Pictures 12/02/2010
I was hoping that I would have a chance to edit some of my thanksgiving footage before my final exams snuck up on me. I failed. I will get some editing done over Christmas. Brighton received something like 50" of snow the week of Thanksgiving. It made for some excellent skiing. Every lift on the mountain was open by Thanksgiving day. That does not happen often. What else does not happen often? Skiing powder this deep in November. This first picture is from Wednesday, November 24th. The high temperature that day was -1F. With wind chill it was dipping down closer to -27F. It was definitely one of the colder days that Utah sees.  This next shot is from Thanksgiving day. I rode with Mitch Potter for most of the day that day. My brother in law, my sister (his wife) and his brother were all too lazy to come up that day. Boy did they miss out! Millicent at Brighton opened early and there was plenty of powder, pillows, and cliffs to be had by all. This picture is from one of my last runs of the day. It is a little pillow line on Mt. Millicent. It obviously isn't the steepest or sketchiest pillow line in the world, but it was A LOT of fun!  Wish me luck with finals, and keep your eyes out for reviews of the Surface New Life skis, POC receptor helmet, POC Lobes Goggles, POC cornea goggles, Columbia Powder Bowl jacket, and the Backcountry Access Squall pack! I will have those posted soon! Add Comment Bittersweet 11/16/2009
Piete Leeflang, Jeff Christensen, and I went to Brighton on Saturday. We had full intentions of filming some awesome jibbing (Brighton has been open for about a week), as well as some awesome groomers. Right as we got to the parking lot, it started dumping snow. The lift line was long so we decided to hike. After a short 10 minute hike we got to the terrain park to get our jib on. Brighton really needs to learn how to build park features. None of their boxes or rails have jumps onto them at all. Yes, you can always ollie on to any feature, but it is hard to do more than a 270 on when there isn't a lip. The jibs were not good enough to take pictures of, but we were also having too much fun on our first day on snow to stop and take pictures. After about an hour of jibbing the snowfall was so hard that we could no see more than a few feet in front of our faces. We decided to ski down and we were able to ski some knee deep pow! Unfortunately the only thing under this fresh snow was a solid base of rocks and boulders. Again, the snow conditions weren't good enough for pictures, but we were having too much fun to even try. All in all, the day was bittersweet, decent snow, horrible base, horrible jibs and a lot of fun! |   |
