The Winter Carnival, Family Fun Day and Pacific Northwest National Wife Carrying Contest happens Sunday, Jan. 15 at Lookout Pass Ski and Recreation Area. As the celebrations marquee event, the wife carrying contest generates a lot of curiosity. Lookout Pass is staging our sixth annual wife carrying contest this weekend, but the sport is something of an ancient tradition.

Legend has it that the sport of wife carrying originated in Finland in the late 1800s. A man named Herkko Rosvo-Ronkainen led a gang of thieves who would raid villages, steal food and run off with other mens wives slung across their backs. The sport has evolved into a more benign pastime over the years and is merely goofy, harmless fun at Lookout Pass today. But wife carrying is a serious international sport.

The Wife Carrying World Championships are hosted each July in the Finnish town of Sonkajrven, an event where the winner wins his wifes weight in beer. The events popularity has inspired similar events in the United States, Australia, Ireland and China. The North American Wife Carrying Championships take place on Columbus Day Weekend in October at Sunday River Ski Resort in Newry, Maine. The event awards money to winners for travel expenses to compete in the Finnish world championship.

The wife-carrying competition works just like it sounds a man slings his wife across his back and runs through a course as fast as possible. Several wife carrying techniques have been perfected over the years: piggyback, fireman’s carry (over the shoulder), or the preferred technique of champions, Estonian-style (the wife hangs upside-down with her legs around the husband’s shoulders, holding onto his waist).

The Pacific Northwest National Wife Carrying Contest at Lookout Pass awards a $ 100 grand prize to the ultimate champion, runner up gets $ 50 and third place, $ 25. The wife carrying contest is part of Lookouts Winter Carnival, featuring a snowman building contest, scavenger hunts for kids and adults, face painting, balloon animals, snow volleyball, three-legged family races, egg and spoon races and music in the lodge

About Lookout Pass Ski & Recreation Area

Lookout Pass Ski Area was voted as the Favorite Family Friendly Resort in the Pacific Northwest in April 2011 by users of OnTheSnow.com, one of the worlds most visited web platforms. The resort, entering its 76th season, offers nearly 600 acres of skiing and riding immediately off the Exit 0 off ramp off Interstate-90 on the Idaho/Montana border. The unique location of Lookout Pass at the crest of the Bitterroot Range makes it the Inland Northwests No. 1 Powder Place, with an average of over 400 inches of light, dry powder snow annually. Lookout Pass was recognized for the most snowfall on Planet Earth in the seven-day period ending March 1, 2011 by skiinfo.com. Visitors to OnTheSnow.com, one of the most widely viewed travel sites on the web, voted Lookout Pass Most Family-Friendly Mountain Resort in the Pacific Northwest in April, 2011. Learn more at http://www.skilookout.com.

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One of the known keys to success for many store front and online retailers alike is the ability to maintain momentum throughout the entire shopping season YouSeekIFind.com is providing this momentum by creating a Black Friday sale not only one day but everyday throughout the year.

“Numerous online retailers have decided if Cyber Monday was a success for them, a Cyber Month might be even better” states owner of http://youseekifind.com “Ty Hamilton” This site hosts top shelf stores that are geared up for the holiday with aggressive sale pricing. It is also accommodating for those consumers hunting for those special gifts and don’t have time to browse for those last minute items. Finding that special something is now even easier for today’s shoppers by allowing YouSeekIfind.com to search for bargains for their consumers. This website has a search format that helps both experienced and inexperienced shoppers to find those unique gift bargains they thought were only possible with a one day sale. Consumers simply submit their request and receive terrific deals and savings while trusting an expert to find exactly what their looking for.

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Bluegreen Vacations, a leading provider of Colorful Places to Play, today announced that its Miami resort, Solara Surfside, is a prime location to stay while visiting one of Travel & Leisures coolest new tourist attractions.

While the Miami area offers many reasons for Bluegreen owners to return to their elegant Bluegreen Solar Surfside resort, there is now a new attraction for owners to see on their next trip to their relaxing beachfront resort. While many would guess it was a new amusement park for tourists, a new shopping plaza with the latest stores, a new museum featuring the newest up and coming artist, or even some new art decco sculpture, many would be shocked to find the correct answer would be a parking garage.

Via Yahoo, Travel & Leisure named the 11 11 Lincoln Road Parking Garage in Miami Beach among the coolest new tourist attractions in a recent story. The other 11 new attractions added to the Travel & Leisure list includes: Cancuns Underwater Museum in Mexico; the Capital Gate in Abu Dhabi; the Cheetah Hunt Roller Coaster at Bush Gardens in Tampa, Fla.; the Metropol Parasol in Seville, Spain; the Orbit Tower in London; the Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York City; the Nanjing Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing, China; the Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong; the Strings Bridge in Jerusalem, Israel; the Harpa in Reykjavik; and the Riverside Museum in Glasgow, Scotland.

The parking garage structure, which was designed by Herzog & de Meuron and created by a cast of award-winning architects, artists, landscape architects, and designers, features 11 unique international retail shops and three dining choices along with residential and shopping parking. It sits at the beginning of Lincoln Roads pedestrian promenade.

While our resort provides owners with convenience, comfort and fun, seeing this new structure is surely one of the top things to do while owners are here, said Carlos Martinez, General Manager of Solara Surfside. Our Bluegreen travel guides can assist with not only directions to this parking garage, but also any other additional vacation needs or tours.

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Founded in 1966 and headquartered in Boca Raton, FL, Bluegreen Corporation (NYSE:BXG) is a leading timeshare sales, marketing and resort management company. Bluegreen Resorts manages, markets and sells the Bluegreen Vacation Club, a flexible, points-based, deeded vacation ownership plan with more than 160,000 owners, over 59 owned or managed resorts, and access to more than 4,000 resorts worldwide. Bluegreen also offers a portfolio of comprehensive, turnkey, fee-based service resort management, financial services, and sales and marketing on behalf of third parties. For more information, visit us online at http://www.bluegreencorp.com. See what Bluegreen owners are saying on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.

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