Hood

Before I head up to my summer job of commercial fishing in Alaska, I got a few days of skiing in at Mt Hood with the surface team. I've only had two days to ski so far day one was just hot lapping through the public park, which is very well put together my favorite feature they had up was a fairly poppy jump with a tree in the middle of the knuckle that you could do taps, tree grabs, and just about anything you want. Then for day two we hiked out to a step up but due to the intense heat and lack of snow the in-run had a giant patch of dirt. So we all agreed that a step down would be easier and faster to build plus we didn't need a lot of speed which is nice because it worked out. The landing had an annoying compression but we worked through it.

Here are some photos from day two check it:

I'd like to thank Jason Eichhorst for letting me use these photos their great!

you should go and look at his other photos and stuff here: 

www.fromoverhere.com

I didn't ski today because high winds and terrible weather closed the mountain so I went and played in Portland, hopping around thrift stores having a grand 'ol time!

Mt Hood

I skied with Surface today at Mt Hood and it was such a fun day, I didn't get any photos but you can see some that were put up on the Surface blog. It was bundles of fun and if you get a chance to go I suggest you take the opportunity to head on out to Oregon for the summer snow. it's worth it. Surface blog Click me

Time to get artistic

Last year I took a drawing class and over the past year I have tried my best to keep up with it. It's very time consuming but I really enjoy it! Check it out: 

 

<(Mac Dre) 

<(Brady Perron)

<(My brother Tim)

<(a robot puppet) 

Summertime

well it's summer now and I'm about to go to Alaska for some fishing hopefully I'll make some money and be able to come back to Utah next year for some skiing and schooling. I figure I should do something for my future next year. I'm also working on my season edit, I'll probably use it as a promo as well but its not done, I've been doing some hiking at Brighton and got a few shots to add and I'm heading up to Oregon to ski with my brother at Hood so maybe I'll get some more good stuff. If anybody knows someone with any shots of me skiing make them send it to me please!! haha but seriously I really wish I had gotten more shots this year of my better skiing, but whatever maybe next season.  Thanks!

This is just a sample stay tuned...haha

Photos

I don't have much to say a lot has happened this past week and I just wanted to post some photos I don't even know if anybody sees these but they are pretty cool! There a few dog photos, I like dogs.

Queen's Cup

This weekend was the Queen's Cup. It was a lot of fun this year, I didn't ski as well as  I wanted, I did better during practice than in the competition. I felt like I got 8th but in fact I actually placed 4th so i guess it wasn't that bad! On a better note this year pretty much all of the girls were stepping it up and throwing cooler tricks than I've seen at most competitions! It was cool to see, the ladies are killing it! (I'm in the red sweatshirt down by the sign!) 

Snowboarding isn't that bad :)

This past week has been a pretty good one, my feet are still slowly getting better I finally went to Surefoot and they made me some excellent footbeds, my boots are actually comfortable now and I'll be back to playing on my skis in no time! no more of this lapping through the park watching. Because I couldn't participate on my skis I decided to give snowboarding a try. So my friend Lauryn and I switched, she skied and I snowboarded. My first two runs were not so great, they were very slow and I fell a lot! But after I got the hang of it I learned how to turn, (toe side is the worst!) and I hit a dance floor box!  Its pretty pathetic but I'm very proud of it!!!!

Also I joined the Rime Knits family! Check it out:

http://rimeknits.com/RK_family_EDurtschi.html

Lauryn and I attempting our first run, Willem got in the photo as well.

First time on a snowboard since I was 12 years old.

I fell a bunch of times!

Lauryn on my skis

The switch up

These are my new footbeds, they are glorious!! 

We went to El Chubasco's for some delicious food after skiing. If you go there get the Horchata...it's too good!!