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Former Olympians Headline Ski Foundation Auction

Olympic and World Champion skier Picabo Street is scheduled to visit Whitefish in January

By Beacon Staff

A pair of familiar Olympians is joining a fundraiser for the Flathead Valley Ski Education Foundation.

Olympic and World Champion skier Picabo Street is scheduled to visit Whitefish in January. On Jan. 22, Street will join Great Northern Powder Guides and 10 successful auction bidders for a day of backcountry cat skiing. On Jan. 23, she will be the guest of honor cheering on junior ski racers from throughout Montana competing in the Northern Division USSA Races at Whitefish Mountain Resort.

The spots to join Street on the cat-ski trip will be the auctioned at the 2016 Showcase of the Chefs Dinner, Wine Tasting and Auction to be held at the Lodge at Whitefish Lake on Nov. 20.

Other auction items include a ski day with Whitefish’s own Olympian Maggie Voisin; a gourmet dinner for eight prepared in your home by award winning chef Andy Blanton of Café Kandahar; weekend ski trips to Fernie, BC, and Alta, Utah; a seven-day guided Bob Marshall Wilderness trip for teens; a two-day three-night Sun Valley, Idaho, golf package; guided mountain bike trips in the Canadian Rockies; and many more items.

“Thanks to Picabo and Maggie Voisin, our auction this year will be bigger and better than ever!” said Tim Hinderman, FVSEF executive director. “We’re focusing on some one-of-a-kind experience-type items in addition to all the great donated items that we receive from merchants from all over the valley.”

Street grew up in Triumph, Idaho and began her ski racing career in Sun Valley. She went on to spend 13 years on the US Ski Team, winning Olympic Gold in the Super G at Nagano, Japan in 1998 and World Championship Gold in the Downhill at Sierra Nevada, Spain in 1996. She also competed at Whitefish Mountain Resort (then Big Mountain) in 2001 in the US National Championships.

The Showcase of The Chef’s is hosted each year by FVSEF to celebrate important milestones from Whitefish’s skiing history and to raise money for the Race Team and the proposed Ski Heritage Center Museum of Skiing.

All proceeds from Showcase benefit the Flathead Valley Ski Education Foundation and the Ski Heritage Center Museum of Skiing.