About Us

We are, to a person, dedicated to our community and unified in our abundant appreciation for its role in defining each of our lives.

 

The Greenspeed Project is a loosely organized group of backcountry athletes, collectively possessing copious amounts nearly worthless knowledge. We are ditch-diggers, ski tuners, latte-makers and shit-shovelers. Despite our humble backgrounds, what we do have is a united love of outdoor sport and of the vast, yet vulnerable open spaces that surround our community.

We are hikers. We are mountain bikers. We are skiers, snowboarders, Nordic skiers and motorcyclists. We downhill and we ride XC. We are roadies and yeah, a few of us even have a horse or two in the barn. Is there a world-class athlete or two toiling away in obscurity under our masthead? Yeah, there might be, rabbit. But mostly we’re just average Joes (& Jills!) who enjoy a good ride as much as a race. Some of us are jocks. All of us are fans.

Dangerously armed with the random tidbits of experience one collects in a decade or three in the mountains, we put our minds to the task of integrating our individually worthless, yet collectively powerful mish-mash of abilities. Our intent? To create a meaningful and relevant way to lend a hand to the very thing that so enriches all of our lives; the great outdoors.

Blessed (cursed?) with a relatively useless skill set, It became obvious that while our skills wouldn’t help us much in the way of selling, buying or processing anything (thank you, Lloyd Dobbler) by virtue of our experience, we could craft ambitious events held here in Summit County’s backcountry, events whose only limitations were our imaginations and our willingness to roll up our sleeves.

It’s a given that we’re dreamers – we’re all ski bums, right? And I mentioned that we’re ditch-diggers already, right? Thus possessing both the requisite intangibles and a sheltering optimism, The Greenspeed Project was born in the fall of 2008. We produce kick-ass backcountry events for skiers and riders. And we use the bread we make to underwrite improvements and maintenance in our lovely and sprawling backyard.

Wanna know what our events are all about? Start thinking about why your dog hangs its head out of your car window – that’s as good a place as any to start. And if you still don’t get it, well, you know the old expression, “if you have to ask…”