Thanks goes to Ollie Bell who uploaded this to Vimeo for me! High-Res: http://www.jakecast.com/video/myTaosQualifierRun.m4v Interesting how different that looks on video than I imagined it in my mind. I saw myself going twice as fast and forgot all about getting lost getting to that double at the bottom. Thanks again to Ollie for putting that [...]
Last week came and went in a blur. The six day journey Nik and I took to New Mexico for the Freeride Championships was completely uncharted territory. New ski area, new event (Freeride World Tour), and a new judging system. Overall it was a very fun experience and something I’d like to do again next [...]
While I’m not actually there (taking the day off to do homework), I am watching some lines on MSI live webcast (http://freeskiingworldtour.com/live.html). Looks like some pretty burly conditions as Carston Oliver (qualified 3rd yesterday) has gone down as well as Taos’ female 2nd place finisher McKenna Peterson. Hopefully everyone is okay. Here is some video [...]
Prepare for a bumpy ride. Here is the helmet-cam video from my qualifier run. The count -> 2 spreads and 2 airs (bottom was a double) too me exactly 60 seconds top to bottom. I think I’m going to start spring break and just begin training myself to point the whole venue. Go for a [...]
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 [...]
