Beards, Miners and Trappers OH MY!
| March 5, 2010 | Written by: ebolling |
It’s not very often that someone you know enters a beard and mustache competition. And it’s not every day that you find out one of your co-worker is competing in the 2010 Mr. Fur Face competition at the Miners and Trappers Ball.
Everyone meet Craig Miller.
As a Maintenance Ambassador at Anchorage Downtown Partnership Ltd., Craig is responsible for keeping our downtown clean and our sidewalks snow free. You can see him almost every day sporting his orange jacket, long hair and complementary long beard shoveling sidewalks, picking up trash and operating heavy machinery in downtown.
Craig first became interested in beard competitions in 2003 when he stumbled across a picture in the newspaper about David Travers who won the World Beard and Mustache Championships.
From then on, Craig was hooked. He vowed to compete in the next competition but soon found out it was going to be held in Europe, forcing Craig to stash his beard dreams away.
Then last year he learned that the World Beard and Mustache Championship would be in Anchorage, Alaska!
Craig entered the Alaskan Whaler category – full beard with no mustache – picture an Amish or Abe Lincoln beard. His hopes were high for placing and thought no one stood a chance because he said he “rarely saw anyone with this type of beard.” However, some locals from the peninsula brought their “Abe” game and stole his thunder leaving Craig with fourth place.
His hopes are still high and he will compete in the 2010 Mr. Fur Face Beard and Mustache Competition at the Fur Rondy Miners and Trappers Ball this Saturday, March 6th at 7:30pm. Craig plans on redeeming his Alaskan Whaler Beard and hopes to bring home the gold!
Come help support Craig Miller and his Alaskan Whaler Beard tomorrow night at the Miners and Trappers Ball at 7:30pm.
GOOD LUCK CRAIG!!!!
For more info visit http://www.minersandtrappersball.org/ or call (907) 279-5650.
