28th Jun, 2010
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Last tram was 8 days, 7 hours and 47 minutes ago. For about 7 of those days I’ve been stuck on my butt (or at least not doing cool stuff like skiing) as I managed to blow my ankle up the day after last tram Fuck this noise. [...]
20th Jun, 2010
Sigh. The end is here. Today marked the ending of Snowbird’s official 2009/2010 ski season. From skiing a groomed ribbon of snow under Gadzoom on November 17th all the way until pond skimming on June 20th, it’s been a blast. Fret not, because while today might have been the end of the lift served ski [...]
14th Jun, 2010
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Another 600″+. Another 100+ days. And Snowbird is calling this the end of the 09/10 season. So I guess that’s that, right? WRONG. It’s not over until every last inch of snow melts out of Baldy Main and I am not longer able to get a dune buggy [...]
6th Jun, 2010
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] This post is boring. But I just took this sweet photo on my deck of the storm currently slamming into the city of Salt Lake. …I took the photo in a robe taken from Deer Valley’s Condominiums. My neighbors across the way pay extra for the view. Jake
4th Jun, 2010
From ESPN: According to Freeskier Magazine and the Sierra Sun newspaper, freeskier Arne Backstrom, younger brother of Ingrid Backstrom, passed away yesterday after a fall in Peru. Backstrom was on a ski mountaineering trip with Sweetgrass Productions when the accident took place. He was 29. Sources close to the family say that Backstrom and his [...]