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Chile Heads & Friends |
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Bowers Chile Pepper Food Festival flyer.
(I've only seen it at the hotel.) |
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Parking entrance to the festival park.
The location was ideal, and the day was warm and sunny.
Lots of booths with food, hot sauces and other chile items. |
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Horse-drawn cart leaving downtown Bowers towards Jim
Weaver's farm. (With the hottest pepper patch that I know of.) |
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Some chilehead rogues:
Jeff, Rich, Tammy, Doug, Chip's head, Bob, and =Mark. |
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Karen Stober and RisaG |
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Some of the crowd awaiting the contest. |
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More of the crowd awaiting the contest. |
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Chip Welsh, winner of the chili cookoff, at his booth. |
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Jeff Porter, major cheerleader,
Doug, warming up with a cigar,
Bracketed by Rich and Mark Stevens. |
Jalapeño Chomp Contest |
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The challenge: Monster, devil Jalapeños,
grown in a secret garden to be extremely hot. |
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Contestants on the left. |
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More Contestants on the right. |
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There they go!
(With judge carefully checking Doug out.) |
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Doug Barnhart, the winner for the second year!
(6 in 30 seconds -- Really.) |
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Doug has this unnatural thing for chile peppers. |
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Chilehead friends with the winner, including
Joanne making a rare appearance (in the back) and
Janie (from Cross Country Nursery) on the right. |
Bowers Hotel Pics |
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Cozy bar, good & inexpensive beer on tap, and excellent food. |
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Very serious group having dinner at the hotel. |
