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Book Signing with Author Kim Kircher
February 4th: Book Signing with Kim Kircher
Author Kim Kircher will be signing copies of her new memoir "The Next Fifteen Minutes" (Behler, 2011), which takes readers on a wild ride of salvation, finding answers to a scary diagnosis on the ski slopes. Stop by the Summit Hotel Upper Lobby from 3:30-5pm for hot chocolate and chatting with the author herself.
http://kimkircher.com/the-next-fifteen-minutes/
Author Bio - Kim Kircher:
Ski patroller, author, traveller, Kim Kircher is still learning how to get through life in small increments. Sometimes just fifteen minutes at a time. She has logged over six hundred hours of explosives control, earning not only her avalanche blaster’s card, but also a heli-blaster endorsement, allowing her to fly over the slopes in a helicopter and drop bombs from the open cockpit, while uttering the fabulously thrilling words “bombs away” into the mic. An EMT, she has received both a National Ski Patrol Purple Merit Star for saving a life as well as a Green Merit Star for saving a life in arduous conditions. Before working in the ski industry, she received her BA and teaching certificate from the University of Washington, and taught high school English for five years. Her articles have appeared in Women’s Adventure, Couloir Magazine and Off-Piste Magazine, among others. She is a current member of the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association and the North American Ski Journalists Association. Kim also writes about her job at Crystal Mountain Ski Area at www.blogcrystal.com. Kim starred in a reality show about ski patrollers on the cable channel TRU-TV. Her husband’s family owns and operates ten ski areas in the United States and Canada, including Crystal Mountain, where she has worked for twenty-one years.
Passion for the outdoors runs in her family; her great grandfather once held the astonishing title of world champion log roller, a moniker he earned through his years travelling with the circus. Her parents have been ski instructors for forty years, and at an early age, instilled in her the “powder bug” that shaped her life. Her greatest pleasure is standing on top of the King, the highest peak at Crystal Mountain, and looking down on 1,400 vertical feet of powder snow. Currently, she is at work on a novel.
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