Virne: Finnish Freeride Team

VIRNE from Matti Mottonen on Vimeo.

Pretty legit half length movie, and some telewhacking in it too! I like to think I'm relatedd to these guys, being scandinavian and all. Enjoy

Powerwhores "TeleVision" review

So I just got back from watching the Logan UT showing of Powderwhore productions "Television." Its low-budget but you won't leave dissatisfied at all. Overall a great flick and definitely one of their best performances yet. The cheesy theme worked quite well through the whole thing, it certainly embodies the tele scene.

The skiing was definitely pushed to a bit higher level but I'm still a little disappointed that telemarking hasn't caught up to alpine skiing in technical free-ride style descents. That's not really Powderwhore's fault by any means. They did an excellent job of capturing the progression of our sport. Its an exciting time, just watch a 5 year old film and tell me we haven't gotten better. It finally had some footage of free-healers venturing onto some steeper Alaskan terrain with spines etc. The terrain choice was incredible, I was really impressed with what was skid. I think that some of the lines in this flick would make other routes in say.. TGR look rather small. The scene would pan out and show the entire mtn in comparison the skiers and leaving me amazed that they climbed the damn thing, not once, but all day long as shown by the other tracks. I was bummed to see them billygoating around instead of hauling over them like Jeremy Nobis in TGR's movies though. Props to the athletes who tried, it was definitly an eye opener to what it would be like to make tele turns down Alaskan spines. Still an awesome film and if you haven't seen it yet it's worth buying or finding a showing near you.

Azadi Ski Documentary Clip

McMurdo Edit from Anthony Bonello on Vimeo.

This is a really cool clip, I love the music this is set to, it really plays to the skiing rather than adding another dimension. The story behind the documentary is pretty sweet as well o check it out

Almost winter

Waterskiing is coming to an end, I made it out twice last week, water temps were in the upper 50's, you know what that means...

Almost Better

While making some "Fall Turns" I managed to ?exaserbate? a previous existing condition known as runners knee, into patellar tendonitis. After 3 weeks of prescribed laziness and a bit of self prescribed rehab I ventured out for a run today and was pleasantly surprised with zero pain, hopefully that means I'm on the way to a full recovery in time for ski season.

I'm trying to go back and post stuff in chronological order, so stay tuned for more and keep an eye on the archives becasue the new "old" posts won't show up at the top of the page...

Fall turns

Got out for some early season storms mid September and skid a popular hit up Garnet Canyon in GTNP for some Fall powder. Teewinot looked really good this morning with the new snow

Cave Couloir in all her glory, look close, can you see tracks?

Celebratory sandwich from Dornan's :) and a good end to a great day!