{"id":8486,"date":"2013-11-21T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/?p=8486"},"modified":"2013-11-25T08:35:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T15:35:43","slug":"vail-resorts-epic-race-what-is-it-were-doing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/vail-resorts-epic-race-what-is-it-were-doing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Vail Resorts Epic Race &#8211; What is it? We&#8217;re doing it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K2yQHW4jgDE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We might be crazy\u2026or ridiculously out of control awesome, but somehow Hydle, Rhinehart and I decided to go full force and enter the Epic Race\u2026 The &#8220;Epic Race&#8221; which means we\u2019ve decided to try to be three of the first 10 skiiers to ski all 26 Vail resorts in the 2013\/14 season!<\/p>\n<p>Our group consists of the following \u201cteam\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cooley \u201cThe Chick\u201d \u2013 self employed, living in Tahoe, \u2018learnable\u2019 skier level, never skied 26 days in a season, let alone in a row, but ready to try\u2026and will 100% chance definitely sleep more than anyone else in the group, or at least get grumpy trying!<\/p>\n<p>Rhinehart \u201cThird Wheel\u201d \u2013 corporate job engineer guy who still is going to make this trip happen on paid time off, everything he knows about skiing he learned from Hydle\u2026gluten free<\/p>\n<p>Greg \u201cThe Beard\u201d Hydle \u2013 \u201cSkiing is fun, and that\u2019s about all!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The rules are that you can only ski one US resort per day and two Europeans resorts per day, and the estimated day that we could be winning\/finishing the race would be December 20 in France, as that is the resort that has the last opening day this season.<\/p>\n<p>The most likely scenario is that there will be a tie up until this final day\/final 26th resort (it doesn&#8217;t open until December 20, so the assumption is that there will be a LOT of racers that have completed the previous 25 resorts leading into this final opening day, so everyone who has will be ready to win on this final day.)<\/p>\n<p>So, unless we fall behind, we will most likely be tied with the winners all the way up until the final day.<br \/>\nEach day you ski, you are required to document your day of skiing with (1) :15 second video, and (2) photos &#8211; each taken from a different location on the mountain that is on a list that is predetermined by Vail Resorts. <\/p>\n<p>So, on the final day, we will have to be in line first, ski to the three locations we need to get to first, and upload our photos\/video first. The winner is chosen based on when the actual content is UPLOADED, not when you actually have skiied &#8211; so we will have to figure out a good solution on the final day on how to access internet FROM the mountain, ideally from the final spot that we take our photo from. <\/p>\n<p>For those who would like to follow along and aren&#8217;t already doing so on Facebook, you can follow our travels and ski days via the following links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/epicrace.epicpass.com\/leaderboard\" title=\"Overall Epic Race Leaderboard #epicrace\" target=\"_blank\">Overall Epic Race Leaderboard &#8211; #epicrace<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/epicrace.epicpass.com\/racers\/ashley\" title=\"Epic Race Ashley Cooley - Profile Page #epicrace\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Cooley Epic Race Profile Page #epicrace<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/epicrace.epicpass.com\/racers\/hydle\" title=\"Greg Hydle Epic Race Profile Page #epicrace\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Hydle Epic Race Profile Page #epicrace<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/epicrace.epicpass.com\/racers\/nabordevin\" title=\"Devin Rhinehart Epic Race Profile Page #epicrace\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Rhinehart Epic Race Profile Page #epicrace<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wish us luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We might be crazy\u2026or ridiculously out of control awesome, but somehow Hydle, Rhinehart and I decided to go full force and enter the Epic Race\u2026 The &#8220;Epic Race&#8221; which means we\u2019ve decided to try to be three of the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/vail-resorts-epic-race-what-is-it-were-doing-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2967,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2118,618,105,2596,22,21,37,148,6],"tags":[2737,334,2765,2768,109,2996,2766],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2oCe7-2cS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8486"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8493,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions\/8493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}