SWAP's are the devil!

This weekend started off in Vail at the ski and snowboard club of Vail ski swap. It is held in the Dobson ice arena in Vail. Thousands of people attend this event to purchase new and used ski equipment for the upcoming season. The Arena is filled to the brim with thousands of pairs of skis, snowboards, jackets pants, boots, hats gloves, one pieces...etc. No matter how organized the gear may be Friday morning, as soon as the first 10 people are let through the door, the place goes to shit. Finding what you want is like finding a needle in a haystack, which as we all learned from mythbusters, is possible just very dirty and time intensive.

The only thing that made the swap bearable was that they served beer.

Saturday brought over 500 vendors to the Denver western complex for the Veloswap. This event was slightly easier to navigate because it was set up by individual vendors. With these vendors, if someone had a big pile of junk on their table you could simply walk by it. Walking through the western complex was what i think it would be like to walk through the magical place behind your dryer. You know, the place where all the lost socks go. Of the 500+ vendors, 487 of them were selling boxes upon boxes of socks. It was heaven for the sock elves. they could go around stealing socks all day and no one would be the wiser. by the time someone got home and they had an odd number of socks they would assume the lost one on the trek back around the block to their car.

Overall, swaps are the devil. They throw overstimulating at your already overloaded brain until you cant remember what you have at home and what you came to buy and you try to buy everything, until you realize your broke.

Remember, Only 211 days until the spring kayak swap!