Public Service Announcement

Found this posting on one of the boards today and thought I'd pass it along:

Disabled Sports USA Far West, located at Alpine Meadows Resort, is looking for volunteers to help teach people with disabilities learn how to downhill ski and snowboard. You must be a strong intermediate skier/boarder (or above) and have a desire to share the “mountain experience” with our students. Mandatory training is provided. Lift tickets are provided on your volunteer day. Call Vanessa at 530•581•4161 x203 for more information or visit
http://www.dsusafw.org/Wvolapp.pdf to view, download and print a volunteer application. Thanks!

Those of you looking for a place to teach your adaptive knowledge might find this good.

Gaper Day 2008

Looks like the full trailer is up for Gaper Day 2008.   Go check it out, well worth the laugh, even if the first part is a little confusing.

Gaper Day 2008, Whistler Blackcomb from Reed on Vimeo.

Helmet Review

Looks like Skiing magazine has put up their 2008-2009 helmet review. Check out the list, it's not very inclusive (I'd like to see some of the other models, but oh well).

Twilight Seasons

Looks like it's twilight season on the spring and summer activities. My cycling habit has slowly backed down to an almost non-existent level. I still plan on at least two more 100 mile rides this season. I feel that after a season of over 1500 miles logged on my road bicycle alone, I've achieved much more than what I had set out to do.

As it gets dark earlier now, I've started spending more time in the gym. While I can certainly cycle at night, it's not nearly as fun, and the chance of accidents goes up tremendously. Accidents with cars have a much lower survival rate I feel. The gym routine is getting to be pretty standard, it's my usual pre-season leg wake up routine:

Core Work out:

• Prone Bridges
• Lateral Bridges
• Balance Ball push ups
• Balance Ball un-assisted standing
• Static Lateral pull downs
• Static Leg press
• Russian half squat
• Single leg bench dips
• Assorted bicep and chest movements

The single leg bench dips seem to get the most giggles, followed right behind by the balance ball standing routine.

The Power of the Internet

Like most people, I have momentary lapses of productivity at work, which is to say I avoid doing work for times. Thankfully I have the internet to help save this time from being completely lost. One google search with the words "ski movie music" and I've found www.skimoviemusic.com with complete soundtrack listings for several years of movies. Not bad.

New google search for 2008 trailers, and I find skifilmreviews.com who seem to be maintaining a great list of films so far for the 2008-2009 season.

Nice job folks, I'm a much happier skier now, and significantly less productive!

August Rush

It's that time again, trailers and teaser trailers are starting to pop up all over the web for the 2008-2009 season. While it's hard to think of snow in early to mid-August time frame, these videos certainly do a lot for getting myself psyched up.

Here's Matchstick Production's Claim (better resolution version at skimovie.com). Very exciting, and one of the best/most-fitting musical scores ever.

Jackson

SkiPressWorld is reporting that the cables for the "Big One" at Jackson Hole are now in the process of being set up. The opening is expected to be this December, and if all continues as planned it looks like that will happen.

This should help make any returning trip to Jackson Hole that much more exciting. Anyone have pictures? Would love to see the new clocktower frame.