LINE

I can't wait for this upcoming season to begin, mostly because I will be riding on Line Skis! Last week I made it official that I'm going to be on the Line team this season! so yay! they made a blog post about it here: Line Skis News  I couldn't be more excited to get this season going!!

This was my personal mini edit from a trip to Pennsylvania last year Line posted it on their Youtube page. You should check that out because there are so many great edits and videos to watch on that page it'll take up your day or give you some procrastination material!

Snowbird

I skied a nice snowy weekend at Snowbird with my uncle and cousin who visited from Alaska. And got some POV footy, enough to make a short edit.

Homecoming

 Last month I had the chance to make my way down to Seven Springs Pennsylvania, with an invite to attend Kristi Leskinen's Homecoming competition. But due to a number of ill-timed injuries most of the field was unable to attend. So myself and five other girls got to play around the mountain and get filmed with all the crazy shinanigans that Seven Springs has to offer. Below is the edit that was made of the weekend, it depicts the fun times that were had by all. yay

Off to a Great Start!!

So far this season is off to a great start! I'm loving every moment of it!

There's a lot more to come!!

Kabe loves to swim!

This is Kabe! 

 She loves to swim! 

Beautiful!

Summer Hustlin

All work this summer, equals more time to play this winter!

Spring!

I haven't been updating my blog as much as I would like to the last part of the season my camera died, I kind of expected it to seeing as I found it in the snow while hiking around Brighton in the post season. It lasted me one good year and made it through a month of commercial fishing, some backcountry adventures and being thrown around quite a bit.  

This past week I went up to Mt. Hood for a few fun days of skiing with everyone that was invited to the West Coast Sessions put on by Amplid. The turn out was awesome everybody threw down considering the weather was very stubborn and couldn't make up it's mind about staying sunny or dumping snow. But I've learned that that is to be expected when dealing with  Timberline. All in all I had a great time! Thanks to Brandon Pastucka for putting on yet another great event. 

I snagged this photo from the Surface Blog. 

Now that I've been sitting at my mom's house for a bit I decided to work on my season edit. I managed to gather enough shots from the season to make a decent one. I wish I could have gotten more shots of better tricks but those will have to wait for another time. I'm pretty proud of it, mostly because I did all the editing with some help from friends who actually know how to edit. I think its my best yet. But there is still some room for improvement. Which is what is so great about this sport, you can always improve on something! Enjoy!

Erica Durtschi Skis in 2010 from Erica Durtschi on Vimeo.

I also have this up on the Saga Blog as well, go check out the new stuff that gets posted all day everyday there!

skiing update

The weather here has been subpar and I keep thinking that it's april instead of February. But no matter we've had enough snow to play with, it'd just be very nice if we could get more. I've acquired a few good photos of me skiing.

It was a crappy day so I went to a golf course to see if anything looked fun and found these

It's like marioland

          I had absolutley no speed, but this photo was fun to play with on a mellow day

Then I jumped off a bridge.

a very nice sunny day at Park City

and a picnic table

then we got the most majestic shot of this golden eagle. He flew right over us and I'm so glad we got this shot.

Now today is calling for 100% chance of snow in the Little Cottonwood Canyon, and I just got some Trekkers so I can now use my skins! Hooray.

Canyons Dec 20, Boxzilla

Yesterday I went up to the Canyons with Witt Foster and Saga Friends Brady Perron and Sam Webb to hit the 196″ Box named Boxzilla. It was a fun day the box was much easier for snowboarders to hit, I 50/50 it and actually made it to the end. Hennie VJ was there filming for us so he made an edit of the day which is down below for you to watch.

twinsies. This is Steph, she has good taste

Boxzilla...rraar!

Me taming Boxzilla

Canyons Dec 20th ... BOXZILLA ! from Hennie vJ on Vimeo.

December 6

Today we got a little bit of new snow to play with here in Utah. Unfortunately it was 19 degrees out so we couldn’t play very long, my feet wouldn’t allow it. So instead of going to PC today I went to ski for free after three at Alta for a few good runs. Then after that I went snurfing in a park. All in all it I had a good time in my new vadar jacket and varsity pants!! 

