Dressed-up dummies race down ski slope at Oregon resort
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April 12 (UPI) A ski resort in Oregon held an annual event for more than 20 unusual skiers dummies competing to earn their creators a free season pass.
The Mt. Ashland ski resort held its annual Dummy Downhill event Sunday, featuring 20 dummies created by members of the public to race down a slope featuring a large jump to win a free season pass.
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The rules required each dummy to weigh under 125 pounds and be mounted on either two skis or a snowboard. We judge them on creativity, and then we re going to judge them on their run, their craft, their air time, Mt. Ashland General Manager Hiram Towle told KOBI-TV.
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The ski area surpassed its own expectations with about 80,000 visits so far this season.
The average is around 70,000 and there are still about 20 days left in the season, weather-permitting, of course.
General Manager, Hiram Towle, aid one fast growing activity is uphill travel or back country skiing as people use their skis or snowboards to climb the mountains.
Towle said they have an uphill policy allowing the public to do that and it has dramatically grown during the pandemic.
“It opens up so much more terrain because you don’t just have to go to a place with lift service you can pick a mountain that has snow,” Towle said. “It’s just really important that people get that training so they stay safe in the back country,” Towle added.