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Trivia Nights at Lefty’s, for Charity BY KAREN BOSSICK
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hat is the largest instrument in an orchestra’s string section? What model of Chevrolet bombed in Puerto Rico because its name implied it would not go? If these kinds of brain teasers put your brain in overdrive, you might want to check out the Charity Trivia competitions at Lefty’s on Tuesday nights. Lefty’s Bar & Grill at 6th and Washington streets in Ketchum hosts Charity Trivia at 8 p.m. each Tuesday. Entry fee is $15 per team of up to six with a third of the entry fees going to local charities. Questions range from sports to pop culture to history, with prizes for the winners. Players can form their own teams or join a team at each night’s competition. Lefty’s owner Dave Hausmann said Lefty’s started offering Trivia Nights more than a year ago. It’s been a big hit with college-age students. Local lawyer Adam King and Dr. Gary Hoffman took over when the originator moved on. Hoffman calls it “a great alternative bar activity for Ketchum.” “We’re increasing the variety of questions to strike more balance for the young and older in the audience,” he added. By the way, the answers to the previous questions are bass violin and Nova (“no va” means “no go” in Spanish). Editor’s Note: According to Gary Hoffman, some of the charities that have benefited to date include The Advocates, Higher Ground, Silver Creek Preserve and The Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley. He also wants people to know that Lefty’s is a family-friendly establishment and youth are both welcomed and encouraged to attend. How are the charities chosen? Hoffman explained that participating teams throw names into a hat and the winning team draws from those entries at the end of the night. tws
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BordertoBorder Jim Keller Skis Finland STORY & PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK
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t has long been billed as the longest ski event in the world—450 kilometers or 270 miles in seven days. And Hailey skier Jim Keller and his friends were painfully aware of that fact by the time they finished Finland’s “Border to Border Ski Trek,” otherwise known as the Rajalta Rajalle Hiihto,” or “border to border cross-country ski.” Keller joined 360 skiers from Finland, Russia, Sweden and Germany who took up the challenge in March. His comrades: Swan Valley’s Blaine “Blackie” Staun, who races in the Boulder Mountain Tour every year; Jonathan Klein, a former ranger with the Madison Ranger District; Kelly Sanders, a shopkeeper from West Yellowstone; and a Patagonia ski rep. The five needed only step out of their hotel in Helsinki and look at the boats stuck in the ice in Helsinki’s Baltic port to realize they had landed in a country that endures winter eight months out of the year. They started their tour in negative temperatures, which warmed up to— brrr—single digits and, finally, into the lower teens as the week progressed. “We hit minus 34.6 degrees Fahrenheit once—the coldest ever for this event,” said Keller. “Their windows had four panes— we could stash our beer in between the panes and it stayed very cold.” Keller and his friends started their tour in sight of Russian border guard towers and ended it at a Swedish border so obscure that they hardly knew they’d crossed the border. They skied an average 39 miles a day—46 miles on the longest day. Keller likens the trip to skiing in the Targhee National Forest outside Yellowstone National Park. They followed a single classic track groomed by snowmobile through forests of birch, Norway spruce and Scotch pine, usually next to utility lines and a snowmobile lane, rather than the skate ski lane they’re used to here. They skirted the Arctic Circle, passed a reindeer farm and summer cottages, and skied across frozen swamps and lakes. They skied along what’s called “Death’s Railway,” an abandoned route built during World War II by Germans who forced prisoners into hard labor. And they skied past towns with names like Taivalkoski, Sy-ote, Kuusamo, Pu-
Jim Keller sports a trophy that he earned comprised of two skis and the Finns’ version of a tree trunk.
dasjarvi, Keminmaa. “It was fairly flat yet it looked the same mile after mile after mile,” said Keller, who volunteers as a Nordic patrolman for the Blaine County Recreation District along the Harriman and Croy trails. “It was very monotonous. And I think they got their measurements confused—often they’d post a sign that said 2 kilometers to the lunch spot and we would ski forever to get there.” Each day the skiers bellied up to a handful of food stations along the route, some in yurts or historic farmhouses where massive fireplaces were designed so people could sleep on top of them.
Always, there was hot lingonberry juice, raisins and dill pickles. “No Power Bars. No hot chocolate. Occasionally, they had chunks of chocolate but they weren’t very good—they were kind of waxy. The pickles were there because they provided electrolytes. The lingonberry juice got old after seven days.” Lunch typically consisted of reindeer soup, perhaps some salmon chowder, bread or sweet rolls. Breakfast consisted of herring, Cream of Wheat, eggs, sausages, lunch meat and rolls. Dinners of salmon, reindeer
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