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)!!!
Twits,Tweets,Tweeps… Im on The Twitter now
Hey so I just signed up for Twitter, I know I’m late in the game but I’ve gotten the basics down. So, now I guess the whole idea is to get more followers… Since you are reading this you probably care enough to follow me, so if you have a twitter account please click below and go check out my page. If you don’t have an account you can either make one or keep checking back here to follow my tweets(I was smart enough to link them to the upper right sidebar). Thanks, now click below!!!
Larger Than Life!
I should have posted this a while ago but, well, I’m getting around to it now…
In addition to being the centerfold for Sun Valley Resort in the paper EVERY WEEK this summer, I also have larger than life sized banners all around the resort!
here are some that I’ve found:
River Run Lodge
Sun Valley Village
TV Ad
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Trailer Time!!!
I’ve been getting really stoked for this next season: I’ve been having skiing dreams for weeks, I just found out that I’ll be skiing with Cross Sportswear, all of this years movies are looking sick!!! In addition to the movie I’m in, TSM’s “Hippies Punx & Misfits,” Im really looking forward to: Poor Boyz’ “Revolver,” Level 1′s “Eye Trip,” TGR’s “Deeper” fetering Jeremy Jones, Matchstick’s “The Way I See It” and Powder Whore’s “Tele-Vision.” In Case you haven’t seen the trailers, I’ve included them down below, hopefully you’ll get as pumped as I am:
Now that your stoked go check out Cross!
Kjell Ellefson Comeback
My good friend and fellow telemark skier, Kjell Ellefson, put out a self edit last night. He was out of commission last season due an injury, but I think it’s safe to say that he was back this year charging harder than ever! Personally, I think that he is one of the most talented and progressive telemark skiers out there today. Please watch the video below to see what I’m talking about:
Kjell Ellefson Self Edit 09-10 from Kjell Ellefson on Vimeo.
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.
Jake Sakson's ski-bum ambulance, it runs on grease!!!
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Wave Skiing!?!
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…
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)
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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Help Me Win This Ski Design Contest
New Schoolers and Icelantic are having a “Design the 6th Sense” top sheet design contest. I’m hoping to win the contest but I need your votes to help me win! So far i have two designs in the contest (click on a pair of skis to vote for them):
Please vote for both of my ski designs…
Thanks,
-Conor
Poster Child
I found out that I’m on the poster for the Alpine Meadows Telemark and Freeride Festival! I’m so stoked, and I can’t wait to shred up Alpine Meadows this February!
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