JakeCast

Ski Days This Season: 5

Collin’s Valley, Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT: 5

Damn. I made it roughly a week and a half before relapsing. My addiction has reared its ugly head once again and I’ve begun hunting for snow.

Oct. 10, 2009
I love G’ing out my low snowpack turns

Mike makes some laid back turns

I send my first air of the season

Oct. 13, 2009
I get ready to bag my first pow turns of the year

Kyle, stoked to be done hiking

I found some fresh turns

Kyle, laying out his turns

I find my first spine of the season

Oct. 15, 2009

Not the easiest approach

Sanders, looking for snow

Mandatory self-portrait

LCC needs some snow

I get read to drop-in

Goodnight for now

Ullr, show me what you’ve got!
Jake

Ski Days This Season: 1

Collin’s Valley, Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT: 1

This was pretty inevitable, a hair dusting of snow in October and easily some of the sketchiest turns I’ll make all season. Totally worth it.

I’m Stoked.

Goin’ for it.

Nik hiking for more.

Moon Rising.

Oh Ullr, you should make this the best break ever.
Jake

Bike Rides This Season: 113

Bonneville Shoreline North, Salt Lake City, UT: 8
Bobsled, Salt Lake City, UT: 18
Squaw Peak, Uinta National Forest, UT: 4
Little Cottonwood, Sandy, UT: 6
South Mountain, Sandy, UT: 6
Deer Valley, Park City, UT: 23
Skyline, Bountiful, UT: 3
Mill D, Mill Creek, UT: 2
I-Street, Salt Lake City, UT: 1
Whistler, British Columbia, Canada: 38
Flying Dog, Jeremy Ranch, UT: 1
Sundance Resort, Sundance, UT: 3

Thanks to school I have no real content to post to the site even though it’s been a month since I’ve wasted your time with helmet cam video. I apologize. I’m going to go through my Whistler footage and try to post some video soon while I day dream of my care-free summer.

In other, more important news, SNOW. It’s on the forecast. For tomorrow.

Ahh…24 hours until I once again give up on my hopes and dreams and decide skiing is a much smarter way to plan my future than computer science…

Ullr, you are truly a sight for sore eyes,
Jake

Bike Rides This Season: 102

Bonneville Shoreline North, Salt Lake City, UT: 8
Bobsled, Salt Lake City, UT: 15
Squaw Peak, Uinta National Forest, UT: 4
Little Cottonwood, Sandy, UT: 6
South Mountain, Sandy, UT: 6
Deer Valley, Park City, UT: 18
Skyline, Bountiful, UT: 3
Mill D, Mill Creek, UT: 2
I-Street, Salt Lake City, UT: 1
Whistler, British Columbia, Canada: 38
Flying Dog, Jeremy Ranch, UT: 1

102 rides on the season! That’s about 6x as many as I did last year. Still uploading whistler footage, here is some action of the lower Monster Garbanzo Downhill course into the GLC Drop.

Alright Ullr, enough is enough, bring the white fluffy stuff,
Jake

Date: May 31-July 9, 2009
Location: Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT
Featuring: Me (Jake Kirshner) & Dex Mills

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Ah damnit. I was doing so good, biking all the time, hanging out on lakes and not even thinking about my skis…
That was a fun month and a half. Where are you Ullr? You need to come back to Utah soon! If you don’t I predict they’ll find me face down on a dirty mattress with a syringe in my hand, a rubber band around my arm and an empty jar labeled, “100% Wasatch Fresh Powder”

Jake