Thanksgiving in San Diego

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I’m getting a Jetta.

The dealer just threw the sold sign on my new car, a 2006 VW Jetta 2.5 premium. 24,000 miles. Black. Lots of options. Warranty. Now time to secure some financing. Pictures coming as soon as I take delivery.[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/11/92/1192.jpeg[/IMG]

Treadwell’s New Threads

Picked up a new outfit for Treadwell at the Build-a-Bear shop in Boston. Delivered it to him upon my arrival to Boulder. He couldn’t be more pleased; as soon as he had squeezed himself into the new Bruins apparel, he remarked, “it’s for sure my favorite outfit.” Now, when I’m away from the bedroom, Treadwell can pass the [...]

Dumont v. Russell

About a year ago, round about the opening day of Keystone's first freestyle terrain feature offering of the season, Simon Dumont bested Tim Russell in...

Turkey 5

A great gathering happened up in Dillon, Colorado for the Thanksgiving holiday. Hosted by Simon Dumont and his family, as well as roommate Peter Oleni...

Pillows with E-Jack

NVC 3.2

Finding the 4bi9 House

...Ed's note: This is Liam Downey's second piece for ESPN Freeskiing. His first piece, Bonzo's Montreux, appears HERE ».] I'm walking down a sidewalk in the...

Social Media Upends Ski Resort Marketing

Good news for the Storm Mountain Publishing digital assets. Social media is playing a major role in accelerating the decision cycle of consumers who patronize ski resorts. As a result, one of the country’s largest such companies — Vail Resorts — has abandoned its long-time advertising strategies and practices and built a new in-house [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/11/51/1151.png[/IMG]

Early Season Park at Keystone

Hats off to the men and women in the Keystone park staff for providing such an amazing early season park.  A51 (the big park) opens up this week.[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/11/50/1150.jpeg[/IMG]

TANAKA TURKEY DAY

Thanksgiving on the Oregon Coast from luke tanaka on Vimeo.On family vacation with Landis and Luke Tanaka on the Oregon ...

On the Rink

Per local custom, Aspen Mountain (and Snowmass) opened for the season on Thanksgiving Day and this brought out all the crusties, gapers and youngstahs...

Cell Pics Galore

Dumped some pictures from the cell phone today. Here’s a few snapshots of the things I’ve seen/done lately. November 5, 2009. Buffs v. Rams hockey game @ the Pepsi Center; Buffs pull off miraculous comeback win. November 18, 2009. Got some new blue shoes at the mall. November 19, 2009. Late night. There are more pics from this “photoshoot” that are quite [...]

NVC 3.1

Thanksgiving in Oregon

Went down to Portland and the Oregon Coast for Thanksgiving. It sure was a jolly time!Thanksgiving on the Oregon Coast f...

Gymnastics

macarena from PK Hunder on Vimeo.Me and my buddy Jonny went for some gynastics last week. Pretty sonn You´ll see a ed...

KILL-BIRDIE*

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First day of skiing

Yesterday I had my first day on skis since my injury, it's been a long time but I guess skiing is like riding a bike. Yo...

Lots happening

Well summer has flown by; as it does. Winter is in full bloom here in Revelstoke.  Plenty of powder for anyone willing to hike. I have been super busy so I have not restarted my blog. Soon though I will be full time skiing again, but for the moment I am working and getting out two days a week. Weird but responsible. Lots of news. I have said goodbye to a few sponsors and started something with Dynafit. Their binding has been responsible for so many of my accomplishments and lately their boots and skis have really progressed. I am working closely with Dynafit on their ski line and you should expect interesting things out of our work. Very exciting actually but I cannot talk about it. Yet... As for everything else it is as it should be. My kids are getting older and we went and skied RMR today. Charley is four and I can see that this year will be great for her. Aiden is almost three and we will have fun but real progression happens at four and five. Still great to have both kids slidding on snow. And now about the skiing. I have had a varied start, somewhere around 8 days.  Some have been epic deep and others not so much. Earlier in Nov I was in Breckenridge, Colorado and I managed my first 14 thousander, Quandary.  It was fun to stand on top of a 14 er, since you hear so much about them. Yesterday I left the house a 4am and went for my first solo of the year. It felt great. I was standing on top of Video peak at 8am, with an untracked powderfield below me. I  played with some time lapses and skied two lines off the peak. At the bottom of my second; which was an epic run, I flew off a roller and landed softly in the snow and then carried my speed and flew off the second roll... midway through this air I realized that the landing was uphill. Huge crash, midway through my ski hit me in the head, hard.  Liying in the snow I watched as small blood drops dripped into the snow. Dazed but okay I hiked back up to my camera and skied home. Careening out of Connaught drainage, everyone would stare and wonder what was up with the madman skiing out at 9am and why was his face covered in blood.   One of the coolest video comps of the year is this one being hosted by Canadian Mountain Holidays. One thing that is soo cool about it is that you get to ski with me for a week. And not your typical start from valley bottom experience. But first class all the way. Heli assisted ski touring out of the Adamant Lodge. One week of excellent food and accomodation, heli assisted every day, head to toe Arcteryx gear for the winner and their friend. Damn easily over 10 000 dollar prize. And all you have to do is.........

NVC 3.0

It's okay. For the next 28 days it's socially acceptable to be nice to others.