Ski Terrain in the San Juans

We had a great trip to Colorado over the 4th of July.

Super fun being up on the ridge with a little different crowd.

Also great to see everyone down in town.

Found some great ski terrain.

Remember to find the gully to the left of the meadow where the road ends.

And the elbow meadow is still lookers left of that.

All the chutes look good.

The tree thinning areas look good.

Would be cool to see the ownership lines.

is FS land roadless or designated routes.

Lou Creek/Deer Creek ...leads to outfitters.

Middleton's

Mitchel's

Judd's? Judson's?

Transion to Hot

Went to LA
Rode Bikes in Venice
Ran on the Beach
Went to the Getty
Rode Public Transport in LA
Jill is the best Navigator
Skiing Good in June
Exicited about sailing

The snow has only melted 2 weeks ago and I miss it.

Inspired by Candide Video
http://www.candidekamera.com/cinemaroom/cinemaroom.html

My sprinkler system is lame

Top pic is of Sheep Mountains

Heading to the ridge

Deep Spring

It was a very unique spring of skiing. One of the craziest I can remember.
The winter usually starts off with a bang here with big storms in Sept Oct and Nov. Then there is a typical indian summer lull in Dec and Jan.... and it usual snows lots in the spring, but this year was more pronounced at both ends.

Spring skiing started with the 6 foot dump while we were at the yurt...and it didn't end until the end of may. Who knows, the way this spring is going, we may have a few more powder days in June.

Some Great Moments:
Skiing from the yurt, in the storm at night with 8 good friends.

Skiing up from the yurt in the wind storm with AS and BO.

Bluebird day at Alta with BO and Caleb with two feet of fresh. We dropped into High Boy first run then the Ho, then lifts stopped when the power shut down. We waited for hours the it paid off. The day went from good, to shity to great. We got lucky on this day becasue many were stuck on lifts for hours or went home. By the time sugarloaf opened most people had gone home and you could cruise to the Collins side even though lifts on that side were closed. We traversed into ballroom totally untracked with nobody behind us. Unheard of and surreal.

The May days at the bird when everyone showed up to ski the epic deep cold may storms. The hour trams. The bazaar lift organizations. It was just like Christmas.

Getting first tracks under Gad2 off Knucklehead.

Riding snowbird with Sam and BO and getting sluffed in little Corbet's and dropping into Alta with Sam.

Skiing Alta at 6pm with Luke and BO and skiing the north face of Baldy at the limit of steep and deep.

Alta Sunnyside from Aaron Stanford on Vimeo.

Alta Bluebird Ballroom Untracked Empty Nobody from Aaron Stanford on Vimeo.

Alta Tombstone Untracked from Aaron Stanford on Vimeo.

Wasatch Spring Skiing from Ian Provo on Vimeo.

Yurt 2010

It snowed and snowed and snowed. Each night more than the next. On the last night Jill and I dug our way out of the the cozy snowcave into a nighttime blizzard to find our skis barried to the waist. We all skined out together in the night throught the super deep blizzard. It was fun to have two flashes, triggers that worked, time to work with it all and patient skiers. I learned a lot. Little did we know that our "spring sking" was just begining.

Creamy at Last

Peak Photo is a great company and you can buy more photos here http://www.peakphotoalta.com/

View your photos

March 28, 2010

Sugarloaf Action Roles 20 -29

I didnt take this photo, and its not me, but its kind of cool becasue Mike and I saw this jump and commented on how cool it was, then the next day we see that TGR has been filming there.

WFT

Wear Pads...

Land on the small part of the trany....

Practice and memorize your line...

Head toward the judges....

Let it Rot

We built a new compost pile and three new raised garden beds. My patented corner technique worked OK, but after seeing Ryan's beds I wished I had used Cedar rather then stained Fur. ..so lesson learned there. Having a hard time figuring our where to put the deck and how to design it because where it seems like it should go, is right in the sunniest spot where it gets baked all summer. We also got our new Legacy Sugar Maple tree today. The Department of Urban Forestry came and planted it in our front yard. Pretty cool program it you ask me. We think the Maple tree is very relieved to have made it into the yard of a Canadian.