THE
THE WHOLE
THE WHOLE YEAR SHARING THE UPS AND DOWNS OF COLORADO STREAK IN THE SNOW.
I LOVE A LOT OF THINGS BUT
SKIING TO ME WAS ONE WAY UP
HERE.
GOT THAT LOVE AND FEELING JUST
GIVES YOU THAT LOVE AND FEELING
SANITZER THERE'S JUST NOTHING
LIKE IT.
COLORADO CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON
SNOWY PEAKS AND SUNNY SKIES.
WE ALL LOVE IT RIGHT?
WE ALL LOVE CONSISTENCY DEFINES
THIS PLACE LIKE IT DOES FOR
SOME PEOPLE.
I'M KIND OF SUPERSTITIOUS BRIAN
.
I KNOW THIS IS GOING TO SOUND A
LITTLE CRAZY.
IS COLORADO TO HIS CORE WHEN
THESE SKIS WERE DONE AND I GOT
A
HER
HER SKIS
HER SKIS I NEEDED TO TRANSFER THE ENERGY FROM ONE SKI TO THE NEXT.
I WAS MOVING ON TOO SO I WOULD
TAKE ONE OF EACH SKI AND
I LEAVE FOR LIKE A WEEK IN
THE GARAGE LIKE BACK TO BACK.
I SAID LOOK, WE'RE TRANSFERRING
YOUR KARMA, YOUR ENERGY INTO
THE NEW CAR SMELL QUIRKY THING
ABOUT ME, BRIAN CAN'T GIVE UP
WHAT'S BEEN CONSTANT IN LIFE.
I GIVE MY WIFE AND MY DAUGHTER
A HARD TIME FOR ALL THEIR
PURSES.
YEAH, MY DAUGHTER THREW IT IN
MY FACE ABOUT ALL THE SKIS YOU
HAVE DAD AND I WAS NOT I REALLY
COULDN'T HAVE A COME BACK TO
THAT ONE GET HIM TWENTY TWENTY
BEGINS LIKE ANY OTHER YEAR
UNANIMPUS BUT BRIAN WILL BRAVE
MORE THAN BLIZZARDS AS HE
CARVES OUT HIS PLACE IN
COLORADO SKI HISTORY.
I WANT EVERY MONTH IN COLORADO
FOR OR THREE MONTHS ALMOST
TWENTY FIVE YEARS EVERY SINGLE
MONTH SINCE AUGUST OF NINETEEN
NINETY FIVE.
PRETTY SURE THAT'S BALDY AND
GIL BRIAN SKIS TOUCH SNOW
SOMEWHERE IN COLORADO NOW HE'S
SIX MONTHS SHORT OF 300 IN A
ROW.
OH YOU'RE KIDDING.
HE'S SKIED EVERY MONTH.
RESPECT NATSOUND SAY BLAMY AT
FIFTY NINE HE'S JUST AS
OBSESSED PICKED IT UP FELL IN
LOVE WITH IT AS THE KID HIS
PARENTS REMEMBER AND I COULD
NOT BELIEVE HIS SKIING HOW HE
CAME DOWN THOSE HE LOVES IT HE
LOVES IT YOU KNOW I ALWAYS TELL
HIM BE CAREFUL THIS IS A
PICTURE OF ME JUMP THE BIG
HOURSE UP ON JONES PASS.
I WAS PROBABLY 19 OR 20 YEARS
OLD.
HE NEVER SET OUT TO SKI FOR
MONTHS ON END.
THIS WAS A SIN BEFORE THERE WAS
A FRIEND PLANTED THE IDEA AND
IT WILL BE FUN FOREVER SKIING
IS ONE CONSTANT IN BRIAN'S
LIFE.
THE SECOND IS HIS WIFE.
NOW IT'S YOUR TURN TO TALK.
I GET TIRED TALKING.
NO YOU DON'T.
VALERIE VOLUNTEERS FOR A HIKE
BUT SHE DOESN'T MIND SKIPPING A
SKI DAY.
YEAH IT ACTUALLY WORKS GREAT
BECAUSE WE HAVE A VERY
INDEPENDENT LIFE INSIDE OF A
GREAT MARRIAGE.
IT'S TAKEN SOME TIME FOR BRIAN
AND VAL TO FIND BALANCE.
YEAH, I MEAN I PROBABLY IN
THE EARLIER YEARS WHEN THE KIDS
WERE SMALL AND HE WAS WORKING
50 HOURS A WEEK AND ALL THAT,
I PROBABLY RESENTED IT A LITTLE
BIT TO BE HONEST.
I THINK IT'S SOMETHING WITHIN
ME THAT I DON'T REALLY HONESTLY
I DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY CONTROL
OVER.
BRIAN HAS ONE SWITCH IT'S ON OR
IT'S OFF PERIOD.
BRIAN SWITCH STAYS ON EVEN WHEN
TWENTY TWENTY STARTS TO FEEL
OK.
WE'VE GOT A PANDEMIC STARTED IN
CHINA AND IT'S WORKED ITS WAY
AROUND THE WORLD AND SQARE IS
OF ALL CLOSED COVID-19 CLOSE'S
RESORTS AND TURNS BRIAN TO
THE BACK COUNTRY.
YEAH I DON'T THINK I'VE EVER
BEEN IN HERE IN JANUARY,
FEBRUARY, MARCH ANY OF THESE
MONTHS WORRYING IF THE PANDEMIC
WILL STOP THE STREAK IN ITS
TRACKS.
YEAH WITH THE VIRUS HANGING
AROUND US WHO KNOWS WHAT
THE FUTURE HOLDS BUT WE'LL GET
IT DONE AND WE FOUND A NEW AREA
TODAY WHICH I THINK MOST PEOPLE
WILL BE GOING REALLY AND IT WAS
FUN.
