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!