Skifahren Xtravaganza turns 3

The crew, sans Dan & Kat, who were off on a wild beacon chase.

They came from far-off places like San Francisco, Geneva, Paris and Munich for one weekend, one reason: women’s semi-professional arm wrestling.

Oh, and there was skiing, too.

Three years ago the buddymollys hijacked Tom Roderick’s annual business-turned-ski trip in Basel, and the tradition has continued to flourish.

This year, the group, now 15 strong, headed to Kitzbuhel, Austria, where they found reasonably priced lodging in otherwise not-even-close-to-our-budget town.

The hostel owner, Dave, a Kiwi who also served in the British army, kept everyone engaged with his stories and extensive MTV real world style camera bank (if you've ever stayed at Snowbunny's or had an incident outside, there's probably footage somewhere). The second night he invited us to join his massive barbecue, replete with steaks, garlic-infused pork belly burgers and the best straight from the bottle glühwein ever.

When they weren’t barreling down the slopes, the group holed up in the hostel’s basement for their own après ski gatherings to rekindle old friendships over home-cooked food, Austrian beer and monumental games of Catchphrase.

Let’s just say “Circumference of the Earth” almost caused a brawl.

Is Skifahren IV in the cards, and if so, where will it be held? Like the lost footage of the infamous arm wrestling bout, that remains to be seen.