An “embarrassment of riches” is an idiom that’s said to have derived from a French play in the 1700s — an acknowledgment that one can enjoy so much of a good thing that it seems silly.
Karl Fostvedt’s collection of cutting room floor footage is an embarrassment of riches.
Average Joe would kill to have a highlight reel half as good to document their season, but the freeskier’s contributions to Return to Send’er were so plentiful that the footage that got left out deserved its own compilation. The genius in it all, of course, is that this is exactly the stuff Average Joe needs in the northern hemisphere as we prep for winter. He’s frothing. He’s scheming. He’s already looking at his calendar and marking the days he can strategically call in sick through the coming months…yeah, guys like Karl Fostvedt are taking one for the team, providing a service to the rest of us, and reminding common folk that no matter how many days we do get on the hill this year, somebody else is stashing even more highlights.
