Snowbird and Park City turned on their lifts for the first time this season.

Jeff Christensen, Sean Smith, and I rode Snowbird all morning on Friday.  With only one run and one real lift open, it left a lot to be desired.  The snow conditions were not great, but being on skis with operating lifts was awesome.

Fox 13 decided to roll up, and I happened to be put on the news, check it out.

On Saturday Trevor Evans (Clandestino Films) and I rode Park City almost all day.   The new terrain park manager Jeremy Cooper is doing a great job already.   2 20-foot jumps, 3 street rails, and 5 other jibs on opening day is almost unprecedented here in Utah.  If this is an indicator of things to come this season, it is time to get stoked!

Sorry for the lack of pictures from today, the park was so crowded and the sky was overcast, so shooting video/pictures was somewhat pointless.  Keep your eyes open for something better as we get closer to Thanksgiving.

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!

Today Sean Smith (Clandestino Films) and I went to The Jibyard in Ogden Utah.  This facility is awesome for all of your preseason jibbing needs.   The setup right now consists of 4 in-runs with 4 rail/box options.  The in-runs are made out of the rollers that you might see on an industrial conveyor belt.  Rather than moving products in a warehouse, the rollers hurl skiers towards a rail or box at just the right speed in order to provide terrain park like skiing all year long.