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The Fun Continues In AK

So after a nice relaxing day after lying in bed yesterday, I finally got my broken body out of the yurt and into the mountains. We got an early start, but ended up waiting for avalanche debris to be cleared from the highway, then Josh remembered that he’d forgotten his boots/skis, so we finally got going around ten. We did a really mellow tour on a mountain called “Sun Burst.” The snow wasn’t super stable and it was a little crusty, so Corky Still and I ended up doing some sweet powder-8’s for the camera. Then the group mobbed (snow plowed) through the lower death crust to the cars.

On our way back to the yurt we stopped on the side of the road to play in the mud to get some sweet “lifestyle” shots. Having not acted like a 4-year-old in at least a week, I jumped on the opportunity:

Playing In The Mud

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March 31, 2010 | Categories: Day to Day Skiing | Tags: avalanche, avalanche debris, body, boots, Burst, cars, Continues, Corky, crust, death, debris, flagallery, fun, Gallery, gid, group, heâ, highway, Josh, lifestyle, lying in bed, mountain, mountains, mud, opportunity, Powder, side, skis, snow, stable, start, sun, tour, Yesterday, yurt | Comments Off

AK Comp Update #3

Yesterday was the last day of the Telepalooza World Comp. After hiking the Headwall four times in order to compete in both Alpine and Telemark I made it into both Super Finals!!! In the Telemark Super Final I pioneered a gnarly line, billy goating down a narrow 65° rocky face named the “Headstone.” From the Headstone i dropped into a chute, and then skied back into exposure as i hit a few features on the spine on the left side of the chute. I continued to down into the skirt making fast tele-turns through the sluff/avalanche debris fields. I stomped the telemark super final run, but a bobble/hipcheck from the day before kept me from reaching the top spot, I ended up in 6th place.

The Alpine super final didn’t go as smoothly, I skied the same line down the Headstone (it had considerably less snow the second time) all was well as I made my way to hit the other, higher scoring, spine on the right hand side. However, after I aired a small feature near the top, my skies loaded up, threw me, and I got high-sided. I rag-dolled over rocks and down the steep face, and I was finally able to use my pole to self-arrest after having it break three times on previous attempts. I saw blood pouring from my face and I immediately waved for help. Thanks to my helmet, spine-guard and mouth-guard I only ended up with a broken pair of goggles, a broken pole, a broken nose, a few cuts on my face, and a black eye… I did however, win the “Tough Guy Award” for both hiking up the head-wall a total of six times, and getting my self together and skiing down after my crash. I’m going to take a day off, but I might be up for night skiing later…

Ak Crash Aftermath

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March 27, 2010 | Categories: Freeskiing Competitions | Tags: alpine, avalanche debris, black eye, chute, comp, debris fields, Exposure, feature, goggles, Guy Award, hand, headstone, helmet, hiking, hipcheck, mouth guard, pair, pole, rocky face, second time, self arrest, six times, skiing, skirt, spine, spot, steep face, telemark, Telepalooza, three times, tonight, total, tough guy, World, world comp, Yesterday | 1 Comment »

AK Comp Update #2

I’m exhausted from today so I’m quoting Brooke…

“Everyone killed it today on the headwall at Alyeska Resort! Huge kudos go out to star telemark athletes: Paul Kimbrough, Jake Sakson and Conor Davis who hiked the Headwall (A HUGE STEEP FACE) FOUR times to compete in two runs tele and two runs alpine (on tele gear) and all three are advancing to the super-finals tomorrow in both disciplines! Way to represent for our sport!” -Brooke Edwards

