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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: Pow Pow Pow

It’s been snowing here in Revelstoke almost non-stop since the Freeskiing World Tour arrived here a couple days ago. Revelstoke Mountain Resort has reported 55cm (21.7in) in the last 48hours! This new snow left the venue in pristine condition for both the men’s and woman’s qualifying runs, held yesterday and today. I felt good on my qualifying run, and i skied a fun line, but the cut was deep and the judges only took the top 20 athletes to compete in the semi-finals tomorrow. Although I would have liked to see at least one of us make it all three mens Telemark athletes were cut, but Big props to Jake Sakson and Rory Camm for sending it today!!! I would also like to congratulate fellow Sun Valley skier Collin Collins for killing is in his first run! Snow is still on the radar so im “revel-stoked” to go get some pow in the morning!!!

I also got the cover shot for the Freeskiing World Tour’s Website for today!!!

check out the video from today!!!

REVELSTOKE 2011: Mens Highlights from Qualifying from Subaru Freeskiing World Tour on Vimeo.

January 7, 2011 | Categories: Exposure, Freeskiing Competitions | Tags: attachment, camm, collin collins, Conor, couple days, Davis, Exposure, fellow, fun line, Jake Sakson, mountain, pow pow pow, pristine condition, props, radar, Revelstoke, rory, Rory Camm, semi finals, skier, sun valley, telemark, today, tomorrow, Update, venue, www.conordavis.com | 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.