Doing something different today…going with Mitch to the Business and New Products show in SLC.  Taking Tracks for the first time.  It should be a good day!

Went to the big city and walked through an amazing display of stuff for sale.  Biking stuff, hiking stuff, walking stuff, running stuff, sleeping stuff, stuffing stuff, gloves, hats, colorful socks, snowboards, kids sliding things, backpacks, water bottles, quick energy foods and candies, shoes, coats, scarves, knives, ice picks and climbing equipment, head lights, instant heat hand warmer thingys, surfing boards (why in SLC?), tents, a small camp trailer that could be pulled by a compact car, cold weather suits, ultra high altitude air masks, goggles, sun glasses, skin tight (this is all you need to wear) all weather clothing, keep your stuff dry, bags, cases and spray on stuff, and there was more, and more, and more, and more.

So, here we are wandering around seeing all this stuff and there is way too much stuff to be able to see all the stuff there is there, mostly because it is all covered up with more stuff that they wanted you to see.  When suddenly this very shapely woman wearing an all black skin tight whatever and hands me and Mitch each a card inviting us to an all you can drink beer happening at their booth beginning at 3:30 this afternoon…like right now…as I am typing this.  Well, you have probably figured out that Mitch got me out of town before that happening.

We took the Front Runner down and of course the trax while in town and it was a great event for a Bears Butt…just sort of wish we could have had a free beer or two and hung out with….well…that one woman.  Oh well, it’s just as well I’m home right now.

Bears Butt

Jan. 2012

It was in todays Ogden Standard Examiner, that the best equipment at the show was something Mitch and I laughed about.  An emergency inflatable air bag that deployed from a backpack in case you were caught in an avalanche…the sign said, “to assist you in not being completely buried”….

We felt, that only a crazy person would be in a position to get caught in an avalanche in the first place.

Congratulations to that company!