Monday, December 22, 2008

Christmas comes early in Utah

Christmas is still three days away, but Utahn's already have plenty to be thankful for. The snow is piling up on my ping-pong table almost as fast as it is in the Wasatch Mountains. There's been so much snow in the city Santa came down early to test some of Atomic's skis for his sleigh. Here he is blasting off my roof with a bag of toys. He wasn't thrilled with our cramped gas fireplace, lack of milk, and outdated advent calender, but he sure did love the Bentchetlers.

Jokes aside, the season is definitely in full swing here in Utah. Alta has a 62" base, and as a current storm is wrapping up another sizable one is set to hit us Christmas day (good thing Santa already stopped at my house).



Park City Mountain Resort has done a great job getting ample jibs and jumps built, with a ridiculously fun 5-pack jump line. If my roommate new how to take pictures I'd have a few action shots for this update, but his picture taking abilities are similar to those of a two year old. These are the last few jumps of the new park, with the superpipe slotted to open Tuesday.
I'm off to Alta tomorrow tomorrow to play in all the new snow, so I'm hopeful to get a few decent photos to make all you east coasters jealous (and yes, I realize there is a storm in New England).
On a different note, I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season and that Santa finds his way to your place too.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Some extra Rage Films footage

After much bantering I convinced Dan Norkunas at Rage Films to put together an edit from a bit of extra footage from this past season. Hope you all enjoy it and to anyone in the western part of the country, hope you guys are getting some of this much anticipated storm coming our way. Evryone needs it!

So until my roommate comes home and can teach me how to embed a video, click this link to enjoy a couple minutes of what winter should look like. It's slowly coming around here in Utah, as Park City has a small jump line and a lengthy jib line that is a blast, while Little Cottonwood and Big Cottonwood resorts have managed to open quite a bit of fun terrain. These next storms coming through should give me an excuse to give the new rockered skis a go.