By: A Little Birdy
Visit the world's most EXTREME mayor at Outdoor Retailers Summer Market Show, which is taking place Friday through Monday at the Salt Palace Convention Center and the EnergySolutions Arena. About 1,050 companies will be exhibiting products for buyers, retailers and manufacturers. Along with legitimate sports industry folk, there will be the "High adventure" Mayor of Ogden, Utah, working like a carney, and running a booth.
Check out the high-adventure mayor in Booth 32016.What a waste of time and taxpayer dollars. I hope they are not still handing out that awful Hitzig gondola DVD piece with the world class cheesy explosion to people visiting the Ogden booth.
Descente/DNA are not listed as exhibitors, but what do you want to bet they are at the show, hanging with Matty? Salomon has booth 32201 and Suunto has booth 20015. Atomic is not registered, nor is Goode.
I heard from a reliable source that at Tuesday's 8/5/08 Ogden City Council work session Brandon Stephenson proposed to the Council that he use his education and travel funds to sell Ogden at these Outdoor Retailer type shows. I guess he wants to "party" with his idol Godfrey, heheh. What happens in Salt Lake STAYS in Salt Lake City, I guess.
A flabby middle aged balding man who has not spent much time outside his yard, who considers his church scout trips to be all the "high adventure" activity you need to give you street cred wants to try to sell our fair city and surrounding recreational jewels to these "extreme high adventure" folk who are going to swarm the city and save us from certain decay. Does he not know that most of the people at these trade shows actually participate in the activities they sell gear for and they like to enjoy the barley pop? Those who actually climb and surf and are not impressed by downtown icicles or artificial waves...Uggggggggggh!
