One run off the Lighting Ridge cat skiing at Powder Mountain in Ogden area of Utah. The run I ran in this video is off James Peak which is actually about a 20m hike or so from where the cat drops you off. I hiked it because I'm a man.
Date: December 29, 2008 - January 29, 2009 Location: Snowbird, UT Featuring: Me (Jake Kirshner), Nik Aksamitn, Dex Mills, Brady Newton, Alex Mazurkewycz
Things I have learned in the last month.
1) Getting skiing "out of your system" over winter break is damn near impossible
2) You don't have enough control unless your boots feel like a tourture device
3) High Pressure doesn't have to be all bad
Even though a high pressure system was in Salt Lake for about two weeks during January and made the entire town look like that Steven King book, The Fog (or the Mist or whatever, I forgot the actual title) the skiing at still remained pretty good.
Although, I was the first to drop to praise Ullr when the snow finally returned last week...
But wait! There's more... Pictures
As a bonus for the extra amount of time it took me to upload this, here are some pictures taken with awesome ski photog Adam Barker (http://www.adambarkerphotography.com/) in early January.
Adam and I find some powder off Lone Pine.
I can ski with the sun in my eyes.
Adam shoots my skiing from the 3rd person perspective.
Date: August 19 - 30, 2008 Location: Salt Lake City, UT - Big Cottonwood Canyon, UT Featuring: Me (Jake Kirshner), Mike Saltsman
While the Dew Action Sports Tour may be all the rage in Salt Lake City, mountain biking in the Wasatch is where the real fun is being had. Here is some footage to prove it!
Recipe for lame crashes:
(1) parts: first biking of the season
(1) parts: first time in clipless pedals
(1) parts: narrow areas between bridges and storage bins
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