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Feb 2 WSTC • Strength from the top of the Mountain
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Washington Ski Touring Club Monthly Program
Strength from the Top of the Mountain • Kim Kircher, Ski Patroller/Author/Traveler • REI Seattle • Feb. 2, 7p • Free
“Like” Washington Ski Touring Club on Facebook and RSVP to the event.
Kim Kircher will share how her life in the mountains taught her how to get through her own personal crisis. When her husband needed a live-saving liver transplant, Kim looked to the Cascades, and in particular, Crystal Mountain, for strength to get through the ordeal.
Her book, The Next Fifteen Minutes: Strength from the top of the Mountain, offers a rare glimpse into the strange and fascinating world of ski area work, where steep terrain and deep snow, the twin fuels that run her family's business, can teach us how to get through the worst trials just fifteen minutes at a time.
Kim has logged over six hundred hours of explosives control, earning not only her avalanche blaster’s card, but also a heli-blaster endorsement, allowing her to fly over the slopes in a helicopter and drop bombs from the open cockpit, while uttering the fabulously thrilling words “bombs away” into the mic.
Her husband’s family owns and operates ten ski areas in the United States and Canada, including Crystal Mountain, where she has worked for 22 years.
Enter to win a copy of The Next Fifteen Minutes: Strength from the top of the Mountain at the program.
Strength from the Top of the Mountain • Kim Kircher, Ski Patroller/Author/Traveler • REI Seattle • Feb. 2, 7p • Free
“Like” Washington Ski Touring Club on Facebook and RSVP to the event.
Kim Kircher will share how her life in the mountains taught her how to get through her own personal crisis. When her husband needed a live-saving liver transplant, Kim looked to the Cascades, and in particular, Crystal Mountain, for strength to get through the ordeal.
Her book, The Next Fifteen Minutes: Strength from the top of the Mountain, offers a rare glimpse into the strange and fascinating world of ski area work, where steep terrain and deep snow, the twin fuels that run her family's business, can teach us how to get through the worst trials just fifteen minutes at a time.
Kim has logged over six hundred hours of explosives control, earning not only her avalanche blaster’s card, but also a heli-blaster endorsement, allowing her to fly over the slopes in a helicopter and drop bombs from the open cockpit, while uttering the fabulously thrilling words “bombs away” into the mic.
Her husband’s family owns and operates ten ski areas in the United States and Canada, including Crystal Mountain, where she has worked for 22 years.
Enter to win a copy of The Next Fifteen Minutes: Strength from the top of the Mountain at the program.
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