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Posts Tagged ‘Tim Durtschi’

Alyeska Resort

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Alyeska has gotten a ton ton of snow lately and I was lucky enough to experience the sunny side of it.  I showed up on Friday, about 2 days after Alyeska got pounded by a 50 or so Inch storm that caused the area to perform a 1:00 Late opening.

I am going to ski a few more days here before I head out to Haines Alaska to meet up with Julien JP Pep and Dane Tudor for some heli action, a.k.a. AK PBP action.  Alyeska is the perfect place to fine tune my skiing before I cram into a helicopter and get dropped off in gnarland.

I also did a little Ski clip for Alyeska Youtube, I will post that as soon as its Edited.

We gave Silver Saga Stickers to every kid on the Alyeska Freeride Team, coached on Saturdays by my brother Travis, go team!


Chair 6, for the upper mountain goods.

Julie Hiking the Chilkoot

Durtschi Hiking Chilkoots

The Drive to Alyeska from Anchorage is a nice coastal cruise


Chads Gap Filmed by Poor Boyz Production’s

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Filmer Steve Rozendaal put together a blog for the Poor Boyz site, and let us put it up on the Saga site including some of his photography from the Chad’s project.

I have been very lucky over my 10 plus years of filming skiing to be at every major Chad’s gap session. From filming Chad clearing it with my one chip digital camera to capturing Tim Durtschi on HD it has been amazing to watch.

This latest build was one of the hardest. Including a scouting day I spent over 70 hours at Chad’s over the course of 9 days. In that time my friend CR Johnson passed away(RIP), we had bad weather and with the five year reunion of Tanners crash on my mind I constantly questioned weather I should even be building it. There is nothing a filmer hates more then seeing one of his friends hurt, and as you will see(eventually) The most famous gap in the world did give up a new trick, but it also dished out some punishment.

When hiking up to Chad’s this is the first view you get of it.  I love this angle.

I just like this shot for some reason.

This photo was taken on the same day as CR’s funeral.  I was up there by myself watching a wonderful sunset and thinking of my friend.

because of a sun crust Tim and I had to chop the landing.  It took over 8 hours.

Here is Tim looking at Chad’s

Tim braking new ground.


A Mid Days Stroll Through Grizzly Gulch

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Saga got out the camera for a quick photo split down gulch while the sun was shining, and I got my one turn wonder style out.

A snow plow type turn.

Aggressive alpine skiing, The pole plant heard round the world.

Blast off, what is wrong with this picture? can anyone tell what I did wrong?

The trick to March pow skiing is getting the snow as soon as it falls, and the sun hasn’t baked it out yet.

Switch riding bosconian style

Chads Gap Speed Check Video

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

The weather got nasty and we have to wait through this next storm to hit Chads.  I made this little video from some of my speed checks, so people could see what its like to drop into this monster gap.

A Frenzy of Activity in Grizzly Gulch

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

My sister Erica and I went up to build a little jump to have fun with in the Utah’s own Grizzly Gulch.

We heard a rumor that Mike Wilson was in the Little Cottonwood Canyon building a gap for his new TV Series.

The Rumor is true, the next day I went up to help him build Chads gap.

Stay Tuned and we will see what goes down in the next few days… big stuff in The Famous Grizzly Gulch!

Erica through the Aspens

Building Jumps

Sister Durtschi with some Surfaces on her backWilson always in the lense, shoveling away, thats Leo in the background, he is helping shovel, thanks LEO!