Skiing:

Snow Skate/ Snurfing:

Have a good season!

Art class

I am taking a foundation drawing class for school this semester and I had to do a two point view/ Perspective study. We pretty much got to choose what we were drawing, so I chose the photo of Angeli Vanlaanen from an issue of Freeskier magazine that was lying around my house. I had to draw everything boxy and show the plane changes, I'm so happy with how it turned out! weee

Saga Blog

So I am skiing with my older brother Tim on Saga this season. I'm very excited about it they have the best outerwear and it actually fits! yay. Anyway, I will be posting updates on the Saga Blog this season and I will try to keep this one up as well, but more people look at the Saga Blog than they look at my personal blog. So go check them out!

Here are a few photos that I put up on a post a while back of October skiing!

Hope you had a Happy Halloween, Brady and I sure did!

Back on snow

On Wednesday I went up into Guardsman's with a crew of friends and we played around in the minimal amount of snow that is up there! It was great we made due with what was there and had a great time. Plus I got to put my skis on which I haven't done since I broke my collar bone, and also the fact that it was summer it definitely got me more excited for the coming season! Like always...here are some photos: I'm in the purple and red!

                        

new season

Thanks to Facebook, about 20 people have posted the NOAA weather report for the Salt Lake City area next week, and apparently we're supposed to get a boat load of snow, I for one am quite excited for this but would like to take this moment to show what I did for this past weekend.

one thing we did was a lot of hiking, this hike down here is the mormon trail, its the trail that the founders of the Mormon religion used to hike into the salt lake valley and set up camp for a while. It's a gorgeous hike especially now that all the tree

s are turning colors.

The dizzy shot.

This is the group shot.

The majestic shot.

We even got a sunset shot. (on a different hike)

Played some soccer, with no shoes

and had a birthday bbq/bonfire

and it was good, now bring the snow and let it stay!!

The Weiner Mobile!

So last February my good friend Kim Pickel and I drove from Salt Lake City to Boise to visit my dad who was visiting on a business trip. I drove up to meet him because Boise is closer to me than were my dad lives, which is East of the Mississippi, so we made the trip. On the return drive back though we passed the Oscar Meyer: Weiner Mobile! I never made a post about it and just found the photos on my computer, and your not gonna make a post about passing the Oscar Meyer: Weiner Mobile! ha-enjoy!

Rearview shot, doesn't really make it look like it's closer than it actually is.

we couldn't get a good shot of the driver

K-Bye!

08/09 skiing video tape-mix

I managed to get a few good shots together from this past season and threw them together! I hope you like it, some might have already seen it since it's also up on newschoolers.com, enjoy!

Untitled from Erica Durtschi on Vimeo.

Bomb the Bass Feat Fujiya & Miyagi : Butterfingers

I'm not sure why but I really enjoyed watching this:
Bomb the Bass Feat Fujiya & Miyagi : Butterfingers
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Hike

I went for a hike up to Twin Lakes a few days ago to search for my boyfriend's ski he lost this winter, we thought it would be easy looking for a purple, yellow and white ski, but we ended the day unsuccessful. We might not have found the ski but it was still a good time! We ended up throwing rocks off the cliffs, its very exciting seeing them break into pieces and tumble in different directions, even more so when your standing bellow them (but not in their pathway) watching them come at you, it's crazy! My friend Paul Braunstein took this photo, it turned out pretty nice!

Summertime fishin

I just got back to Utah after a crazy past two months. I went commercial (set net) fishing in Egegik, AK it was basically a month in the middle of nowhere with lots and lots of fish. We didn't get to rest very much, fishing two tides a day makes for 12-18 hour days and you learn to enjoy sleeping in and afternoon naps. Then when i was finished with fishing i went to Mt. Hood for a few great days on the snow. The last day wasn't as enjoyable as the rest seeing as how I broke my collarbone on the big jump. It sucks but it's improving, however I'm sick of wearing a sling.  So I'm keeping this short since typing with one hand is slow and annoying! So enjoy the photos!! until next time... have a nice day!