SHOUT OUT--- SLC CREW

On the other side of the world in HUE, Vietnam. I want to give a shout to the crew in SLC. Thanks to Cold Smoke for making my week in the Wasatch ¨awesome". ULLR has delivered the pow pow and now its your time to play. I'll be thinkin of everyone, hoping everyone gets great face shots. I will return to Utah on March 6, in hopes of a great base and LOW avalanche danger. I will miss ya guys. Speak to yall soon. Keep traversing

From one side of the world to the other

Soligully spends a full week in the Wasatch before he hits the other side of the globe in Vietnam for 3 weeks
Soligully and I hit the Wasatch full force this week. This week brought variable conditions from bluebird, blizzard, wind blown to bitter cold temps. Everyday we showed up with battle gear and a permanent grin that was frozen on our faces. Due to cold temps we were unable to take much video. With a night up at Solitude Inn, Blue Star Cafe, Cotton Bottom Inn, Millcreek Cafe, Molca Salsa, Lonestar Taqueria, fish taco dinner party, Argenta Pub, Wing Coop, Silver Fork, a X-mas party and some sushi is how we spent our week accompanied by many chairlift rides. No touring due to high avy danger. Oh yeah a finale at The Windows on the Wasatch aka IHC for lunch.

The calm before the storm

About a foot of snow fell today and a winter storm warning in effect till tomorrow 6PM. lake effect snow on its way tonight

The vid below was filmed on my point and shoot today. It was snowing too hard to get quality video. Just a tease for what we will be skiing tomorrow.

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SPEECHLESS

Small hit in Hasty Bowl. FYI I door-hinged after landing!

This is me dropping the knee in Wasatch powder. I am speechless how good these few turns were under the Milkman Cliffs. DEEP COLD SMOKE run after run day after day in the "white room"

IT'S ONLY GOING TO GET BETTER---FGHasty Bowl--Find it if you can ???(FG)

Tell me your Serious ????(FG)

My Face is COLD-- This SOOOOOCKS...........(FG)

When Summit gate opens the hunt is on. After putting forth just a bit of effort, we find "the cream!" Scott, Frank, Sean and Pablo took the only lines in this area. Today was finished with Lone Star. Let the season begin.

And they opened Summit! need we say more

WHO?

THANK YOU!  

Rick James......Bitch!!!!!

I'm from FARGO, ND!

Hippie granola eatin tree hugger! go green!

Mexico

Took a trip to Cabo San Lucas with the little lady. Amazing! Great people, tasty Margaritas, and some fun surf. Traveled up the pacific coast to Tados Santos, checked out Cerritos (a famous surf break), and drank some of the best Tequila I ever had.

Although it was hard to leave the resort at times, we were able to explore a lot of the area. Meet some amazing people, saw a lot of cactus, lost my wallet (and ended up having dinner with a local family that found it and invited us over).

Pictures: 'the tunnel o love'(the tunnel leading to "Old Mans" surf spot), endless reeling chest high rights, seals lounging out, and my first 130lb marlin (took me 45minutes to reel it in).



I was able to grab a few cold water NY waves with Mike C before I left for Mexico. Fun day with a few surprising bombs rolling through. Mike is on the body board...the last picture is me sacrificing my lungs for a last minute photo (I got crushed about a second after I snapped the pic – Mmmmm, watery lungs).

And I thought my legs were good to go!

An interesting canyon drive and a full day of riding with friends on a stormy winter day set me back a few as I realized that I am not as in good shape as I thought. Day #18 and the legs be burnin'. Nothing a few pints at Argenta can't heal.

The skis had so much fun in the snow they asked for more on the way down the canyon


UDOT cleared the roads well so the ride down was slow but safe.

Filthy "Soup"

This photo was taken today at 4:30PM looking into the valley from the Mount Olympus trailhead on Wasatch Blvd. I'm glad I live appx 1,000 ft above the inversion. Utahns don't like the word "SMOG" but that is exactly what it is!!!!!!!

Vermont "POWDER" 12-8-08

Monday Monday MondayWill--the "New Guy"

What we love to do= you know

LOW-ANGLE LOVING

BUNNY BUSTER

Jones Pass, CO

A new adventure today with Snoworries. We decided to check out what Jones Pass was all about. Turned out to be a lot of work, and we didn't even summit. Snowmobiles are allowed on the pass and we sure wish we had one. Here are some pic's on the way up:

All in all, it was good exercise...

