RIP CR Johnson (October 8, 1983 – February 24, 2010)

SO I came home after a good day only to find out a very upsetting death happened today :(

One of my Idols has passed away this afternoon. FULL STORY HERE

After his amazing come back from the head injury back in 2005 being told he wouldn't ski again. His segments truly inspired me as to why we keep pushing our limits in skiing. He had an amazing comeback on the competition scene in January coming 2nd in the red bull linecatcher.

This is the second legendary skier Squaw Valley has lost in under a year. The first being Shane McConkey  last year in March. RIP. A friend of CR's wrote this eulogy for him: -CR Eulogy-

RIP CR JOHNSON
www.crtribute.com

"Only the things that you truly love will you pursue with that energy and for me my family, my friends, and skiing, that's it for me, that's my life. The joy i get from skiing, that's worth dying for."- CR Johnson

Another Sick Day

So with no new snow over night.... But no people shredding the weekends pow. There was still plenty for me :)

I found a very VERY nice line untouched. I wonder why? It was perfect.

This Picture does not give it justice due to the cornices and drops

This shows the steepness better. And a good view (spot the almost untouched field)

Mandatory drop only like a 1-2 meters but still fun

Note: I shredded the line first then went back to take step by step photos. So the tracks you see below are mine.

My Pole is somewhere down by that tree haha.

And I will leave you with my latest youtube finding:

18cm freshys in Whistler biatch.

So we seem to of had alot of snow :) 18cm of fresh on top of the 20cm we had yesterday which equals an epic day. Got up for first lift so worth it.  Bad point of the day was losing my pole in the Emerald trees. So yet another financial set back investing in a new pair. Guess that's my sacrifice to the snow gods this year.But the mountain was in an amazing condition today. Hopefully tomorrow is equally as epic. VANOC must be hating all this snow. The smurfs keep having to dig out the race courses. 

   SO MUCH SNOW:)

Second part of my day. We went to Riddy's place of work. aka Prior Ski and Snowboard factory(alot smaller than I thought it would be). Was pretty cool to see how everything gets put together. Kind of makes me wish I tried harder to get a job there.

This is how edges get put on.

Then after we wondered through the village for a Jug and wings. And saw a Jewish rapper.

He wasn't to bad.

Well thats the happenings for today :) keep checking back.

Olympics are here.

So finally first day of Olympics are upon us. First of bad news. During the mens luge training a 21 year old crashed on the last bend and died. Full article here: CNN Coverage.

Good news was I saw Noelle today was a bit weird I have to admit but definatly cool.
A bunch of events keep getting postponed due to snow (good thing for me) we had 20cm of fresh snow.

That's all for today. I leave you with the 2010 mascots oh and Pedobear which caused this: Polish-newspaper-claims-Pedobear-is-2010-Vancouver-Olympic-mascot

First Post.

So I thought I would start one of these so everyone has one place to look to see an update at least weekly. To do with skiing mainly, but also nights out on the town or if anything extra interesting happens to me... You'll find it here.

Pretty basic 19 year old complete ski addict, I love travelling ALOT. Currently located in Whistler, BC, Canada.

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Enjoy my random babbling.