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Day Tour: Titus Lake Area

Yesterday, I went on an amazing day tour with my friend and rippin-tele-chick Simone Kastner. We were greeted with a blue bird day and warm sun as we started our hike out Titus Ridge from the top of Galena Summit. With no new snow in the last few weeks, the a hike out was on hard, wind scoured, snow. However, a few hundred vert below the ridges, we were surprised to find some really good skiing. After a two-ish hour hike out, we skied a fun alpine style line to start things off. Then we hiked back up to find one of the last remaining pillow lines in the area! Our second descent lead us into the flats, but a short double pole through the plains put us right back at Road. After getting shut down for 40min we were finally able to hitch a ride back to the top of Galena Summit. It was a great day, and I can’t wait to get out there again!

Titus Feb 3-11

February 4, 2011 | Categories: Day to Day Skiing | Tags: alpine, alpine style, amazing day, area, bird day, blue bird, chick, descent, Friend, Galena, galena summit, hike, hitch a ride, ish, new snow, pillow, pole, ride, simone, Simone Kastner, skiing, snow, sun, tele, Titus Lake, Titus Ridge, warm sun, Yesterday | Comments Off

From Sandals To Ski Boots

Still in my board shorts after a long day of surfing in Hanalei Bay, Kauai, I hopped on the red eye headed back to my home base in Sun Valley, Idaho. Ready for more summer, I walked out of the Boise airport, and I was greeted outside by cold that cut straight to the bone. A shock to the system for sure, but it got me stoked on the season. I was back home for 48hrs which gave me time to say “hi” to my dad, unpack, re-pack, and mount up my new skis, before I hit the road again to spend some time with my Brother and ski with him in summit county. I did a quick stop in Salt Lake City to see some friends and I ended up taking a day to ski at Brighton with my good friend Dex Mills. After another day in the car, I grabbed my brother in Boulder, and we headed towards the snow. I had a great time skiing in Summit County, and spending his Thanksgiving break skiing with him. Now, with ten days in, I think my feet are finally accepting that they’re going to have to be in ski boots the next 5-6 months.

November 28, 2010 | Categories: Day to Day Skiing | Tags: airport, base, Boise, bone, boots, Boulder, Brighton, brother, car, county, dad, Day, Dex Mills, eye, Friend, Hanalei Bay, home, Idaho, kauai, Salt Lake City, Sandals, season, shock, ski, skiing, snow, stop, summer, summit, Summit County, system, Thanksgiving, time, unpack | Comments Off

I’m in Kauai and Excited for SNOW?!

I’ve been in Kauai for a few days now, and I’ve been having a blast! The water is 75° if not warmer, and I’ve had a wonderful time beach-hopping on the North Shore the last few days. I even decided to go on an adventure and got lost in the jungle last night on the “Hunters Moon!” However, I feel like my excitement for this winter and falling snow cannot be tamed by this island paradise. I’ve been; watching ski movies in the morning before the day starts, checking out ski news online at night, and I even ran into my first ski coach, Jeff Mintz, yesterday while walking down the street! Small-World right? Now I’m sitting here, looking at the snow stake webcam on top of Baldy, and I can’t believe that it snowed 9 inches last night!!! Maybe there is something wrong with me, but I’m stoked for this winter.

Hiking through the forrest on the way to the beach

Beginning of the Napali Coast

Hunter's Moon adventure

It snowed 9in last night (10-23)!!!

October 24, 2010 | Categories: Nothing to do with Skiing | Tags: attachment, Â Now, Baldy, Beginning, coach jeff, Coast, Conor, Davis Forrest Kauai, Excited, excitement, excitementÂ, falling snow, few days, forrest, having a blast, height, hiking, Hunters, hunters moon, island paradise, islandÂ, Jeff Mints, jungle, kauai, mints, Moon, Napali, napali coast, north shore, ski, ski coach, ski news, Small, snow, snowstake, stake, street, walking down the street, water, webcam, width, winter, wonderful time, World | 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 »

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

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 »

Skiing My Butt Off!

I just tallied up all of the hours I’ve spent skiing so far this year, and I was shocked to see that I have skied over 150 hours already!!! I got an early start on my ski season this year with a two and a half week trip to Summit County, CO. Now I’m back home in Sun Valley, I’m feeling stronger than ever, and I’m antsy for winter to show up. Snow is in forecast this weekend but Sun Valley isn’t waiting. They have put snowmaking efforts on full throttle, and new terrain is opening every few days…

Snow Making Nov-Dec 09

December 10, 2009 | Categories: Day to Day Skiing | Tags: butt, Day, EVER, feeling, few days, full throttle, isn, new, new terrain, Open, season, ski, ski season, skiing, snow, Star, summit county co, sun, sun valley, terrain, trip, wait, Win, winter, year | 6 Comments »

Early Season Update & Video

My trip to Colorado for some early season shredding is almost at an end. So far I have skied 10 days (about 45 hours) at two resorts. Snow is in the forecast and I’m so excited for an epic winter to start!

I’ve mostly been working on switch tele-skiing, tele-nose butters, and carving on this trip check out the video:

November 12, 2009 | Categories: Day to Day Skiing | Tags: access, All, butters, check, Colorado, epic, resort, season, ski, skiing, snow, switch, tele, trip, trip to colorado, two resorts, video, winter | Comments Off

Reacquainted With An Old Friend

I’m in the best mood EVER!!! Want to know why? …Because today was the first day of my 09-10 ski season. It felt so good to finally get reacquainted with the snow, and I am so happy to be sliding down mountains again. I forgot that I would have to get used to my equipment again, but after a few runs i was quickly charging ahead at full speed. After skiing today, I have a feeling that the rest of this season is going to be truly epic!

November 2, 2009 | Categories: Day to Day Skiing | Tags: All, Conor, conor davis, Davis, Day, epic, equipment, EVER, feeling, Friend, full speed, mood, mountain, mountains, Old, old friend, Reacquainted, rest, season, ski, ski season, skiing, snow, telemark, today, Want | 2 Comments »

First Snow of the Season Revs up my Pre-season Stoke

With the skiing dreams really showing up in the last few months I have been so anxious to ski that I was thinking about driving all the way to the Breanu Sand Dunes to go sand skiing. When I awoke this morning to find snow pouring out of the clouds, I could hardly contain my excitement. I ran around the house waking up everyone, making sure that I wasn’t dreaming. After running outside and throwing some snowballs for Bailey, my dog, I went onto the Sun Valley website to check out the real time status of the snow on the mountain cams and the snow depth indicator read 9in! Update: it now reads 12inches one hour later

snowstake_full

I hope that this fresh blanket is a tell tale sign of a big winter to come. I have a bet with some friends going on about how many inches we’re going to get here in Sun Valley. How many inches do you think we are going to get here in Sun Valley? Leave a comment on this post, and if you’re the closest at the end of the year you will win the prize!

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This is also the first snow the New Gondola has experienced

October 4, 2009 | Categories: Day to Day Skiing | Tags: All, Big, blanket, breanu, Conor, Davis, dunes, everyone, gondola, house, Lodge, morning, mountain, mtn, new, sand, season, ski, skiing, snow, sun, sun valley, take, tele, telemark, valley, way, www.conordavis.com, year | 5 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

The Best Christmas Present EVER!!!

This morning I woke up and I was ecstatic that mother nature gave us over two feet of fresh light fluffy snow for Christmas! There was so much snow in fact, that I couldn’t find my car when I went out side to look for it! Anyway, after standing in line for 2.5hrs with my friend Chris Tatsuno, the ski patrol finally declared the lower portion of the mountain open at 11:00. The scene was awesome, people were hootin’ and hollering and laughing and there was a vibe of an old resort, where everyone is in a great mood and having a blast. Chris and I stormed down for first tracks on Exhibition, passing about 50-60 poeple, and we continued charging down the whole morning. We ended up getting eleven runs in on the Exhibition chair before the top opened at 2:00. By the time the top opened the mountain had already tired out most of its morning skiers, and we had to many untracked lined to choose from the rest of the day. During a quick water break, Chris and I met up with Lynsey Dyer and Sven Kueenle and we skied until the mountain closed at 4:00. This was probably one of the days I’ve ever had at Sun Valley resort, and it was the best present I’ve ever received for Christmas

Dude where’s my Car?

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Lift Line

Megawatts=best powder ski ever!!! I love these skis

Chris and I are loving life!

December 30, 2008 | Categories: Day to Day Skiing | Tags: Air, All, best christmas, car lift, Chris, Chris Tatsuno, Christmas, Conor, couldn, Davis, Day, dude, Dyer, everyone, Exhibition, exhibition chair, fluffy snow, friend chris, having a blast, hootin, Hot, Lindsay, line, loving life, Lynsey, megawatts, mood, morning, mother, mother nature, mountain, Open, poeple, portion, Powder, powder ski, quick water, Red, resort, rest of the day, scene, ski, ski patrol, skier, skiers, skis, snow, sun valley, sun valley resort, Sven Kueenle, tatsuno, two feet, vibe, way, www.conordavis.com | Comments Off

Dumping at Silverstar!!!

“Powder Day!!!” These were the only words I could think of when I awoke to a beautiful white blanket of 15in/38cm of fresh snow this morning(12/13/08). It was great to finally ski on some “good” coverage, as snow has been scarce this early season and conditions have been dismal at best. In addition to the newly fallen blessing, Sliverstar resort open their backside, which is where the majority of black and double black diamonds are located, which meant even more fun for me. This powder day was just what I needed, my legs were burning, my heart was pumping, and I was having a blast. However, in my overly ecstatic state of mind, I didn’t heed to the signs clearly stating “Caution: Unmarked Hazards Exist,” and I ended up introducing my thigh to a very mean tree stump. Ultimately the wicked stump left me with quite a large bruise; thankfully I suffered no major damage. Other then my little incident I had an amazing day.

December 16, 2008 | Categories: Day to Day Skiing | Tags: addition, All, Amazing, amazing day, backside, black diamond, black diamonds, blanket, blessing, bruise, caution, Conor, coverage, damage, Davis, Day, didn, Dumping, Exist, fresh snow, fun, having a blast, Hazards, heart, heed, incident, legs, majority, mean, morning, Open, Powder, Red, resort, season, signs, Silverstar, ski, skis, Sliverstar, snow, Star, thigh, tree, tree stump, Unmarked, www.conordavis.com | 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

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.