{"id":2455316,"date":"2020-03-03T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/family-of-late-buttermilk-patroller-jaime-turdryn-gets-support-from-defiance-challenge-at-sunlight-resort\/"},"modified":"2020-03-03T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T04:44:00","slug":"family-of-late-buttermilk-patroller-jaime-turdryn-gets-support-from-defiance-challenge-at-sunlight-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/family-of-late-buttermilk-patroller-jaime-turdryn-gets-support-from-defiance-challenge-at-sunlight-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of late Buttermilk patroller Jaime Turdryn gets support from Defiance Challenge at Sunlight Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.60348583878\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-322013-118\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/DefianceChallenge-gpi-030420-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/DefianceChallenge-gpi-030420-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Provided | Past Defiance Challenge participants Aidan Corcoran and Bennett Walter leave the lift area en route to one of their several ski runs.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Past Defiance Challenge participants Aidan Corcoran and Bennett Walter leave the lift area en route to one of their several ski runs.<\/strong><br \/>Provided<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/DefianceChallenge-gpi-030420-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Past Defiance Challenge participants Aidan Corcoran and Bennett Walter leave the lift area en route to one of their several ski runs.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/DefianceChallenge-gpi-030420-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/DefianceChallenge-gpi-030420-1-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Provided | Participants in a past Defiance Challenge event race to their skis at the start of the 10-hour competition.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Participants in a past Defiance Challenge event race to their skis at the start of the 10-hour competition.<\/strong><br \/>Provided<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/DefianceChallenge-gpi-030420-1-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Participants in a past Defiance Challenge event race to their skis at the start of the 10-hour competition.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/DefianceChallenge-gpi-030420-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/DefianceChallenge-gpi-030420-2-1024x673.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Provided | A past Defiance Challenge team of patrollers from Wisconsin celebrate at the finish.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-2\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>A past Defiance Challenge team of patrollers from Wisconsin celebrate at the finish.<\/strong><br \/>Provided<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/DefianceChallenge-gpi-030420-2-1024x673.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"A past Defiance Challenge team of patrollers from Wisconsin celebrate at the finish.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/DefianceChallenge-gpi-030420-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/DefianceChallenge-gpi-030420-3-576x1024.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Provided | Chance Balis, right, and Zeva Carruth at a past Defiance Challenge event.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>Chance Balis, right, and Zeva Carruth at a past Defiance Challenge event.<\/strong><br \/>Provided<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/DefianceChallenge-gpi-030420-3-576x1024.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Chance Balis, right, and Zeva Carruth at a past Defiance Challenge event.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/family-of-late-buttermilk-patroller-jaime-turdryn-gets-support-from-defiance-challenge-at-sunlight-resort\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/family-of-late-buttermilk-patroller-jaime-turdryn-gets-support-from-defiance-challenge-at-sunlight-resort\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Friday\u2019s annual Defiance Challenge ski endurance event at Sunlight Mountain Resort isn\u2019t just about getting pumped up for 10 hours straight. It\u2019s also about honoring the hard work of the volunteer ski patrol, while remembering one of their own who has passed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A portion of the proceeds from this year\u2019s Defiance Challenge will be donated in the memory of former Buttermilk Mountain patroller Jaime Tudryn, who died Christmas Day 2018 at age 33 from complications related to a brain aneurism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Jaime\u2019s husband, Matt Tudryn, also a former Buttermilk patroller who now lives in Massachusetts, plans to use the money raised for the college education fund of the couple\u2019s now 2-year-old son, Bode.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s an honor, and it shows just how much of an impact Jaime had during the time we lived out there,\u201d Tudryn said Tuesday in a phone interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Jaime was an avid skier all her life and skied competitively in high school and college.