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f it’s Tuesday, you can rest aswear the same-colored suits dessured it’s a blue day on Baldy. ignated according to the day of Come Wednesday, you’ll be the week. It’s the suits that set seeing red. them apart. And, probably, it’s Will Van Ert and David the suits that have kept them Hitchin don’t have to think together. twice about which ski parka to After all, without the suits, don whenever they hit Baldy. they would be just a nondeby: Karen It’s preordained for them, as it script group of good friends who Bossick has been for years. enjoy skiing together. Van Ert and Hitchin belong “One of the guys used to sit on to “The Suits,� as they’ve come to the board of Marker clothing and, as be called. And, no, it has nothing to do a result, we got new Marker jackets every with dressing up for a hard day’s work at the year,� said David Hitchin, adding that this office. year’s new suit is teal blue. The group of men has become a fixture The Suits had their genesis in Sun Valley’s on Bald Mountain for decades, weaving in Mountain Masters program, which offers and around bathtub-sized moguls under the high-level instruction for up to a hundred Challenger chairlift and cutting through men and women each winter. The skiers split pristine corduroy on Christmas Ridge. You can’t miss them because they always continued, page 13 David Hitchin tackles the moguls in Christmas Bowl.
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