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BUSTING BLISTERS i UNKNOWN ROCK STARS i YOUNG SKIERS IN THE SPOTLIGHT i CALENDAR OF OUTDOOR EVENTS VERMONT SPORTS FREE! MAGAZINE Vermont’s Authority on Outdoor Fitness and Adventure JANUARY 2011 VOLUME XX | NO. III GETTING DERBY-IZED 5 BACKCOUNTRY EVENTS TO SKI THIS WINTER VT NORDIC SKATING LIST IF THE BOOT FITS, SKI IT! 2 VERMONT SPORTS December 2010 VERMONT DEPARTMENTS SPORTS 4 Editor Commentary MAGAZINE CONTENTS Ruud Vekemans. Ruud Lost and Found Publisher 4 Out & About Sky Barsch Gleiner Getting Derby-ized [email protected] 8 A Few Sports Highlights Managing Editor from 2010 Kate Carter [email protected] 5 Retail Junkie Superstar Advertising Sales If the Boot Fits, Ski It! Get to Know an Unknown [email protected] 10 Rock Star Art Direction and Production Shawn Braley 6 Sports Medicine [email protected] Busting Blisters To advertise call the main offi ce VT Nordic Skating List Phone: 802-754-2997 (o/f) 802-279-0077 (m) 12-13 7 18 & Under or email [email protected] Skiing Into the Spotlight This month’s contributing writers Kate Carter; Sky Barsch Gleiner; Kirk Kardashian; 5 Backcountry Events to Chris Keller; Ryan Leclerc; Brian Mohr; Bob LoCicero; 16-17 Reader Athletes John Morton; Phyl Newbeck; Robert Rinaldi, DPM 14-15 Ski This Winter Alyson Ruby Grzyb and This month’s contributing photographers Paul Bierman Glenn Callahan; Kate Carter; Ed Linton; Bob LoCicero; Brian Mohr; Ruud Vekemans 19-22 Calendar of Events Editorial Offi ce Vermont Sports Publishing, LLC 19 High St., Orleans, VT 05860 22 Vermont Sports 802-754-2997 (o/f) 802-279-0077 (m) Business Directory [email protected] We welcome unsolicited material On the cover: Tim Donahue (67) of Nashua, NH, Joel Bradley (16) of New York City, NY, and Marc Gilbertson (70) of Morrisville, VT, at the 2010 but do not guarantee its safe return. 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Only material that includes a self-addressed, stamped envelope will be returned. Unless otherwise requested, all submitted material becomes the property of Vermont Sports Publishing, LLC and its affi liates. Copyright 2010 Vermont Sports Publishing, LLC All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. January 2011 VERMONT SPORTS 3 EDITOR COMMENTARY BY KATE CARTER LOST AND FOUND ’m on a roll. Starting this past Oc- til then, it’s bouncing around in the on another dog walk with the above- tact. I don’t put stuff on top of my tober I’ve found a nice collection back of my car. mentioned umbrella friend and we car anymore, but it’s taken some Iof items that people have lost on The next fi nd was a major score. had reached the turn-around point serious discipline to keep myself trails or at trailheads. I am happy to Draped over a low-growing shrub at of our walk. We saw something that from doing that. Maybe if I had a return these goodies to their rightful a scenic attraction trailhead I found a looked like a crumpled Bud Lite beer different car with a higher roof, owners, so, as you read this column, if Columbia Titanium technical jacket, can on the ground, half covered with instead one that’s at such a conve- you think I’ve found something that men’s large. This was during peak fo- ice and snow. Good Samaritan that nient height, it wouldn’t be such a is yours, all you have to do is contact liage, and I suspect a visitor on a bus she is, my friend thought she should problem. me and tell me where you lost it. No tour misplaced it. I rifl ed through all pack it out. She bent over to pick it up There was a slight lull in my location identifi cation, no reclama- the pockets—and there were a lot of and Lo! A headlamp! And it worked! recent stuff-fi nding streak, but tion. With that in mind, I will refrain them—looking for identifi cation, and The headband was missing, which sure enough, it happened again. from naming trails or trailheads in it occurred to me that someone had probably explains its separation from After a short hike up a nearby the following litany. already done that because all the zip- its owner. Since I got the umbrella, trail, I returned to my car. It was getting dark, but I could just make It all started on a cool rainy day pers were unzipped. I took it home she got the headlamp. and placed a “found” ad in the local I can’t help but wonder about all out a small lump in the parking in early October at a nearby haunt, paper. I got one response, but the this lost stuff I’m fi nding, but I’m writ- lot. It looked like it had been there where I met a friend and we took our caller was looking for something else, ing it off as payback. I’ve lost plenty of a few days—snow-covered with dogs for a walk. Upon returning to so I still have the jacket. It’s brown stuff myself, usually by putting it on tire tracks over it. I snagged it our cars we both spotted something and gray, which are not my colors, so top of the car and driving off. Once with my hiking pole tip and took a colorful lying in the parking area. An it’s become a yard jacket. It’s become I found a very nice Buck knife right closer look. As luck would have it, umbrella! A very nice umbrella. Since my jacket of choice when I do things in the middle of Route 100. I fi gured it was a Smartwool beanie, and a I’ve been without an umbrella most of around the yard in the rain—clean that was replacement for the Swiss great color—purple! Beanies usu- my life, I got to claim the prize. up the last of the garden debris, fi ll Army Knife I lost when it went fl ying ally give me wicked hat head, but Not long after that, in another fa- potholes in the driveway with the off the roof of my car in a sharp turn. this one looks really nice, and it’s vorite haunt, I found a small camera load of stay-mat I had dumped in the Same thing happened with a nice pair not so tight that my face looks like bag. It’s nothing I can use, since my parking area, pick up all the agility of Bolle sunglasses. I even did it with it’s popping out of a grape. I’ll prob- cameras are big and this bag is for equipment that’s strewn around the my wallet at a gas station.