Posts Tagged ‘Powder’

May shred

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

After some nagging I got my hands on a few photos taken from the past week in the Utah backcountry.  Once the clouds cleared we got some great shots, both video and stills.  Below are a few of Ross Downard’s photos.  He also made an edit from his GoPro which I will attempt to embed.

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deep enough to drop cliffs.
Chairlift.
Kyler Cooley Sending it.
snowmachines
Edit.

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Durtschi and Durtschi Brighton Shred

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Today Erica and I got to go to Brighton and ski some of the 40 inches that has fallen in this out of the ordinary april storm.  It was a nice little present and it made it easy to convince my sister that we should go to Brighton instead of Park City (usually April is good slushy Park skiing at PC).

I have not been to Brighton in a while and I was excited to ride the Milly quad lift, last time I was there it was a slow little double chair.  It was cool getting faster laps on that zone.

Tommorow is going to be an even better day, with Snowbird and Alta not even opening today because of an avalanche that blocked the road.  So they are just stacking up the pow, should be an epic day up there tommorow.

Sibling rivalry… not when there is powder

Looks like my pole grew, 180’s can be thrown anywhere at Brighton

Hand drag off the rock, Erica followed me off this one

Erica took a little more speed and went for a 180 off this thing, you do not worry about flat landings when its this deep

Chairlift cruisers runs

Erica goes for a slash and gets what she paid for

flatspin in the trees so we could see, it snowed about 10 inches just while we were skiing, wow

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After I uploaded these pictures (credit: Jordan Harper) I noticed that the chairlift is in half of them.  I guess when it is snowing this hard you do not have to stray far from the lift.  Lets hope this is not the end of our late winter.

Chads Gap The Spectators Perspective

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

We got an E-mail at Saga Outerwear from a guy who was skinning up the Gulch March 6th and got a great view of our Chads gap session.  The reaction is funny, and I am happy the guys know that I am OK.  I am OK.  You are going to have to wait for the movie Revolver to see the close up zoomed in shots ( I had to watch it twice to even see the speck fly across the youtube video).  The guy names the video Kangaroo, maybe it looked like that from far away, but it was a double flip.

Alta, UT

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Since Jordan just put up many images that epitomize Alta here are a few from a jump my roommate and I hit a short hike off of one of Alta’s lifts.  When most people think of Alta its just deep powder and cliffs, so I thought it was only fair to offer up yet another aspect this ski area possesses.  Enjoy the pictures, and to anyone living in Utah, come up this weekend, Sunday should be amazing.

My first hit, a little bigger than expected

Flat 3 turned to 7....

Sunshine, snowmobiling, and jumping

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

I hit this jump a few years ago when the base was twice as deep.   I thought it would be a small little drop that would be great for switch landings; however, when we rolled up to it it was anything but little.   The landing wasn’t ideal but the sun was shining and photographer Erik Seo convinced us to hit it enough times to kill any chance of finding another feature.  Luckily the powder was deep in other places so snowmobiling was a great way to pass the remaining hours of daylight.

First hit

Seo is still learning how to climb hills

Dunking on Seo