{"id":19828,"date":"2019-05-02T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.nrs.com\/?p=19828"},"modified":"2020-01-15T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T17:45:00","slug":"cant-ski-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.nrs.com\/duct-tape\/2019\/05\/02\/cant-ski-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Ski Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"970\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UMJ47atIGcs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A film by: <a href=\"https:\/\/joeyschusler.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joey Schusler<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benpagefilms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Page<\/a>, &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomaswoodson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Woodson<\/a><br \/>\nPresented By: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outdoorresearch.com\/us\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Outdoor Research<\/a> &amp; NRS<\/p>\n<p>Rafting the Tatshenshini to ski in British Columbia and Alaska required hitting a very slim window of conditions, one that was not promising even days before their departure. With the spring thaw approaching and ten friends ready to chase this dream together, they committed. Whatever that meant.<\/p>\n<p>The group came together as a bachelor party of sorts\u2014ten friends from Boulder, Colorado planning to spend twenty days rafting and skiing, all as Mason\u2019s last big adventure before tying the knot.<\/p>\n<p>On paper, they&#8217;d come in search of the biggest ski lines of their lives. But the reality was that they had simply come to celebrate friendship. To withdraw into the wild, to remove distractions and cell service and emails, and to invest purposeful time into being together. That\u2019s the real meaning of a bachelor party, right?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A film by: Joey Schusler, Ben Page, &amp; Thomas Woodson Presented By: Outdoor Research &amp; NRS Rafting the Tatshenshini to ski in British Columbia and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":18867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[371,507,316,480,39,32],"class_list":["post-19828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-explore","tag-adventure-travel","tag-nrs-films","tag-rafting","tag-skiing","tag-videos-2","tag-whitewater","post-grid"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can&#039;t Ski Vegas | Duct Tape Diaries | NRS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Trying to pull off a raft-to-ski bachelor party on the Tatshenshini River has some inherent challenges. 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