Coastin' With Friends

I love just going out skiing with a good group of skiers and rally the whole resort. Friends, ski buddies, and good skiers make for a fun day of getting after it.

This is from a powder day at Snowbasin on Jan 23rd. Haven't had many of these days this year but man it was a good one.

Icelantic SIA Video Clip

Here's a clip of the new Icelantic booth and new line up from SIA in Denver put on by New Schoolers. Christian, Riley, and I had a little jam session. Enjoy.

Skiing Pow Into the New Year

Some days just are meant to be "working from home" days.  With no bosses in and no work coming through, New Year's Eve became one of those days.  It was a good thing too as Snowbasin had a good foot of fresh waiting for me.

iPhone with work email connection...... Check. Work laptop...... Check. Skis, new boots, and new HELMET CAM..... Check, check, and CHECK!!!!! Thank you Mother for the amazing Christmas and B-Day gift!!!!  Hopefully you won't regret seeing what I do on skis now.

It was a good day on the hill and I did actually get an email from a customer while out and did address it; so I really did work and put myself in position to get whatever work done that was needed. This was the first day with my new boots, the Garmont Prophets, and the V.I.O. POV 1.5 helmet cam.  It was fun testing out the camera and figuring out the side mount angles that look good.  I still haven't received my new Icelantic Shaman 173's from Denver yet so I was rocking my Nomads still.  I love these skis and they destroy everything on the mountain.  With all the soft new snow, I finally hit a couple of cliffs.

I still have to get an Up-Res plug-in for the footage I get from the POV 1.5 so it looks better when put in with an HD video edit.  I blew a couple of good shots from the first two runs because I didn't wipe off the lens after exiting from the clouds and it had fogged up. But here's a short edit from the test day of the usable footage.

True Ski Love - An Artistic Ski Tune Edit (Attempt)

True Ski Love - It's about how one treats and respects their skis, the same objects that allow one to express their feelings and life experiences on the mountain side.

My Icelantic Nomads can take a beating and give one right back. The Icelantic Shaman is just the same. Because these skis serve us and endure our skiing, we in turn keep them in good enough shape to ski another day.

This is my first attempt at an artistic edit. I didn't want to have it be super artistic or over dramatic. I merely wanted to portray the feelings and aspirations that come to me through my skis. Enjoy.

First Ski Edit

Here's that short ski edit of my first day out that I have been promissing would be out.  I finally got "most" of the kinks out of the compressed file.  I think that it's not bad for my first edit ever, and using only about 90 seconds of ski footage to make it work.

Enjoy and please let me know what ya think:

Thanksgiving Ski Day - Snowbasin

Day two of my '09-'10 ski season is under the belt and boy are my quads feeling it from the groomers.  I went up to Snowbasin, my resort choice of the year, for a couple of hours prior to the Thanksgiving festivities to get my legs in shape.  The resort only had a single run open, which is standard for opening day.  I got in a total of 5 laps before I had to head back to get ready.  That's a good 11,550 vertical feet on hard, loud snow.

I can't wait until winter is in its full swing and the runs are filled in.  I'm pretty sure that I'll have a lot of fun at Basin this year.

I'll post my season goals tomorrow.  Here's my awesome Basin Season Pass pic for ya to enjoy: