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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

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

World Class Terrain Park Makes It’s Mark On Dollar

The new terrain park is so sick!!! Check out Sun Valley Blog’s article by clicking below:

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December 20, 2009 | Categories: Day to Day Skiing, Exposure | Tags: All, alt, blog, check, Conor, Davis, height, href, img, new, new terrain, src, sun, sun valley, sun vally, terrain, terrain park, width, World | Comments Off

Demo Day Was A Hit

Demo Days was a big hit this last Sunday (Dec 13), I was able to help/teach almost 25 people how to Telemark and we all had a great time. If you missed out on the action you can still demo all the killer gear at eaither Backwoods or The Elephants Pearch.

Demo Day Dec 13-09

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December 14, 2009 | Categories: Day to Day Skiing | Tags: All, backwoods, Big, Day, demo days, elephants, href, last sunday, mountain, mountains, Sports, sun | 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 »

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

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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