Spontaneity

We had a very un-planned date night last night – it was fun!

I had been going through my emails, deleting the junk and reading through the more important ones, when I came across an email from the Mat-SuTrails people. They had a couple Events listed at the bottom of their monthly newsletter, one of which caught my eye. It was a fundraiser for the Avalanche School here in the valley featuring a movie called “Anywhere From Here” being held at the Glenn Massey Theatre off Trunk Road.

We weren’t doing anything that night, so we decided to go check it out!

At the lobby, they had a silent auction going on – so we perused the tables and placed a few bids on things that Bryan thought he’d use if he actually won. The we headed on in to the theatre and took our seats. The theatre is actually really nice – plenty of seating, good lighting, nice acoustics. The perfect place for live performances and concerts and such. They have a huge drop-down screen, so we got to watch all that Extreme Skiing in larger-than-life color!

The movie was really good - all about Extreme Skiing. It mostly featured a 12-year-old boy, but also had others ranging from their 20s to their 30s. The skiing was just amazing. Honestly, I do not know how people do that. They helicopter up to the top of some really, REALLY big mountains and then strap little slats of wood onto their feet, balance themselves up on a knifes edge with a sheer drop off going straight down for miles and miles – and just jump off! Down they go! It was truly spectacular.

They had a lot of drone footage, so we got to see the skiers from all different angles as they flew down the mountains, in locations all over the world from Banff to Valdez to Switzerland to pretty much anywhere there is a mountain with snow on it. These people have no fear – or at least a very healthy respect for fear. There were some pretty colossal fails right alongside some epic – or “sic” as they would say – runs.

Bryan spent the whole night just wide-eyed and shaking his head. He skis, but has to fight his fear of heights the whole time. So you would definitely not find him up on a knives edge falling down off the mountains, no matter how “sic” the run might be!

All in all, it was a fabulous night out. We are now awaiting the phone call to announce Bryan as the winner of the items he bid on (not really).