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Friday, March 9, 2012

AN INTENSE FEAR OF HEIGHTS, RIDING LIONS LOOP

I'm really not sure where my intense fear of heights developed, but it happened early in life somewhere in New Jersey as a child. I seem to remember falling off the top of a large lumber pile in a lumber yard somewhere down by railroad tracks close to Fair Lawn Ave when I was a young kid, maybe that was when it happened. Anyway, I'm scared shitless of heights, unless I am on a pair of skis for some reason. So I like to go ride Loma once in a while and ride Lions Loop with it's exposed rim trails to help overcome those fears, and it intensifies when I take a solo trip....hence yesterday in Fruita, on the Loma Loops, 60+ degrees and no one there. Blissful

Dropping into Horsethief

Mary's Loop views



Thursday, March 8, 2012

TWO "EXPERTS" DIE IN AN AVALANCHE IN TETON NATIONAL PARK ON WEDNESDAY....

Pretty bad news for the Jackson community, Steve Romeo and Chris Onufer.....pushing it to the limit passed in an avalanche in Teton National Park.
From Steve Romeo's blog TetonAT.com



And the irony that Romeo had just posted this video on his blog just two weeks ago....crazy stuff.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

OK, LETS GET IT ON 2.0, VOTE FUCK NO ON EAGLE RIVER STATION, HONEY, I'M HOME.....

So, for those of you that already voted in Eagle two years ago, stating you thought Eagle River Station was a goat fuck, you get to do it AGAIN. Funny how those who have A LOT to gain from this project on the planning and zoning commission have agreed that it's a wonderful idea to replace this field which they picture on their website with the piece of shit building below it, on the Eagle River, in Eagle, Colorado, where every single piece of trash will eventually end up in the river where it always does, because wind and runoff put it there, and where "workers" will make 8-10 an hour and not be able to afford to live anywhere, and where I'd guess the majority of the businesses will go under like most others down at this end of the valley, and we will have a tremendous eye sore along the interstate, another GALL DAMN TARGET in the middle of the Silverthorne and Glenwood Springs Targets, and where no one can afford to shop anyway right now, and where the light pollution at night will never give Eagle the same view of the night sky, and where Eagle will foot the bill when the project likely fails, and where this proposed project is more than twice the size of the original ERS offering, which we told Red Development to shove up their ass with a "NO" vote, it's funny aint it? Well boys and girls it's time to hit em where it counts again and vote NO, as a matter of fact, vote HELL NO on ERS again, for lack of a better description, it's STUPID. Hi mayor.

If you vote yes, this is the hunk of shit mall, less hundreds of thousands of square retail space that you will look at, instead of the image above without the piss poor message on it. Hellooooo Planning and Zoning commission. 
At $8/hour I'll bet they fill these places up like they are infected with the plague.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

LET'S GO BACK TO JACKSON HOLE ON A2B, WHERE IT IS STILL SNOWING TODAY...

It's been a bit of a shit winter, now melting down here in the Vail Valley, unless of course you reside in Jackson Hole

Sunday, March 4, 2012

PARIS-NICE ROLLS

photo; Roberto Bettini
While everyone was himming and hawing at Gustav Erik Larsson winning the prologue at Paris-Nice today, there was another story that I found pretty interesting. Tejay Van Garderen of Bozeman, Montana (BMC Racing) finished fourth, and that my friends is a statement from a very talented and young USA rider. This is a big story, a really big story.....
Unfortunately, Andy Schleck once again shows early that he is just not going to be able to hold his own in a TT format, finishing well back (over a minute) in the opener.

Saturday, March 3, 2012

IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THIS MOVIE....GET IT, AND LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT THE SOUL OF SKIING

On February 17th, 1986, myself and 11 of my best skiing buddies drove and flew to Jackson Hole Wyoming. The storm that hit Jackson that week had deposited tremendous amounts of  snow on the mountain the previous days, and we were forced to fly into Bozeman, MT and then jump on a bus for 11 hours back south and over Teton Pass to get to Jackson. we could have driven there in 9-10 hours from Summit County which some of our party had done. When we arrived in Jackson at 1am in the morning, we heard the bad news. Ski Patroller Tammy Ramer had been killed earlier in the day on an opening route at Jackson and the mountain was closed to skiing, for two weeks. The summit at the tram exit had received 11 feet of snow OVER NIGHT and the mountain was one huge avalanche hazard. So we drank at the Moose for four days then flew home. Our journey was a pilgrimage to the mountain made infamous by Warren Miller movies and we went to drop Corbet's Couloir and ski the rest of the legendary mountain. We had heard rumors of the Jackson Hole Air force back in those days and wanted to check out their scene. This movie documents the Story of the JH Air Force and should be watched by any and all of you who think you know anything about skiing the wild....it's good shit maynard.


Corbet's....no time to fuck around up here....I went back the following year in 1987 with good friend Tom Crowley, and I've got some old photos buried somewhere from that trip and the day we dropped Corbet's Couloir clean and survived it, narrowly missing the wall on the right after dropping it from the top. Immediately after dropping it and skiing it clean, I swore I'd never do it again. There is nothing more frightening on skis then standing at the top of this couloir, for an eternity, before finally committing to that first turn, it is beyond an adrenaline rush, and a right of passage for any true self proclaimed ski bum in this world....go get it.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

THAT IS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT....

This footage is from Beaver Creek today, and as usual, the place was empty because all the really good skiers usually end up in Vail, keep going there, please, Beaver Creek sucks, really. I think I rode the chair with other people 5 times today, and I skied from first to last chair.  

The snow storms of the last couple of weeks have been a tremendous game changer in Colorado, and as of tonight it is still snowing hard on the hill. It did not stop snowing today once, which is why I had to one up it on Epic Mix for 55,000 vert today....stellar.

WELL A2B FANS, NOW THAT IT IS FINALLY SNOWING IN EAGLE COUNTY, SOME VIJ FROM YESTERDAY...

Right on the verge of being able to charge this stuff really hard, one more big storm, and it is snowing right now, and it's gonna be on full tilt.