Ski trip with Olympians part of foundation auction
The Flathead Valley Ski Education Foundation’s new coach and Olympic silver medalist Hilary Lindh will join 10 successful auction bidders for a day of backcountry skiing in January with Great Northern Powder Guides.
The spots will be auctioned off during the 2016 Showcase of the Chefs Dinner, Wine Tasting and Auction at The Lodge at Whitefish Lake on Friday, Nov. 18.
Other auction items include a ski day with Whitefish Olympian Maggie Voisin, weekend ski trips, a guided geology and glaciology field trip in Glacier National Park and a weeklong guided Bob Marshall Wilderness trip. Also on the auction block is weekend golf packages, dinners at local restaurants, skydiving, guided fishing trips and a season-long reserved parking spot above Ed & Mully’s at Whitefish Mountain Resort.
“Our auction seems to get bigger every year, and thanks to Hilary, Maggie Voisin and Great Northern Powder Guides, this year is no exception,” FVSEF executive director Tim Hinderman said.
Lindh has skied competitively since age 14, and since won the world championship for downhill in 1997 and took second in the 1992 Olympics. Lindh was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 2005.
The showcase theme this year is “A Tribute to Ullr,” the Norse god of skiing, snowshoes and hunting. Chefs from Wasabi, Last Chair Kitchen and Bar, Whitefish Lake Restaurant, the Boat Club, Three Forks Grille and Pescado Blanco will prepare dinner.
The showcase is hosted by FVSEF each year to celebrate Whitefish’s skiing history and raise money for the Whitefish Mountain Race Team and the Ski Heritage Center Museum of Skiing.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $85 per person in advance and $95 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at Sportsman Ski Haus in Kalispell and Whitefish, Great Northern Cycle & Ski, The Lodge at Whitefish Lake and at www.fvsef.org.
All proceeds from the showcase benefit the Flathead Valley Ski Education Foundation and the Ski Heritage Center Museum of Skiing.
Contact Tim Hinderman at 406-885-2730 or visit www.fvsef.org for more information.