Saturday, January 30, 2010

Jen's perfect ski day


So it hasn't snowed in about a week but the snow that was out there was real good if you found it. Jen Lang made it up which was awesome and here is her shout out plus everybody else's to Adam Lang, who unfortunately couldn't make it up today.

Me skiing down Silver Basin off of box car.... little sketchy underneath!

Sean skiing Boxcar

Mike Benson, Courtney's Cousin-in-law with his CGR premier!
Becky same line off of Eagle Peak down Speed Control in SouthBack
Sean skiing Speed Control down Eagles Peak

Sunday, January 24, 2010

The weekend that nobody saw coming!

This weekend was supposed to be horrible no new snow in the last week, but since it stayed cold the snow in the backcountry was great on Saturday! Especially if you went past the ski area boundary! It started snowing heavily on Sunday and I hope it will keep it up!
Me and Becky Skiing Eagles Nest Sunday
Sean Hiking up Eagles peak
Sean going HUGE!
Brian with a nice grab
First time down Eagles Peak
Guntower

Sean Paradise Bowl
Me skiing Rinky Dink

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

2nd Anniversary at Aleyeska Alaska

Court and I went to Big Sky MT four our honeymoon, Cypress BC for our 1 year, and this last weekend we went to Aleyeska AK for our 2 year anniversary.
We almost had a divorce ;) however when court tried to make me drive a ford edge or a jeep patriot as a rental car....... please I have way better taste in vehicles and so we ended up with this 2010 Dodge Ram...... which was super fun..... right up until we had to fill it up!
Aleyeska is an ok Mountain, I would give it 4 out of 5 stars, we did wake up Sunday morning with 8 inches of light new powder!
We had lunch on Saturday at Chair 5 restaurant in Girdwood AK, check out the moose in the background with lights.


Aleyeska got 4 inches the first day, 8 inches on the second day

The resort was by far the best part of this Mountain! IT WAS INCREDIBLE! You walk out of your room and walk onto a tram which takes you practically to the top of the hill! Sooooooooo cool!
We met up with our favorite locals Matt and Genny on the way to the airport which was awesome and had a late lunch with them at the Mooses Tooth!

Awesome trip, decent mountain, and a great getway

Court Skiing down in fresh snow... check out how excited she is

Saturday, January 9, 2010

I hate rock hard Ice!

Since it was rock hard ice today me and court decided after only a few runs we had enough. The base area was a series of rivers and lakes of standing water on snow after it had rained all night... And with going to ski Alaska coming up this next weekend me and Court decided to call it a day and save our legs for next weekend at Aleyeska.
The conditions at the base


Since we left early we stopped by the Alphin's cabin and had a great time with
the local widelife the elk love apples and bread!

A nice video of the local wildlife

If I could only get this close when bowhunting:)

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Happy New Years!

First Some Pictures from the Weekend! The videos are below, some pretty great ones from this weekend!
View on SundayFireworks at Crystal Mnt on New Years Eve
I will start with the third day in a row up at Crystal(Sunday), this is from Sunday when Caitlin, Sean and Caitlin(my little sister) hiked for over an hour in South backcountry and made it all the way to the saddle past Three Way Peak.
Me taking some easy turns on the north side of the bowl
Sean taking some tuns down the south side of the bowl
Me Skiing Down Silver Basin near Boxcar
Caitlin Skiing on new years day by Queens run
Adam, Sean, and Paolo skiing the trees by Queens run on New Years Day
Jen Lang Skiing CMAC
Adam Lang and Sean skiing off some drops
Adam skiing Silver Basin in South backcountry
Sean and Caitlin skiing Silver Basin by Boxcar in South Backcountry
yes.. yes... Paolo made me a CGR shirt for Christmas! it is Sick! We will be making some orders if you are interested! Also he made some stickers too!


Damn that T-shirt is incredible!


And Lastly Sean and Adam being...... Sean and Adam