AK Day 1

[img alt="" src="http://www.conordavis.com/wp-content/flagallery/ak-day-1/thumbs/thumbs_picture-1.png"]Paul Kimbrough, Jake Sakson, Conor Davis
BILL ROTH / Anchorage Daily News [img alt="" src="http://www.conordavis.com/wp-content/flagallery/ak-day-1/thumbs/thumbs_picture-5.png"]Jake Sakson
shred alert! BILL ROTH / Anchorage Daily News [img alt="" src="http://www.conordavis.com/wp-content/flagallery/ak-day-1/thumbs/thumbs_picture-4.png"]Conor Davis
BILL ROTH / Anchorage Daily News [img alt="" src="http://www.conordavis.com/wp-content/flagallery/ak-day-1/thumbs/thumbs_picture-2.png"]Conor Davis
BILL ROTH / Anchorage Daily News [img alt="" src="http://www.conordavis.com/wp-content/flagallery/ak-day-1/thumbs/thumbs_picture-6.png"]Hiking Up The Headwall
BILL ROTH / Anchorage Daily News [img alt="" src="http://www.conordavis.com/wp-content/flagallery/ak-day-1/thumbs/thumbs_picture-7.png"]Paul Kimbrough
sending BILL ROTH / Anchorage Daily News

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March 26, 2010 | Categories: Freeskiing Competitions | Tags: alignnone, alpine, Alyeska, blockquote, Brooke, brooke edwards, caption, class, comp, Conor, Davis, disciplines, everyone, FACE, FOUR, headwall, height, HUGE, Jake Sakson, paul kimbrough, som, sport, STEEP, steep face, tele, telemark, today, Update, www.conordavis.com | Comments Off

AK Comp Update #1

I’ve been in Alaska for three days now, the skiing has been good, but this morning we woke up to a foot of new snow up top. After a great breakfast, Jake Sakson, Paul Kimbrough (Who drove their modified ski-bum ambulance form Colorado) and I went to go shred Alyeska resort. We met up with the rest of the Tele Crew: Paige Brady, Corky Still, Candy Froerer, Dave Magoffin, etc… The snow got to be a little heavy down low but we still had a sick day! Comp Run tomorrow morning and we’re all super stoked to ski some AK mountain niceness.

Jake Sakson's ski-bum ambulance, it runs on grease!!!

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March 24, 2010 | Categories: Freeskiing Competitions | Tags: alaska, Alyeska, ambulance, brady, breakfast, candy, Candy Froerer, class, Colorado, comp, Corky, Crew, Dave Magoffin, foot, form, grease, href, Jake Sakson, mountain, new snow, paige, paul kimbrough, rest, Run, shred, sick day, ski bum, skiing, tele, tomorrow, tomorrow morning, Update, weâ, width | 2 Comments »

Hanging Out In The SLC Airport

It has been a crazy season, it seem as though I’ve been everywhere but home lately. I did have five days in Sun Valley in between Kirkwood and Crested Butte, but it seems that all my time goes into working hard to pay for the next adventure. Speaking of which, I’m currently sitting in the Salt Lake City Airport waiting to get on a plane headed for Alaska! I’m going to be competing in the World Extreme Freeskiing Telemark Championships in Alyeska, and I’ve been invited to go on a yurt trip to film with Telemark Skier Magazine after the comp. I’ll try to update as the adventure continues depending on my internet situation…

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March 24, 2010 | Categories: Freeskiing Competitions | Tags: alaska, Alyeska, crazy season, crested butte, extreme freeskiing, internet situation, kirkwood, next adventure, salt lake city airport, skier magazine, slc airport, sun valley | Comments Off

Jumping Up & Down The Latter

I just got done with the 14th annual Extreme Freeskiing Telemark Championships in Crested Butte, CO. The comp went really well I qualified in 3^rd place on Headwall, and after three runs on Sock-it-to-me/Little-Hourglass I jumped from 3^rd to 2^nd to 5^th. Although I would have liked to stay in the top three, I’m perfectly content with a 5^th place finish at nationals (still in the $$$ too)! Tomorrow morning I’m driving over to Salt Lake to catch the awards for my fix-heeled friends at the FWT world champ awards, stash my car, and then catch a plane up to Alaska!

Check Out Telemark Skier’s Video for the CB comp: