If the prospect of speed-dating doesn’t already sound like a death-defying feat, why not try speed-dating at a terrifying height with no (nonfatal) means of escape? On Saturday, the dating site LuvByrd — which we are relieved to report is designed to connect outdoor-sports enthusiasts, not birds with the humans who love them — will host their second annual chairlift speed-dating event in Colorado.
Snow-loving singles will gather at Loveland Ski Area, which is a much more fitting location than runner-up site Mount Crippling Loneliness. The event welcomed 200 attendees in 2015, and organizers are expecting at least that many this weekend. LuvByrd founder Mike Keshian told the Summit Daily News that strangers will be paired up to hit the slopes based on color-coded armbands that denote skiing ability and age. If only the armbands would also reveal the daters who are most likely to spend the ride monologuing about an ex before revealing that, damn, they left their wallet at the lodge, so would you mind treating? Thanks.
Tickets are $48 and include not only the lift ticket but also a free beer, which, thank God. But joke as we might, we can’t deny the power of matchmaking when it works — at least one couple which was brought together by last year’s event is still going strong. One person’s stress dream is another’s meet-cute.