Welcome to my best attempt to live-blog day 2 of Qualifiers at Snowbird’s US Freeskiing Nationals.

Day 1 was pretty gnarly with snow conditions being hard to predict. Snowbird’s Nik A., Kyle W., and Chuck M. all took falls during their runs.

The women should be starting soon and I’ll update this post as that goes down.

I’m running 64th of 68 or so and I’m hoping that means the snow will soften up by the time I run-

—11:05a—
Ladies have wrapped up. looks like a lot of coral reef snow on west baldy.

—11:07a—
#2 in Taos Abbott Smith (sp?) just took a couple hard falls

—11:59a—
Daryn E. just took a hard fall at the top and is not stoked in the slightest

—12:36p—
Carston O. just killed it down the center section of the venue!

—3:16p—
Made it down my run in one piece! Not sure if it was enough, but I’m glad to be down. Insanely variable snow on West Baldy-

—4:45p—
Bummer judges didn’t think I had enough speed through my line. ended up 36 of 64 :-/…I need to ski faster
Good luck to McKenna, Carston, & Tim tomorrow on Silvy