YEAH, IT'S FUN.
I I WILL NEVER EVER TAKE FOR
GRANTED AGAIN JUST DRIVING
WHEREVER I WANT TO GO AND
PARKING MY CAR WHEREVER I WANT
TO PARK IT IS SKIING WHEREVER
I WANT TO SKI.
OH YEAH YOU GET THIRSTY YOU GOT
PLENTY OF WATER THE MONTHS KEEP
CLIMBING STEPS AND WAY OUT HERE
HODLEY WILDLIFE SEEMS TO NOTICE
IT ON THE ROCK THERE.
YEAH YEAH BREAKFAST IS
BREAKFAST WAS GRABBING SOME
TURNS ON THE SNOW THAT WAS
FALLING OUT IN JANUARY.
IT'S A GOOD THING OXYG FREE
BECAUSE IF THEY CHARGE FOR IT
I'D BE BROKE IN THE SUMMERS.
IT'S JUST A IT'S A WHOLE
DIFFERENT ANIMAL EVERY EVERY
SINGLE THING ABOUT IT'S
DIFFERENT ALMOST.
YOU KNOW, THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE
DONE IT THEY GET IT THEY GET IT
BIG TIME AND IF YOU HAVEN'T
DONE IT THEY PROBABLY THINK
YOU'VE GOT A FEW SCRUTINIZING,
YOU KNOW, FIRST OF ALL, YOU'VE
GOT TO GET ON SEFERINO TO GET
IT DONE BUT THIS WILL BE THREE
HUNDRED MONTHS.
TWENTY FIVE AND AUGUSUT DAY
FEELS DIFFERENT THAN IT DID IN
NINETY FIVE.
WELL ONCE YOU GET STARTED IT
KIND OF FEEDS ITSELF.
IT'S HOLY.
YEAH BECAUSE BRIAN HAS COMPANY
HIS BROTHER DAVID HE WOULDN'T
MISS THIS MOUNTAIN THIS
MILESTONE AND NEITHER WOULD
BRIAN SKI BUDDIES GOT ALL
MY ROWDY FRIENDS WITH US YOU
KNOW I'VE NEVER HAD
THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO ANY
OF THE SUMMER SKIING WITH HIM
SO THIS IS REALLY SPECIAL FOR
ME.
OTHERS HAVE SQARE THOUSANDS
OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS OR EVEN
MORE MONTHS IN A ROW.
YEAH, BUT IN 300 MONTHS
OF COLORADO SKIING CONDITIONS
HAVE NEVER BEEN SO PERFECT.
IT FEELS GREAT.
IT'S JUST I CAN'T REALLY
COMPARE IT TO ANYTHING REALLY
IT'S YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST IT'S
GREAT.
IT'S A GREAT FEELING.
TWENTY FIVE YEARS FIRST ORSUTO
THANKS MAN.
THAT WAS KILLER.
YOU LOOK AT TWENTY FIVE YEARS
OF YOUR LIFE AND EVERYTHING
THAT HAPPENED YOU KNOW
THE POSITIVRY NEGATIVE,
THE CHALLENGES, THE JOYS IT
MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER.
I'M GETTING TIRED.
HE'S HAD THIS CONSTANT YOU
KNOW, THE STREAK HAS BEEN A
CONSTANT WITHIN THAT SEATES
THERE WAS JUST TREMENDOUS
ABSOLUTELY TREMENDOUS MAKES YOU
PROUD A YEAR WENT BY THREE
YEARS OF MY FIVE YEARS OF MY
TEN YEARS WITH MY AND HERE WE
ARE AT TWENTY FIVE YEARS MEAN
IT BLOWS MY MIND TO FOR EVERY
SKI DAY BRIAN KNOWS HE
SACRIFICED ONE AT HOME RIGHT
NOW FAMILY IS THE ONLY CONSTANT
THAT MATTERS.
SORRY LITTLE OVERWHELMING.
NO THEY'RE IN THERE IN OTMAL
IT'S LIKE THEY KNOW I'M A
WINGNUT YOU KNOW I'VE BEEN
DOING THIS FOR A LONG TIME AND
IT'S JUST LIKE I JUST KIND
OF GOT AWAY FROM ALL OF THIS
BUT THEY'RE TOTALLY SUPPORTIVE
.
TWENTY FIVE YEARS.
YEAH BROTHER MAY BE JUST
THE BEGINNING.
WHY WOULD HE STOP?
WELL, WHAT THE ELSE IS HE
GOING TO DO?
THREE HUNDRED AND THREE MONTHS
NOW I'M SHOOTING FOR SEVENTY TO
GET IT IN EVERY SINGLE MONTH
CONSISTENTLY FOR TWENTY FIVE
MINUTES LIKE IT'S A PRETTY BIG
DEAL IF YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT
STUFF I ONLY DO BECAUSE I'M
MARRIED TO HELP THREE AND FOUR
AND FINISHED THE HOUSING TWENTY
BUY BUY EVEN IN TWENTY TWENTY
ONE HERE COLORADO STILL BRINGS
SUN AND SNOW.
WE HAD MORE OBSTACLES THIS LAST
TWELVE MONTHS THAN I HAD IN
THE PREVIOUS TWENTY FOUR YEARS.
PUT IT AS LONG AS COLORADO
KEEPS IT UP DETANGLING BRIAN
WE'LL SKI DOWN IT'S JUST BECOME
SO ONE WITH ME THAT IT IS I'M
GOING TO EAT I'M GOING TO SLEEP
AND I'M GOING TO SKI YEAH SO
KEEP GOING