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cTo be able to carry that out the rest of her life and turn it into a career was a great thing for her, and obviously made an impact on people,\u201d Matt Tudryn said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Though he and Bode now live in Massachusetts where he works as a firefighter paramedic, he said they maintain some ties to Jaime\u2019s family in the Roaring Fork Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Defiance Challenge organizers hope to attract up to 50 two-person teams to participate in the annual charity event Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The event challenges teams to complete the most runs down the mountain in a 10-hour period, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday. The entry fee of $155 covers a pair of lift tickets, commemorative T-shirts and hats, and an after-event party including a silent auction, dinner and awards ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As of Tuesday, event organizer Cindy Henderson said there were 17 teams registered, so there\u2019s still plenty of space. Registration is available online, or on the morning of the event starting at 6:15 a.m. at the Sunlight base lodge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Skiers still looking for a partner to participate in the event can call in advance at 970-945-9425 to see if others are looking to be paired up. Volunteers are also still needed to help with the event. Contact Michelle Eisenring at <a href=\"mailto:micwhalen@yahoo.com\">micwhalen@yahoo.com<\/a> to sign up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Half the event proceeds go to support the Sunlight Volunteer Ski Patrol, a nonprofit organization that has provided emergency medical care, safety and rescue services at the small ski area for more than 50 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Defiance Challenge features a Le Mans-style start outside the base lodge. A starting gun signals participants to sprint to their waiting skis or snowboards, clip into their bindings, then scramble in a mad rush to the chairlift for the ride to the top of the mountain to begin racking up as many descents as possible on 40 different expert runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Every double-black diamond run on the mountain and several tree runs are included.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cFor safety reasons, team partners must stick together and log each completed run at the scorers\u2019 table before loading the chairlift for another ride to the top,\u201d according to a description of the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Last year\u2019s Challenge was won by local skiers Bobby Lombardi and Joel Schute, who each completed 46 runs for a total of about 70,000 vertical feet. Lombardi also completed 46 runs in 2016 with ski partner and Sunlight ski patroller Tom Brunner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Though some participants in past events have come from out of state and elsewhere around Colorado, most are from the Glenwood Springs area. They\u2019ve also run the gamut in age from 6 to 64.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThe youngest entrant, Kai Clauson, was the son of Silverton Mountain ski patroller John Clauson, whose family received Defiance Challenge funds in 2013 after he died from acute leukemia,\u201d according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The seven previous Defiance Challenge events have raised thousands of dollars for the families of patrollers killed or injured by avalanche, fire, helicopter crash and an explosives accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Past honorees have included:<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u2014 Mark Gage, Loveland Basin<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u2014 John Clauson, Silverton Mountain<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u2014 Rocky Scott Miles, Copper Mountain<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u2014 Jesse Williams, Powderhorn Resort<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u2014 Dave Repsher, a flight nurse from Breckenridge who was badly burned in a helicopter crash<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u2014 Joe Zuiches, Winter Park and Squaw Valley, Calif.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Sunlight\u2019s mountain manager, Mike Baumli, helped to organize the resort\u2019s first Defiance Challenge in 2012. He said he was inspired by a similar 13-hour \u201cEnduro\u201d event at Arapahoe Basin ski area that has been going on for three decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThere are other endurance events out there,\u201d Baumli said, \u201cbut we wanted to do something for both skiers and snowboarders that would showcase our mountain\u2019s character, charm and all it has to offer \u2014 including the lifts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Baumli said the retro two-seat chairlifts at Sunlight are an important part of the Defiance Challenge experience, since the relatively slow 12-minute ride to the top of the main Primo lift is about the only time participants have a chance to eat, drink and catch their breath before the next run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Challenge gets its name from Sunlight\u2019s Defiance run on the East Ridge \u2014 a steep, north-facing trail that\u2019s long been a favorite of expert skiers and boarders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\"><span class=\"Body Copy Italic\"><a href=\"mailto:jstroud@postindependent.com\">jstroud@postindependent.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/family-of-late-buttermilk-patroller-jaime-turdryn-gets-support-from-defiance-challenge-at-sunlight-resort\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Past Defiance Challenge participants Aidan Corcoran and Bennett Walter leave the lift area en route to one of their several ski runs.Provided Participants in a past Defiance Challenge event race to their skis at the start of the 10-hour competition.Provided A past Defiance Challenge team of patrollers from Wisconsin celebrate at the finish.Provided Chance Balis, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2455316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 12:34:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}