Jones Pass will definitely be visited again, with more knowledge from locals on the skin track locations of course.

1300' Elevation Gain
6mi RT
Route Ascended
Route Descended


Ohh yea, Romo boy had some sick face shots all day at Berthoud yesterday, here's a nice clip:

say car ramrod.

keep those tips up.

K-Town 12-1-08

Gobble Gobble Day

A few of us decided there is no better way to celebrate Turkey day than to start by making a few turns with a couple of cold ones at Argenta.

Ride em pab "2nd debutt"

How awesome is this

Practicing my right turn using outside right edge only.

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First Colorado Tour

Myself and Snoworries went up to Loveland Pass on Wednesday prior to my departure back east.

Here's a map of our route:


Key:
Red - Ascended
Blue - Descended

Tour Details:
2hrs and 30mins
2 Laps
700' gained
1400' descended

1st Ski tour of season

Well I'm sitting in Blue Star Cafe sipping on coffee recovering from being shitfaced all day yesterday riding with friends at Solitude and taking a short break from 6 days in a row. Going to make turns today on my new sticks after my caffeine fix. This past Monday I decided to go skin up Deer Valley instead of riding chairs. To accompany me I brought the dags. Started at Empire base and skinned up to the top of the Empire chair. As the sun blazed down on the snow it softened up and making turns was quite enjoyable for the three us. I wasn't able to get low enough for face shots but the dogs were choking on snow the whole way down. yep I was jealous and made them sit in the back seat on the way home.

Empire Peak

I wish I could be as fast as Izzie and Hanky on the uptracks

Top lift shack on Empire Mtn

Most efficient way up from the lodge was to use Orion trail to summit Empire Mtn.

A-Basin

Snoworries and I decided to hit the Basin today, not bad for preseason, had a few more runs open than last visit. It was a nice spring day, 50degs and sunny.

The Basin:

Snoworries working hard:

The Professor, we're hiking this tomorrow before I leave for NY:

The Professor is accessible from Loveland Pass, so we'll hit the Basin first for a few runs early on and then around 11am make our way to the summit. It looked pretty tracked out but yet still plenty to get for tomorrow.

Snowboy-

Opening Weekend

Solitude resort opened this weekend with 4 chairs running. After 3 days in a row my legs are feeling the burn and need rest. With all returning friends, this season is going to kick ass. THINK SNOW and keep your tips up! Or as crazy george would say "ski you later"

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More pics from Loveland

Loveland Pass/AVI Training

We woke up and made the decision to practice with our avalanche transceivers at Loveland Pass today.  Reality set in quickly when we practiced our multiple burial searching.  Keep on practicing because practice makes better!

Winter Weather for Rockies

I'm currently hanging in Columbus, but heading back to D-Town tomorrow and it looks like I'm in for a little treat:


Hopefully we receive the higher side of the forecasts and I'll be playing in over a foot of freshies on Thursday! StacheMan will definitely be coming Thursday, work or no work, he's in.

ULLR spotted on the East-Coast

TRICK OR TREAT!!!!!!!!!

Left in the Fall...

...approached somewhere in between fall and winter...

...and arrived in WINTER!!!

10:15 in NY and no traffic on the Belt Parkway?

Stopping for a breather.

Peak by 11:30 (thanks cat track). About 10"-12" (pretty heavy) on top.

First choice - Hellgate. Hmmm, no tracks...weird? Boner time!

Greg (fellow trick or treater) was kind enough to snap a shot of my psychdness (yup, just made up a word). Hellgate and the The Cliff were the specials on the menu... No shit there was like 15"-20" on this WHOLE SIDE of the hill! Wind kinda brought everything from the back part of the mountain and deposited it all over the front side. Luckyyyyy...

Dessert after a hard day's work! Also, some sweet and pretty surreal views on the way back down the hill...

So, today was definitely a tough day to top in the Northeast. This is the earliest I've ever gotten day one and I was pretty pumped to be able to strap in October and to have the whole mountain pretty much to myself. There wasn't even a centimeter of accumulation until right before I got into the the town of Hunter so I really didn't know what to expect? It was SICK to see snow and Fall leaves shaking hands today and I hope you guys can enjoy the pics. Took about 5 runs total and rode from 12-4. Temps were probably in the mid 20's and the wind was blowin pretty much all day (probably some gusts of up to 35-40). Thanks again ULLR, keep it comin. Wishin everyone a powderlicious (that's two) season.