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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 »

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:

Day 1 Highlights US Telemark Extremes 2010 from Telemark Skier Magazine on Vimeo.

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March 24, 2010 | Categories: Freeskiing Competitions | Tags: alaska, allowFullScreen, Butte, Championships, codebase, comp, content, Crested, extreme, Extremes, Feed, FWT, headwall, Hourglass, Little, Magazine, morning, Salt, ski, Sock-it-to-me, SUBSCRIBE, sup, telemark, tomorrow, U.S., value, World | Comments Off

Comp Update… Finally!

I’ve been having so much fun traveling and skiing, that I haven’t found the time or motivation to sit down and write. However, after driving through countless snow caused accidents on the California highway, and then having to entertaining myself in the Nevada hell-hole that is I-80, I’m taking a day off.

I can’t believe that this season is but a few months from coming to an end, and that the first comp in Revelstoke, BC was almost two months ago. Now over halfway through the comp season, the 2010 Telemark Big Mountain/Freeride Comp in Alpine Meadows, California is also already over. This last comp went smoothly even though the weather and snow conditions didn’t feel like cooperating. I did however, have a major break threw, in that I was finally able to stay on my feet, and not get lost for at least one comp run! Even though a hip-check/slide would put me into the 8th spot, I feel that my falling/getting lost streak is finally over! Hopefully I can finally “have one” at the next stop in Kirkwood and show those alpine skiers that a guy on tele-boards can SKI. With three comps down and three more to go, there is still a lot of skiing to be had.

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Josh Madsen from Telemark Skier Magazine also did a fantastic job covering the comp:
(if the video doesn’t open in a player click the transparent “facebook” I cant figure out why some videos load and some don’t)

February 22, 2010 | Categories: Freeskiing Competitions | Tags: accidents, All, alpine, alpine meadows, alpine skiers, Big, california highway, check, comp, comps, Day, didn, EVER, facebook, Freeride, fun, height, hell hole, Hopefully, href, job, kirkwood, madsen, major break, Meadows, motivation, mountain, pictures, season, ski, skier, skier magazine, skiers, skiing, snow, snow conditions, src, tele, telemark, video, way, weather, width | 1 Comment »

Poster Child

I found out that I’m on the poster for the Alpine Meadows Telemark and Freeride Festival! I’m so stoked, and I can’t wait to shred up Alpine Meadows this February!

December 3, 2009 | Categories: Exposure, Freeskiing Competitions | Tags: alpine, alpine meadows, alt, Child, comp, cursor, February, Festival, Freeride, height, Meadows, poster, poster child, Red, shred, src, style, tele, telemark, vert, wait, width | 2 Comments »

3000 miles later…

Two weeks, two comps, and 3000 miles later, I’m finically back home in Sun Valley, Idaho. It all started with the Subaru U.S. Extreme Freeskiing Championships in Crested Butte, Colorado. In typical ski bum style, North Parker, Bryce Newcomb, and I all mobbed over to the Comp in my mothers Big Blue Van. We were greeted with a much need blanked of fresh snow, followed by an amazing blue bird sunny weekend. With these ideal conditions I had the most fun I’ve ever had at Crested Butte. North kept his Jr. title for the second year in a row, and Bryce and I both fell which caused us to place further back than what we wanted(I ended up in 36th). I also skied the most burly line I think I have ever skies and aired a 50-footer at the bottom of the Dead End Chute. I got to meet lots of the alpine athletes and make friends outside of the SV-Possy. Then we were on the road again headed back to Sun Valley. After I dropped Bryce and North off, I only had time to Unpack, do laundry, Repack and get some food, before I was on the road again headed to California for the first extreme Telemark comp at Alpine Meadows.

The Alpine Comp was another great competition, and it felt good to be back in the company of so many rippin’ Telemark Skiers. The First day I skied well but I had an unfortunate bobble upon landing the bottom cliff out of the “Key Hole,” but I redeemed my self second run, with the highest total run score for the whole comp, which put me into 3rd place, right behind Jake Sakson, and JT Robinson. The next day in the Finals I was hoping to bypass JT and Jake by skiing the “money-line” faster and better than I had done the day before. I ended up being too aggressive and I lost my balance as I dropped into the keyhole and I fell in the “NO-FALL Zone.” Obviously my scores suffered, but I with the great run the day before, I was able to pull off a 8th place finish.

Now it feel like have time to breath, but im back to training, Crested Butte is coming up in a few weeks…
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March 2, 2009 | Categories: Freeskiing Competitions | Tags: Add new tag, Air, All, alpine, alpine skiing, Amazing, ambassador, Athletes, backcountry, Big, black diamond, Butte, Canadian, Championship, Championships, comp, competition, Conor, Crested, crested butte, Davis, Day, extreme, extreme freeskiing, Finals, Freeski, Freeskiing, fresh snow, fun, Idaho, key, line, mother, mountain, mountains, Open, place, Powder, Red, resort, season, ski, skier, skiers, skiing, snow, Star, style, sun valley, tele, telemark, train, training, U.S., world championships, www.conordavis.com, year | Comments Off

Canadian Open Freeskiing Championships 2009

The Canadian Open Freeskiing Championships at Red Mountain Resort was my first big mountain competition of this season. In training I fell and when I self arrested I injured my wrist. I decided to take a more conservative line than I initially planned because I didn’t want to hurt my wrist any further and because the crash rattled me and shook me up a little. The event went well although I missed the cut to the finals by 0.8points! Even though I was cut, I feel good about the line I decided to ski and I stomped it. Also I feel that it is worth mentioning that this was an alpine skiing event and I beat over half the field on telemark equipment, and I’m happy about that… Hopefully I can heal up my wrist and come back strong and do well in my next comp at Crested Butte.

January 15, 2009 | Categories: Freeskiing Competitions | Tags: All, alpine, alpine skiing, Big, Butte, Canadian, Championship, Championships, comp, competition, conservative line, crash, Crested, crested butte, didn, equipment, event, Finals, Freeski, Freeskiing, Hopefully, line, mountain, mountain competition, Open, Red, Red Mountain, red mountain resort, resort, season, ski, skiing, take, tele, telemark, train, training, wrist | Comments Off

Young Manly Champion Athletes

The 2009 Baldy Bash was a blast! The competition consisted of coming up with, and singing a team theme song loudly to everyone in the Lodge, a Photo-op Scavenger hunt all over the Mountain, and finally costumes were judged as well. Needless to say our amazing team (YMCA): Riley Berman, Lily Debray, Lynsey Dyer, Madi DuPont, Allegra Gordan, and Conor Davis(me), won the days events. I cannot wait for Baldy Bash 2010.

Hot-CoCo CanCan

Conor’s Amazing Tail Grab

Hanging with the Lifties

All-Star Team!!!

January 5, 2009 | Categories: Day to Day Skiing | Tags: All, Allegra Gordan, Amazing, Athletes, Baldy, Bash, CanCan, CoCo, comp, competition, Conor, conor davis, Davis, Day, DuPont, Dyer, event, everyone, Hanging, Hot, hunt, Lily Debray, Lodge, Lynsey, Madi, Manly, mountain, Photo-op, Riley Berman, Scavenger, song, Star, Tail, team, theme, wait, YMCA, Young | Comments Off

My 08/09 Season Blasts Off At Revelstoke

I went to Revelstoke Mountain resort for opening day on Nov. 27, 2008. The mountain opened with 80cm, which is awesome compared to other mountains in the American Northwest. Revelstoke Is an amazing mountain, there isn’t too much for one learn on, but the intermediate, and advanced terrain is impressive. I had a great time and I can’t wait to see what this mountain is like with some real snow on it. I had an amazing first day skiing, but it seems that no matter how much I train, my legs turn to flab within the first couple of hours or so each season. Nevertheless, it was great to finally get some vert in; I managed to get about 31095ft in the 5hrs I skied. I’m ecstatic that ski season is upon us once again, see you out there…

December 2, 2008 | Categories: Day to Day Skiing | Tags: All, Amazing, American, american northwest, blasts, comp, Conor, conor davis, Davis, Day, flab, great time, isn, legs, matter, mountain, mountains, Northwest, Nov, Open, opening day, Red, resort, season, ski, ski season, skiing, snow, terrain, train, turn, vert, wait | Comments Off

Summer Jib Sesh… DNA rail jam

As you can imagine, I was surprised to see posters up around town for a ski competition on August 18th this summer. Sure enough on August 18th, The DNA Evolution Tour set up their mobile rail park outside PK’s ski and sports for a summer jib-sesh. It was super fun to break out my ski equipment on one of the hottest summer days. The event was great, there was lots of music and it drew in a pretty good-sized spectator crowd. I had a great time, and I got a lot of respect from the other competitors for competing on tele-gear. I think I even invented some telemark specific rail slides, like my “tele-stance slide” which got a lot cheers from the spectators. At the end of the day, I even qualified for The DNA Evolution Tour Finals in Las Vegas, unfortunately I won’t be able to attend main event this year…

November 19, 2008 | Categories: Day to Day Skiing | Tags: comp, competition, competitor, Day, DNA, equipment, event, evolution, Finals, fun, great time, Hot, jam, music, rail, ski, Sports, summer, tele, telemark, tour, year | Comments Off

2008 Telemark World Championships “Telepalooza”

After competing in the 12th Annual Extreme Freeskiing Telemark Championsips in Crested Butte a weekend earlier, I knew that I was good enough to step up, and ski with the “big dogs,” the guys I had been idolizing in telemark movies just a few years ago. Guys like: Nick DeVore, Dylan Crossman, Will Cardemone, JT Robinson, etc… With the financial support of the Sun Valley Ski Patrol I was able to get a last second ticket to Alaska.

Alaska was amazing! I had only ever seen it in ski films. I had never imagined the vastness and the overwhelming scale of its beautiful and pristine mountains. I had never skied anything as steep and rewarding, and I cannot wait to do it again.

November 18, 2008 | Categories: Freeskiing Competitions | Tags: alaska, All, Amazing, Big, big dogs, Butte, Championship, Championships, comp, Crested, crested butte, Cross, crossman, devore, extreme, extreme freeskiing, Freeski, Freeskiing, Hot, mountain, mountains, movies, overwhelming scale, pristine mountains, ski, ski films, ski patrol, skiing, sun ski, sun valley, tele, telemark, vastness, wait, World, world championships, year | Comments Off

2008 Canadian Freeskiing Open

This was my first freeskiing competition of my 2008 winter season. I had a lot of fun and I placed well considering I was the only competitor on telemark equipment. The snow was amazing, but the visibility went to zero soon after the competition started, so finding my line was a bit difficult.