Wilderness women: Every year, women come from all over North America to prove themselves in Alaska's wildest competition
J Thoendell stashed this in Sports
Source: http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2014/1/...
Every year, the Talkeetna Bachelor Society hosts an auction to raise money for Alaskan women and children in crisis. The goods that they auction off? Themselves. For 33 years, women — mainly from the nearby city of Anchorage, home to half the state's population — have traveled to this small town of almost 1,000 just south of Denali National Park to spend their tax-deductible dollars on a date with one of Talkeetna's most eligible single men. It's a humorous fundraiser for a serious cause — a portion of the money raised goes to a fund specifically aimed at getting abused women out of Alaska's remote, fly-in communities, places that they might otherwise be literally unable to escape. And it's the type of event that would only succeed, to the scale it has, in a place like Alaska.
Stashed in: Philanthropy!, Alaska
Looks fun and interesting, a good way to break up the monotony of winter ;)
And yet, I could never see something like this working in a place like California.
Major changes, and it might have a chance in a small town in California ;)
Different competitions, more California oriented. Maybe a wine bottling competition, code writing competition, acting, and something to do with the beach, maybe volleyball ;)
3:15 PM Jan 09 2014