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So another solid weekend...it got off to a rocky start, but ended amazingly.

Friday I called off work to go to Patrick Shire's funeral...Patrick was on our team for the previous three years...this year he had moved to Roundtop's team. I only got to coach him for one year, but, he definitely made an impact on my life. He was one of the smartest kids I knew...he was involved in a fatal skiing accident at Denton the previous weekend - 13 years old...needless to say it rocked our team and last week everyone was bummin...the funeral was super sad, but a ton of people showed up and it was great to see all of the support. Patrick will be deeply missed.

The last thing Patrick would want any of us to do is to stop skiing. So, Saturday practice went down...of course, i'm a big idiot and raged it a little too hard Friday night, slept through my alarm, and showed up way late - like noon...I know i know...blah...i was in time for team pictures though, which worked for me! While the photog (who wasnt shooting Canon...lame) was dicking around, I snapped a few of my own, and us coaches started getting a little silly...



The rest of sunday was pretty uneventful - chad amanda and I went over to Wishard's for dinner...I practically fell asleep at the dinner table, then I crashed at Chad and Amanda's.

Sunday sunday SUNDAY! Man, sunday rocked! FIS legal SL course in the AM down Blue Streak. Code Red had a killer set, and it was a fun course! I wanna do that more often...after running that a couple times, i played around on Liberty's backside till lunch time. Despite eating massive shit and my shoulder not functioning for about 10 minutes, the skiing was awesome! After lunch, Amanda, Danny, and I had a parent's clinic for all of the athelete's parents. It was awesome! Our parents rock, and they are only going to get better. Of course, when 1:45 rolled around, it was play time!! Highlights consist of amanda FINALLY boosting a jump instead of sucking it up (way to go!!!!! yes!), teaming the ultra ridge, bashing the wussy bumps on eastwind, death training the booter with dualing spread eagle w/ antennae, and watching curt show up his nephew twice with a solid 70s style spread, and a daffy the second time. Hysterical. Everyone had so much fun...thats what skiing is about. You know you have a solid crew when you turn 600 vertical feet of dirt and "snow" into an "epic day".

Gate training tonight and Thursday, then the Tussey SL all weekend. It's staying cold, the snow is holding up, and everyone is skiing so well. I'm so pumped.


And did I mention we pulled the trigger on Utah tix???? Hell yah! March 7-17 - $200 roundtrip...god bless you Southwest!

"Today was proof that you don't need the best conditions to have a good time..."

That was one of the quotes of the weekend from last week's Vermont trip...but before we go there....UUUUTTAAAHHHHHH

So, it's not secret, I'm like everyone else and blow major ass when it comes to this blogging stuff. But, that doesn't mean I'm totally sucking at life sitting around whacking it...just that I'm too busy getting after it to blog about it...haha

Utah was rad. Not sure what else to say. A few highlights...

• Balls deep in pow the first day


• Balls deep pow the second day


• General Grits' breakfast burritos


• Alta


• Cat skiing at Pow Mow


• Totally getting pumped on heli skiing at Pow Mow but getting shut down cause visibility was lame


• The High Traverese on Baldy


• Watching Chad tomahawk while paralleling a rock face in the Ampitheater


• Telling Amanda we go a foot dump when we really got absolutely nothing


• Amanda believing us that we got a foot dump


• That bomb ass burrito place


• Popping my skis off next to Nobis


• The Free Skiing nationals at the Bird


• Chatting with Sage about his skis


• Being in heaven aka Snowbird


• Signing two kids' helmets because I was billed as Subarau's biggest fan


• B-Squads


• Shane and Jess


• Totally sweet photo ops

And obviously sooo much more...the brain is just foggy...it is 420 afterall...

Some stoke:

Wishard and Amanda at Alta


Amanda tits deep at the Bird


Me balls deep at the Bird


Chad doin the damn thing


Shane hanging out in the white room


The old man still has it


Sigh. I wanna go back.

holy crap

only two days out and jesus christ am i excited...

UUUUTTTTAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH