I had a crazy spring/early summer. Following a full World Cup Dh and Super race season in Europe, I made a stop at US Nationals in Colorado, and then headed home to Tahoe for a week before heading off to Alaska to go film with Warren Miller Entertainment! It was an awesome trip up to Points North Heli in Cordova and it was super fun working with Tom Day, Danny Day (who I grew up with in Tahoe), and Court Leve.
After Alaska I joined my girlfriend Marie Michele Gagnon, and her teammates Marie-Pier Prefontaine and Eve Routier, as well as Federica Brignone and her boyfriend in Mexico for a few days of surfing and summer in Sayulita! Then I came back to Tahoe for a few days, drove up to my home for the summer, Canmore, Alberta, and then flew to Mammoth for our annual spring ski camp with the US Team. Then I finally flew back to Canmore after that month and a half of craziness and I am settling into the summer training routine here! It has taken me a month to recover from all that travel, and to go through all the photos and get organized enough to blog again! Here are some photos from Alaska! Also here is my first blog about alaska with some other photos: First Blog in Alaska
Alaska
The waiting game. Its a lot like waiting around for a Downhill race. Except you are waiting around to go ski powder on the biggest mountains in the world, and possible ski something that has never been skied before. Mitch Tolderer and Kevin Quinn contemplating. Tom and Court getting ready.
The Nefco
Down days at the Orca Lodge......
The Nefco... Great food, games and good times. I spent some time serving food and washing dishes!
Alaska
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| Finally the sun came out and it was time to shred! |
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| Off to the big mountains! |
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| You go from chilling at the Orca Lodge at the ocean to this... In some of the biggest mountains that I have ever seen covered in meters of snow, with an A-star helicopert to take you to the top of anything you want! When the conditions are good this is the end of the road; the best skiing to be found anywhere, period! |
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| Shooting with film! There is something special about film over all the digital cameras that everyone uses today! |
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| Tom Day in his element. Filming Mitch ridding the Silver Strand. |
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| Court getting the shot. |
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| Mitch on Silver Strand. This shows you how big these mountains are. Look at the spine to the lookers left two photos up for some comparison! |
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| Tapas... Delicious |
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| Atom Smasher. My first solo line. |
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| OZ |
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| Tom and Court set up a barbie angle to film this shot. It was on the flank of this beast! |
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| Mitch sending his line after I did mine... Making a movie! |
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| Looking back at another zone after skiing it! I love Alaska! |
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| We did some on-slope shots here. Mitch and I jumped off that Ice cliff on run #2 |
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| Ice Cliff |
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Lunch on the Glacier
That was the end of day one of skiing... we got a lot of good skiing in and were fired up for the next day and getting onto some bigger lines!
Day 2 |
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| This right here in the reason why I will come back to Alaska every year as long as I can still ski! The Sphinx is the coolest mountain to ski that I have ever seen, and I had dibs on first tracks down it for this trip. This was our project! |
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| Court sizing it up with the lens! |
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| Mitch getting dropped off on the spin to the lookers right! |
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| The Sphinx massif in all its glory! Ill be back to ski you soon. |
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| Its always so fun ridding in a helicopter... |
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| Arriving back at the lodge at 8pm after a long and successful day of skiing. Check out some of the other skiing that we did on day two here at this link: Day 2 Shreding |
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| Kevin Quinn teaching his daughter how to fly! And there is tom capturing the moment. He truly takes passion in his work! |
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| That view never got old! There is nothing like ending a day with a beer watching the sun go down over the ocean in Alaska after a day of flying around and skiing! |
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| Another one |
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| And another |
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| Some of the clients having some fun! Jumping in the water |
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| The best fish tacos in Alaska! And Cordova! Baja Taco... I guess these guys used to drive this bus down to Mexico to fish in the winter and then come back to Cordova for fishing in the summer! |
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| Cordova, Alaska |
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| The harbor. They catch a lot of delicious fish here in Cordova in the Copper River delta! |
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| The harbor with Mt. Eyak in the background! Its so cool that they have a ski area right in town and just above the ocean! |
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| Ingrid Backstrom and Jessica Quinn Soblowski enjoying a sunny afternoon in Cordova. |
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| Danny Day taking a turn behind the camera capturing the moment! His dad Tom in the background directing! |
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| It was so fun to spend some time in the mountains of Alaska with the Days. I grew up in Tahoe playing baseball and going to school with Danny Day and I always herd about his Dad filming skiing all over the world for Warren Miller, so to do a trip with them was so much fun! Make sure to check out the film this fall in your home town, its going to be called Flow State! I cant wait to get back up in these mountains! |
