The Surface Dead Heads were out in full force today in Whistler for the Orage Masters. All athletes got to spend some mu...[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/72/97/7297.jpeg[/IMG]
All photos courtesy of Mr. Ian Matterson[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/72/95/7295.jpeg[/IMG]
The Bruins scored three shorthanded goals against the Carolina Hurricanes in one single penalty kill. The goals were scored in sixty-four second stretch, and it was one of the greatest things I’ve ever witnessed in my hockey-watching career. Mega pimp.
Last night was a big night for big air in the quaint resort town of Åre, Sweden as the Jon Olsson Invitational pitted the world's best amateurs ...
Sage put a funky little video together of what to do when you’re not skiing with Sockeye and Dana in Alaska.
The Surface boys stroll around the Whistler Village on a beautiful sunny day... livin' is easy! [IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/72/68/7268.jpeg[/IMG]
This mountain has been staring at me for a long time, proud and prominent it has such a striking south face that one cannot help but dream of skiing it. I have always imagined skiing it under melt freeze conditions, but there have been a few parties over the last few years that have skied it in powder. Quite a line. The couloir is called the Stutfield couloir after the first ascentionist who climbed it in 1898, the peak is 9338 feet or 2846 m tall. I finally decided that today was the day for the Eagle, almost 7 days of sun so the melt freeze cycle is well under way. We left the parking lot at 5.30 am and headed up, by 8 we had ski crampons on and we were cutting our way up steep frozen terrain. 9 am and the boot pack was under way, up and onto the south face, perfect frozen crust made for great footsteps. 10:30 am and we were on the summit. Waiting for the face to warm up a bit more we enjoyed some relaxation and then headed down around 11:15. The pitch had warmed up perfectly and we carved some great corn turns down the face. Super fun. and no worries about avalanches unless we had waited up there for too long. Great day.
Here’s another ski-blog… Its an 8 minute piece highlighting the Lake Louise big mountain comp in less than ideal conditions. Lots of sending last week I guess.
The Surface Crew loaded up the van and departed SLC at 2:00AM two nights ago en route for the Orage Masters in Whistler....[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/72/59/7259.jpeg[/IMG]
Sitting in the Adamants lodge last week, you could watch the sun rise on Downie peak and its neighbour Boulder peaks. This view made me want to hike up and ski around the glaciated summits. So this morning Aaron and I drove up from Revelstoke, 100 km, and then drove in a logging road 20 km and then looked directly up 6500 feet to the summits. Huge relief. We put our heads down and worked up through thousands of feet of great skiing. North facing the snow was good above 4500 feet, still cold and creamy. By 1.15 pm we were on Boulder 3 and looking down its steep north face. We tipped our skis down this 50* face and enjoyed some steep faceted turns. So much fun to ski a random 50 degree Nface in the middle of nowhere, most likely never skied before. Yah never know though. We then headed up and skied off Boulder 2, which was excellent and tumbled from the summit down 6500feet to the truck. What was so great about this tour was the relative lack of bushwacking, none really. we followed a logging road for 30 minutes and then went directly up. Awesome day, epic. 610 000ft
Hanging on for 2nd place in the polls - vote for Surface HERE!!![IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/72/27/7227.png[/IMG]
Big air fan? I hope that you work at a computer during the day because Jon Olsson Enterprises has just announced its live broadcast of the Jon Olsson ...
April 15-18: NYC with the fiancee and future in-laws to plan July wedding.April 19-25: Oberstdorf, Germany for the Nine ...
Mr. Eric put this one up the other day. Had some appearances in it, so thought I would show it on here. Hollering.
At this very moment, Matty Richard is living the dream. I’m very proud of this kid (now mountain man). I’ve watched him stoke the world with his passion for the mountains and love for skiing for over a decade. Matty’s positive evolution is good for all of us… This 4 plus minute POV slideshow adventure [...]
Ok, it’s been two weeks the KT Tape and I am happy to report that things are turning around. The soreness in my knee is just about gone, I’ve laid off taking any NSAID’s and my knee felt much better while skiing this past weekend. My first application of the tape lasted over a week [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/72/25/7225.jpeg[/IMG]
Tuesday, April 6th, 5:30 PM MST. Brian, Thacher and myself are standing on our stoop. Passersby gaze curiously as we strike pose after pose for the camera. We are adorned in flannel pajamas, some sort of matching t-shirts, and black rimmed glasses with the lenses popped out. To some, we appear to be three college aged dudes [...]
