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Tour In The Dagobah System

For my last day in Revelstoke, I went touring in Rogers’ Pass with my friends; Jake Sakson, Mark Welgos, and Lange Adams. The day started at 6:00am with a drive up the pass and a mission to ski in a secret pillow zone that Jake called “The Dagobah System.” After admiring the morning alpin-glow on the surrounding mountains at the trail head, we started our four hour trek up the mountainside through a beautiful glade. With lots of kick-turns, some creative route finding, and practicing our skin-astics over fallen logs and through tight trees, we made it to the ridge and headed up to just above tree level. With well below freezing temps we geared up quickly headed down for one of the most fun runs I’ve ever skied. Check out my GoPro video and the days photo gallery below:

Tour In The Dagobah System

January 12, 2011 | Categories: Day to Day Skiing | Tags: Adams, Dagobah, dagobah system, fun runs, Gallery, glade, head, Jake, Jake Sakson, Lang, logs, Mark Welgos, mission, mountain, pillow, Revelstoke, Rogers, rogers pass, route, tree, trees, trek, welgos | Comments Off

FWT Revelstoke Update: Legs Want A Divorce

Yesterday, another weather day was called for the Freeskiing World Tour. Seeing as I didn’t make the cut and that the conditions here are phenomenal, I skied my legs into the ground. With 5,620 vertical feet, my one non-stoper at Revelstoke, kicked my butt yesterday morning, but I felt strong and ended up skiing till it was getting dark(4:15pm). Hopefully my legs are ready to give-er again, because the weather is supposed to move out and leave us with a blue bird day!

Be sure to check out the live webcast on the Freeskiing World Tour Website at 10am PST

My mother took a few pics today with our little point-and-shoot, and with a little editing some of them turned out pretty good:

Revelstoke 1-8-11

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January 9, 2011 | Categories: Freeskiing Competitions | Tags: bird day, blue bird, butt, cut, Divorce, editing, Freeskiing, Gallery, ground, legs, live webcast, morning, mother, Revelstoke, ski, skiing, today, tour, vertical feet, Want, weather, yesterday morning | Comments Off

Okay, Now I’m Done For The Season

Yesterday my friend, North Parker, and I woke up at 5am to ski a sick couloir on Hyndamn peak. With our skis and boots strapped to our packs, we started the 5mile approach to the base of the mountain. After crossing a river in the basin we scrambled our way to a small dwindling snow field, and started our 5000ft climb. About halfway up it became too steep to continue skinning, and we started an epic boot pack. The ski down was really fun and I’d like to ski it again in the winter, but the trek back to the car left us exhausted. All in all, it was a good time on one of Idaho’s most famous peaks.

The pictures below are from my cell phone, not the best quality but pretty good:

Hyndman May 17, 10

May 18, 2010 | Categories: Day to Day Skiing | Tags: 5am, best quality, boots, cell phone, couloir, epic, flagallery, Friend, Gallery, gid, good time, Hyndamn, Idaho, mountain, name, North Parker, pack, season, ski, skis, snow, snow field, Star, STEEP, trek, way, Win, winter, Yesterday | 2 Comments »

I’m Back In Reality But Not All The Way..

I’ve been physically back in Sun Valley for a few days now, but I think I’m mentally still in Alaska. Even today as I got ready to ski at the resort, I put on my beacon and my avy-pack with out even thinking, then I remembered, and felt like a a dork as I walked back to the condo to take them off… Then, even though the mountain was empty and the snow was awesome, the skiing felt droll, nothing felt steep or exciting… Oh well, I’ll get back into the swing of things eventually…

Here are some Pictures form the last two days of the trip:

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Last of AK 2010

April 13, 2010 | Categories: Day to Day Skiing | Tags: alaska, beacon, condo, dork, droll, Feed, flagallery, form, Gallery, gid, href, mountain, name, nothing, pictures, Reality, resort, skiing, SUBSCRIBE, sun valley, swing, swing of things, The Way, today, trip | Comments Off

Another Week In AK

I haven’t had time to write/post the last few days so here is a crash-course of my week:

April 1^st Filmed on resort
April 2^nd Amazing tour, summited and skied Pastoral Peak (tour only took 10hours haha)
April 3^rd Sled Skiing on Seattle Ridge, the snowmobile side of Turnagain Pass, SICK!
(Huge natural avalanche ripped out on other side the ridge while we were filming)
April 4^th Weather Day (poached some hot tubs)
April 5^th Snowed 30in skied/filmed at Alyeska Resort (Candy and Cody left)
April 6^th Went touring with avalanche forecaster Matt Murphy and learned a lot!!!

So far today we slept in till 11, stalked a moose, i got attacked by a dog(ish), and we’ve been in a coffee shop for 5hours going threw pictures and doing internet stuff…Oh and another high note, my eyes are getting less black, which is awesome! We are planning on putting in some 12hr days Thursday and Friday pushing to make the last frames of our AK trip really sick.

There are lots of sick pictures in the gallery below please check them out:
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Another Week in AK

April 7, 2010 | Categories: Day to Day Skiing | Tags: april 1, april 4, avalanche, candy, Cody, coffee, coffee shop, crash course, dog, few days, forecaster, Gallery, haha, havenâ, high note, hot tubs, internet, ish, lot, Matt Murphy, moose, Pass, Pastoral, Seattle, SICK, skiing, sled, snowmobile, stuff, SUBSCRIBE, summited, weather, week | 1 Comment »

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: