Winner, winner, chicken dinner!

Actually, this is way better than chicken. Even the fried kind!

Earlier this spring, I giddily blogged about our successful completion of the Ski Maine Peak to Peak challenge (and I also posted in mid-winter about our 750-mile, five mountain, three-day ski marathon to northern Maine). Turns out I had every right to fête our feat of successfully skiing at all of Maine's 17 ski hills/mountains this season. Besides Kyle and me, only six other (I am assuming completely crazy) people met the Peak to Peak challenge! All eight of us were entered to win a Ski Maine VIP pass for 2009-2010 season, and you would have guessed I'd just been booked to shoot Brangelina's wedding if you'd heard my deranged hooting and hollering when Kyle told me that HE'D WON!!!

The pass entitles him to unlimited skiing at any and all Maine mountains next season (Sugarloaf every day, or Camden Snow Bowl, or all 17 again which you know we've already been discussing), and he also gets one day lift ticket at each so he can bring a friend (I so hope it's me). As likely the most photographed Maine skier of 2008-2009 (stop there, ok, you can go, nice big turns, right by me, slow down, come closer, wait, stop), I cannot think of anyone more deserving and I am so proud of him and so, so happy for us! As he wrote on his Facebook wall in response to his win, "There is only one thing better than powder days. Free chairlift rides on powder days!"

The news became official with an announcement in the latest Ski Maine newsletter (see above), which also included a link to our superlatives of Maine's ski scene. Of course, now we're left struggling to select which mountain we should be buying me a pass to, and whether we'll be able to fit a little red carpet in with all our gear in the Volvo to roll out upon Kyle's arrival at each Maine mountain.

Yeah Kyle! And yeah Maine skiing!