George Anatiotis was a kid from Cheyenne when his church youth group loaded up for a ski trip to Snowy Range Ski Area sometime around 1985.

Like most of his fellow beginners, he showed up in blue jeans.

"Yeah, it was a rough day," said Anatiotis, now the owner of Rock on Wheels bike and ski shop in Cheyenne.

The moisture from his body soaked into the denim. Then it froze. The jeans crinkled and hardened like wet laundry left out on a clothesline after a blizzard blows in.

"And then as we got older and got into the ski business, we understood why," Anatiotis said. He advises against donning denim for a day on the slopes. Unless it’s for a good cause.

The event features $35 lift tickets, rental discounts, a mechanical bull, live music and après-ski celebrations that promise to look like

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