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Here I am with some of the the Powderwhores.

Getting out and after some Powder.

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Back in Salt Lake

This is the coulior we skied today.

Might be the first time it was ever skied, but we will never know.

It's the one lookers left in this picture.The start of Neffs Canyon.

This was are crew today. Left to right.

Bret, Stephen, Emilie, and Me.

The dogs are around.

http://www.utahoutdooractivities.com/neffs.htmlThis is a better angle of the coulior.

If you look close you can see a red line marking what we skied.Getting close to the top.

Glad to be out of that city air.

Dropping in the coulior form the Top. There was and easier way in but not as fun as this one.

Once we made our way in it opened up for a little bit.

The snow was a bit funky. Some kind of wind slab.

A little powder on the right side.Working my way down to a safe place to wait."I'm safe, rip it Bret""Stephen put that camera away and lets get the rest of this thing done."

Back From Canada

Here's the crew I went up to Red with.

We are getting ready to ski in Montana.

This is the first stop of the three mountains today.

You might not be able to tell but this is the back of our friends truck.This is the W.M. Lodge. My Photos and words can't explain it.

I took this picture waiting for the lift to open.This is a good friend and I after a few runs making the best of a great day. My Camera didn't have much battery life for this long day of skiing.

So I just have to tell you quickly how this great day went.

After skiing the Y.S. Club we worked our way over to ridge line to the next resort.

A few good runs and it was down the valley a bit to the next basin.

A little bump skiing and back up to finish at the Bigsky base area.

Any real ????? about our day call me.

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Red Mountain Canadian Open Finals

View of Rossland B.C. Canada.

This is shot early morning getting ready to inspect the qualifier.

The Clouds you see are what the locals call the Rossland Sea.

The Valley when in Rossland is always dark and damp.

As soon as we got a few chair lifts up the sky would open.

This is the best shot I got of the qualifier.

The Clouds would drift up and down slowly through out the day.

It was a bit mystic.

Points from the Qualifier where going to be part of you score for over all points so I knew I was going to have to give it my best.

I had my run well planned in my head after pre skiing the slope at inspection.

By the time I was up for my run about 70 athletes had skied before me and the snow was even thinner and the bumps way bigger.

I was not able to ski my planned run the way I wanted. With quick changes thought out the run I was able lock down a smooth solid run to get me 11th tied with one of my buddy's I drove up with.Mt Robbert's.

A 20 minute hike from Red Mountains inbound skiing.

This is where the second and third day of the comp was held.

The second day was a bit harder. We had to hike to inspect the Slope, we had to hike to get out to get back to the base lodge. The run was long and had many options for air, speed, turns, and tricks.

I started my run with huge spraffy right of the top (a spraffy for those who don't know is a mix between a daffy and a spread eagle tweaked to the max) After landing I had a great amount of speed going. I ripped a few hard turns and cut left to some fresh snow working a fresh spine of snow and rock. Jumping back into the main chute. A hard right turn into the trees that bring you to0 the snagle tooth cliff. I stomped a double drop into the most open part of the run and picked up some speed for unnatural 360 (witch is spinning the 360 clockwise. For me normal is counter clockwise) Landing and a few more turn to the finish for day 2.

I move up a few spot to 7th place.

On the final day more of Mt Robbert's was opened for the comp.

It gave us more cliffs to hit on the top and a couple smaller air lower down and one big cliff band with lots of options.

The start I choose was a fast entry of the top to an air out of some trees. I stomped a big spraffy and had to slow it down to get to the next air. I sent a natural 360 ans stuck it clean. A few power turns to slow down for and air over some small trees. A hard right back to the snagle tooth. This time skiing it right off the top to a small transition that smoothed the impact.

A few turns and the biggest air of the day for me and yes no ones landed on my pillow of snow. Skiing away with ease but a lot of speed. Another unnatural 360, another smaller spraffy.

Now setting up for the last air. A blind roll over cliff drop. Wheres this take off??

Oh right here. Yes!!!! a few turns to shut it down and a little log jib and it's over.

But as I went to stop fell over loosing control for a second.

I lost a few points on that but Finished 3rd YEAAAAAA!!!

I also was nominated for the Ill' Eagle witch is the Canadian equivalent of the sickbird!!!!

Packed up for the ride back to Salt Lake.

After a quick stop in Montana to ski 3 resorts in the same day.

To Be Continued.

The First Comp of the Year is Over!!!

Just sitting at the Hostel in Rossland. The day went good.

I went into today in 7th and moved up some but not sure yet.

But let you know soon.

I'll load some pics when back to SLC

Red Mountain Canadian Open Freeskiing

Just got done my inspection run for the first day of the Canadian Open.

Going to chill a bit then go ski around to stay warm.

In Canada... eh

Here we are in Rossland B.C. We just had Dinner and a few Beers
This is the Hostel we are staying at. This is Scott he get the big bed cause he's been here before.
Daryn is Facebooking five girls at the same time.

He has the bottom bunk.

Chuck gets the top.

He just havin a few beers till bed.

In Utah

I have arrived in Utah and have been skiing Alta, it feels like I never left! It won't be long and I will be hitting the road again for the start of the freeskiing tour and a trip over the pond to Europe.