Ogden Outdoor Adventure Show 316 - XTERRA

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WEEKLY HAPPY | Corvair Racing Stein Eriksen down Aspen

INTERVIEW/GUESTS | XTERRA Professional Racer, Will Kelsay

The 2018 XTERRA Pan Am Championship triathlon and XTERRA Trail Run National Championship are presented by the Utah Sports Commission and Paul Mitchell. Partners include Gatorade Endurance, Suunto, GOAL Foundation, OOFOS, Maui Visitors Bureau, Hawaii Tourism Authority, and the U.S. Forest Service.

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XTERRA PRO, Will Kelsay

• XTERRA is in it’s 23rd year with it’s 15th year in Utah. The Pan America 

• XTERRA Championships span South & Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean, Canada, and US.

• Elites are racing for $80,000 in prize money

• Been racing XTERRA since 2003, as a pro since 2005.

• Mr. XTERRA" award winner in 2007, the year he went on a season-long road trip across the U.S. in a beat-up RV (many, many stories there)

• Races as an elite and is also a race announcer for other events, was a co-race director for XTERRA Portland this year. Totally passionate about XTERRA.

• Has also done an around-the-world ticket to do six races in six countries in six weeks. 

ON THE DOCKET

• Blues, Brews & BBQ, Sundays at Snowbasin

• 9.13      25th Annual Utah Avalanche Center Fundraising Party, Black Diamond Store, 6-10pm

• 9.14-15 2018 Ogden Yoga Fest

• 9.14      XTERRA Packet Pickup Expo, Ogden Amphitheater Park, 10am-6pm

• 9.15      XTERRA Pan America Championships Off-Road Triathlon, Snowbasin

• 9.16      XTERRA Trail Run National Championship, Snowbasin

• 9.13      25th Annual Utah Avalanche Center Fundraising Party

• 9.15      Park City Trail Series 1/2 Marathon - Park City, 8am

• 9.16      Edible & Medicinal Plants of the Uinta Mountains: Herb Walk

• 9.19      The Dawn Wall at Canemark Tinseltown 14, 7pm

• 9.22      Painting in Nature, Snowbasin, 1pm

• 10.6      WSU Mount Ogden Hike Tradition

• 10.7      Basin Beer Fest, Snowbasin, 

• 10.10    15th Annual Outdoor Gear Sale & Swap, WSU Campus Bell Tower, 8am-3pm

• 10.12-14 WSU Outdoor Program Women’s Only Backpacking

• 10.18-21 WSU Outdoor Program Labyrinth Canyon Canoe Trip

#OnTheRadar

10.23-25  Volkswagen Presents Warren Miller’s “Face of Winter.” Peery’s Egyptian Theater

IN THE NEWS

• Less Snow Prompts Lengthening Grand Canyon Visiting Season

• Riggs Fire grows as it burns in Bryce Canyon National Park

• Chuting Gallery Author, Andrew McLean faces felony theft…

• Amer Sports receives Billion Dollar offer from Chinese Firm

• Cougar attack suspected in death of an Oregon hiker

• World’s largest indoor ski resort scheduled to open in Shanghai

WORTH READING | New York Times: Jeff Lowe, Pathfinder Up the Face of Mountains, Is Dead at 67

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• Surfboards made of used whiskey casks

• Toms & So Ill create limited edition climbing shoe line

QUOTE OF THE WEEK | “People do not lack strength; they lack will.” – Victor Hugo

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