Life is just a sequence of turns. Everything turns: Days to nights. Seasons. Water to vapor. The Weather. Clocks. Our snowboards.
The Mt. Baker Ski Area? Legendary Banked Slalom turned 30 last winter. And we turned up. Up the road. Around the bullwheel. Then down the mountain. Left then right then left again. Rain turned to snow. Clouds turned to sun. Seconds turned to minutes and minutes to hours. Then day turned to night again.
Riders: Tim Eddy, ? Leanne Pelosi, Lucas Debari?, Ryuji Takai, Kyle Miller, Kael Martin,? Matt Belzile and Johnny Brady?
If you look at the original poster for The Towering Inferno you will see Paul Newman’s name above that of Steve McQueen, but McQueen’s image to the left of Newman’s.
This did not happen by chance: in the sole major film the two biggest stars of the Seventies appeared in together, it was the only way that equal billing could be assured. But they have something other than a big-budget disaster movie in common: both loved to race cars … More