Catching Big Air of Whale's Tail - Breckenridge

A wonderful day of spring powder at Breckenridge. Making turns in Cucumber Bowl off the T-Bar then hucking the cornice off Whale's Tail between Peak 7 and Peak 8.

Competition amoung Brothers

Thanksgiving weekend brought me four young lads from Arkansas. They wanted to ski and mom signed 'em up for four days of lessons. Nick, Blake, Nate, and Brad - brothers they are - showed up with plenty of enthusiasm. All are fairly athletic with a background in Tae Kwon Do. We started off at Mt. Bueler on the magic carpet. Once they picked up the fundamentals, off we went to Explore Peak 8 and Peak 9!



It was really fun to watch the competition between the brothers - both in the need for speed and on technique. As we progressed in our learning adventure, the first teen would 'get it' and start showing off for the others! All in good fun. Overall, a very good start to the ski season!

Peanut Butter

Rule number three in my class. IF anyone falls down, we yell, "PEANUT BUTTER" and stop, help that person get back on their feet and ski on! Snow can be sticky like peanut butter...

More Bombers Week 6

Skiing with these kids has been such fun - can you see that HUGE smile on the cameraman???

Bombers Week 6

Can you believe this weather? Sunny and warm - not a cloud in sight. We have ramped up the pace for bombers this week with some hard core black runs on Mustang and Appaloosa on the south side of Peak 10. We also hit the NASTAR race course with several kids winning silver and gold medals. The day finished off exploring terrain off 6 chair.



Having Fun in the Sun!

Bombers Week 4

Another beautiful day on the slopes. I have many many pictures but it has been a crazy busy week at my other gig, so I am only including two pictures of the group clowning around. I Will try and get the sideshow put together soon.

During this stage in our skiing adventure, we starting adding some flexing and extending moves to our technique. We want to extend, or get TALL at the start of our turns, and flex, or get a little smaller in the bottom of the turn to absorb the pressure. The amount of our movement will depend on speed and terrain.

More Bombers Week 3 Pictures

Too much fun, that's all I can say:

Bomber Week 3 Pow Pow Day

A Powder Day! Talk about fun fun fun! We had fresh snow to explore. We continued combining the lessons learned from the first two weeks and applying the techniques in new and exciting terrain. Don't you just love the new snow on the trees?




We had the pleasure of observing the Breck Ski Patrol Avalanche dogs in action:



More fun in the Snow:

Bombers Week 2

Another wonderful day last Saturday at Breckenridge! We explored new terrain on Peak 9 in the morning while continuing to practice our body movements. We added an understanding of 'tipping' our skis, primarily using our legs and ski boots to tip the skis on edge. We further explored differing amounts of tipping and what that does to our turns: small, smedium, medium, and large!

Parker in RippARoo Forrest

Another gorgeous ski day at Breckenridge, Colorado. Sunny and warm, light winds, good friends. This is young master Parker, age 8, tearing it up on Peak 9.

Specatular Ski Day at Breckenridge

It doesn't get much better then this: A spectacular day at Breckenridge! Bluebird Skies, warm temps, lite winds, no crowds, fantastic snow! Had to pause and do the sweeping view from the Whale Tail saddle between Peak 7 and Peak 8 - about 12,650 feet. The view pans west over Copper Mountain, Mt. Of the Holy Cross, Vail Pass, and Gore Range, past Peak 7 to overlooking Breckenridge, Keystone, and the continental Divide to the east.

How truly blessed I am to live and experience sights such as this. I spent the morning skiing the T-Bar to Snow Alley to Imperial Chair to Whale's Tail to Peak 7 Y chutes loop.

Bombers Week 1

What a surprise! A sunny day to kick off 2009 bombers at Breckenridge. I have a talented crew of 6-8 year old awesome kids. Week one had the usual hiccups in organization and getting kids into the correct class by ability, age, enthusiasm, etc, but my class did great in going with the flow. After all, that's what skiing is all about.

Overall - a FUN day!



Clip 2

Breckenridge Ski Day Saturday

A lovely snowy day on the slopes. About 4-5" fell during the morning while we were there. Took a few laps on six chair with nice snow but low visibility and, honestly, a little dust on crust - that is, the snow underneath is very thin and hard packed. Received a few dings on the skis. Also did laps the valley loop - Top of super connect to Boneyard, up E chair, down Peerless or Volunteer, back up the Super Connect chair. I find this path avoids the crowds as best as possible on a busy Saturday.