G-WOOD

Got some shots in Randich, Bacon, and Madison's edit. Turned out banger!G-WOOD episode 1-How we get Down from Josh Randi...

Hey guys!Im back in Breck after a Weekend in Aspen for the X-games. As some of you may have seen on TV or internet, I wa...

Rime Knits Ads

Got a couple of advertisements for Rime Knits!This was in Idaho with B.Becker. It was actually a large road gap that at ...

catching up...

To catch you up on the past few weeks starts with the She Jumps fundraiser. It was a HUGE success! Fun, productive and i...[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/36/28/3628.jpeg[/IMG]

Xgames skier pipe

Kevin Rolland just laid down the most progressive and best run ever by a skier at Xgames this past weekend. Congrats Kevin, nice work! Skier half pipe is not in the 2010 vancouver olympics WTF.

4 runs

I took four runs yesterday!!! It was amazing. Being injured made me realize all of the things about skiing that I missed...

The womb of Macpherson

Great day to be out in the mountains. Cloudy, snowy and occasionally almost sunny. I headed up Macpherson at 715 am and headed towards the summit. 3.5 hours and 6000 feet later I was there. A perfect 10 cm lay on top of our older snows, carvable and fast and definitely sloughing off steeper terrain. Alone and free I shredded the womb top to bottom, grabbed a lunch and headed back up. The second run off from just below the summit was better than the first. I went steeper and the snow seemed even better. Keeping a keen eye on my slough I had a great time shredding down.  So much fun to go out and ski around fast and free.   11330 ft                                                                                                                   178 168

Olenick Sets New World Record

Aspen, CO. On Sunday, Aspen police detained professional freeskier Peter Olenick, a local of Carbondale, CO between the hours of 7:30 and 8:30 PM when it was discovered that he had used a pipe to get extremely, extremely high. Other skiers including Justin Dorey, Kevin Rolland, Mike Riddle, Xavier Bertoni and Simon Dumont were also caught [...]

India

Andy Mahre and myself recently took a quick trip to India... well maybe not too quick... it took Mr. Mahre 48hrs longer ...

NVC 7.5

Brothers

Aiden's first summit

Here is  Aiden stomping the last few steps to the sub summit of Mt-Mackenzie. His first peak experience. I carried him up the first 435 feet and he climbed the last 15. I think it meant more to me than him as when I asked him later what he liked most about the day. He replied that he liked the big jump we took, and I had to coax it out of him that we had summitted  a "mountain". Somethings we do for ourselves and others we do for our kids.  

Chicks Love Jossi

Inspired by “My Friend is a Pro,” these girls hit me up this week with an original song that they put together to celebrate the life of our friend Jossi Wells. I’m about to put these girls to work on the new album.

Extreme Games

While I decided to stay in Tahoe and focus on my knee during this years X Games and SIA, I was still constantly hitting ...[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/35/01/3501.jpeg[/IMG]

Blind Date

I have only been on one real blind date in my life and it was a disaster. It was in Australia and with a teachers daughter who, for whatever reason, needed a date. So I went and ended up with BO and wanting no part of my date. So I have been a little against blind dates. But today's date was not necessarily blind, we had exchanged emails and probed into each others lives through Facebook. So I kinda knew what my date was all about. But not really. Paul has been riding for awhile but has just converted over to the dynafit splitboard set up, and he is psyched to get after it. So with no real understanding of his comfort levels, physical fitness or snowboarding abilities, we headed up and into the white out. End destination Ursus Minor. Paul followed us up and around through the whiteout with no real idea where we were taking him. Just an undeserved faith that we would bring him home. He did well. He toured fairly quickly, did not falter at some of the exposure through the small rock steps, and was excited on the summit. He then followed us down the ridge and into the south chute. Which had some pretty decent skiing in it. I think it will be fun for Paul to return soon and see the terrain he traveled through, since we really saw none of this today. I hope he enjoyed our first "date".

Winter X-Games Fourteen

Aspen is a total blast this weekend. These pictures sum up our experience thus far. Bobby Brown is a winner. Pk didn’t quite make it to his hotel room. 4:30 AM This sign is posted in Victoria’s Coffee Shop. I hope they find the dog because it was probably an expensive sweater.

Breathing deeply

As i mentioned I am pushing hard to finish this month on par. So I didn't call anyone and headed up solo to Balu. So many skin tracks in anydirection, sometimes its hard to choose. I headed up Ursus Minor, which is always fun and the headed down a new direction to set myself up for Video peak. The ridge ski descent was okay and was a great way to link up to Video. Heading up Video peak I was excited to go ski any aspect, but somehow I couldn't resist the untracked north chute. Its been 7 years since I skied this line and it felt great to ease into it. Short but steep I would love to really shred this line under nice light. You could let her go and  just enjoy the speed. Today the light was flat so I skied slowly and enjoyed each turn. Great times and then a loop back around and up 8812 for the third summit of the day. Good turns off the north side and then down Balu. I had hopes to ski up Grizzly but the day was waning and so were my energy levels.  11500 feet of good times.

NVC 7.4

Talk about International diplomacy!

CONT'D

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SIA COVERAGE*

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Playing catch up

Needless to say Las Vegas was enjoyable. There is no place like Vegas, and it has to be seen to be appreciated.Good food, Cirque du Soleil and a total gamble of 11$. Pretty fun. Due to lots of different reasons, January has not been a huge vertical month for me. First off, I had to get in shape to make big days easier. So that took awhile. Then I had to balance family with obsession and I was heading away from home for 10 days so needed to ensure I had some good kid time. And then I was at the Outdoor retail show and trying to squeeze in skiing around the show. So since I returned from Vegas I have been a little on the hunt. We got home at 7:30pm and by 9:30pm I was touring up our local hot spot. Digging deep and running fast I had 10 000 feet done in around 4.5 hours.Home by 2.15 am. Then I awoke and had some skiing with my Dad and I met Aaron at 12pm to go in to the Slackcountry. We quickly headed up to the main summit and skied the NE face. When Scott Newsome and I first skied this on April 1 2001 it was the biggest line of my life and possibly one of the first "first descents" of my career. I was so excited and it was epic, I skied the green line and Newsome skied the red line. Today we skied the red line and it was fun. Good in some places and crusty in others. We then skinned and boot packed up another 1000 foot chute and had some fun and then up and back into bounds for one more chute. Good times, all three lines were new for Aaron, which makes them even more fun. I sought out some balance and played Dad for awhile and then headed out at 8.30pm to turn my day into another 10 000 feet. Today I skied with the kids; who are both improving daily and then toured 5300 feet at the fingers. Which was remarkably good. So I am catching back up and I should end this month at Par, or just under.