Conor Davis

I finially decided to take a day off yesterday and just relax. I was looking for some video from the 2010 Mavericks surf contest that took place just over a week ago, and while I was searching around, I came a cross a video produced by SalomonFreeskiTV that wowed me. Let me know what you think…

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

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!

This is also the first snow the New Gondola has experienced

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.

I try to compete in as many events as I can each year, here is my 2010 line-up so far:

Alpine Extreme Freeskiing Events

-January 6-10, 2010 – The Canadian Freeskiing Championships, Revelstoke, Canada

-January 21-23 Canadian Open Freesking Championships

-February 4-6 2010 – Subaru Freeskiing World Tour Qualifier, Telluride, CO, USA

-February 17-21, 2010 – Subaru US Freeskiing Championships, Crested Butte, CO, USA

-March 3-7, 2010 – Subaru North American Freeskiing Championships, Kirkwood, CA, USA

-March 16-21, 2010 – Subaru Freeskiing World Championships, Snowbird, UT, USA

SV Telemark Events (Dates Are Not Posted Yet)

-January – All-Terrain at Sun Valley (Bumps,Jumps,GS,Hiking)

-February – Idaho’s Original Bob Marley Day (All-Terrain, Big Air, Tele-Powder8’s)

-March – Dollar Mountain GS

-April – Hawaiian Nationals- Duel GS, Tandem-Tele-Challenge, Parade, Rail Jam

Telemark Extreme Freeskiing Events

-Feb 18-21, 2010 – Alpine Meadows Free-Heal open

first poster I'm on!!!

-March 18-20, 2010 – Crested Butte Extreme Freeskiing Telemark Nationals

-March 23-28, 2010 – Telemark World Championships Alaska

2009-2010 Competition Highlights:

Competed in 6 freeskiing comps (3 of which were alpine comps I did on my tele-gear)
6^th at Alpine Meadows Big Mtn Telemark Comp
5^th at the Telemark Extreme Freeskiing Nationals in Crested Butte (fell in super-final was in 2nd)
7^th at the Telepalooza World Extreme Comp
Tough Guy Award at the World Comp
-In Telemark Skiing Mag’s movie

2008-2009 Competition Highlights:

1st big air category of all terrain Comp Sun Valley Tele
1st Overall Sun Valley Tele All Terrain
Highest Ranked Telemark skier: Canadian Freeskiing Open
36th Crested Butte Freeskiing Championships: Subaru Freeskiing tour (best on Telemark)
Highest Scoring Run: Alpine Meadows Free-heal open
8th place Alpine Meadows (fell in super final)
10th National Extreme Telemark Championships

Other Life Highlights 2008-2009

-As far as I know I invented a new tele-surf technique (video coming as soon as the snow falls)
-127 days skied, at 14 different resorts in the US and Canada, and 20 days of amazing back country touring.
-expanded my bag of tricks with: Back Flips, 720′s, Lincoln Loops and others inverts.
-Biggest air I’ve ever hit: 50ft ish from takeoff to landing… stuck it

2007-2008 Season Competition Highlights

-1st Bob Marley day big air telemark comp.
-7th Extreme Freeskiing telemark world championships– Alyeska resort AK
-9th Canadian Freeskiing open– Red Mtn. BC (alpine comp i did on my tele’s)
-10th US Extreme Freeskiing telemark nationals–Crested Butte CO
-lots of top results in the mens elite class for the Sun Valley Telemark Series

Other Life Highlights 2007-2008
-two week yurt ski trip in the Sawtooth Mountains “Boulder Yurt” with friends

-148 days skied (37 in backcountry)

-Three week trip to Moab, for river rafting, Climbing, and Mountain Biking

-Graduated High School!!! (and i even gave a speech)