today’s post, we’ll roll with a tune that pushes a little more urgency. Press play here:
#5. Kikkan went to Hawaii and “rested” by riding up volcanos surfing and generally continuing to crush it. Here’s some footage of Kikkan surfing the wave the killed Patrick Swayze in Point Break:
This also took place:
#4. Pete Vordenberg called it quits. Pete brought a lot to the ski team. He brought a lot to ski culture in the US. Furthermore, he played other sports with various coaches. To honor Pete, we’ve got some footage of his last basketball game against some other coaches:
#3. President Obama made some very small mention of skis.
#2 The invariable coach / athlete shuffle.
- Gus Kaeding to Stratton’s new program.
- Corkdog to USST (Igor to head at CXC)
- Diggins to Stratton (Also the A Team)
- Brooks to USST (Also APU still)
- Simi to the A team.
- A bunch of people to the Craftsbury Green team.
#1.
About 100 gazillion different humorous funny pseudo ski related websites popped up.
There’s this twitter feed.
And this one.
One thing with all of these: everytime one popped up, we’d get another email thanking us for starting another funny site. This is super flattering to the intrepid team here at Johnny Klister.com because clearly, we are the only funny website in the ski world, but it is super insulting to the ski world because what I just typed back there in italics is clearly not true. (Notice the use of bold type face for emphasis.) Look, there are a lot of funny people out there. There are a lot of nerds who like the internet. The ski scene is big enough for all of them.
There it is- six weeks of ski news in two posts.