Posts from — December 2007

Happy Holidays everybody from Grin and Barrett. 

After spending 4 quality days in Collingwood where Sasha rookied her first level 1 course at Blue Mountain and Phil spent 4 days ripping down the hills of Alpine, we’re taking 3 days off the hills to spend quality time with our family before heading to Whistler Blackcomb for a week.

We’re bringing two sets of skis each – one pair to rip and one pair to float.  Thanks to our new wireless card for the laptop, we’re planning on posting updates from Whistler with pictures and maybe a small video or two.

We’ve also discussed video taping a half dozen or so ski “tips” that we can then post on this site throughout the season. Topics such as – best way to ski powder (assuming we get some), bumps, steeps, or carve down a mountain. Any suggestions or ideas? Let us know and we’ll do our best to incorporate it into our filming.

Happy Holidays!

In the midst of a brutal start to the ski season last year, my friend Pete Partington extended an invitation to visit him in Alta, Utah in time for some New Year’s celebration.

Besides finding good snow and good company, we met Kristen Ulmer who used to star in Warren Miller movies in the mid-nineties and was a pioneer of extreme and big mountain skiing. As it turns out, there are many current and former ski heroes living in and around Park City.  

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After years of skiing on Rossignol, this year I’ve made the switch to the HEAD program.

Their latest generation of skis have gotten great reviews in Ski Canada and Skiing magazines in all categories - including all mountain, carving, park, and racing.

Recognizing that it’s still the skier who makes the ski work… here’s a note that arrived in our inbox this week from Todd Brooker :
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Welcome to our ski and travel blog. 

Skiing to us is not just a weekend passion, but a lifetime obsession. When we say skiing – we really mean anything outdoors in the winter that involves navigating some vertical with a sliding device - usually with two planks we call skis… although we subscribe to anything that allows us to carve, float, or rip down a knoll, hill, or mountain. We also both snowboard and will venture on snow blades a few times a year.

We live in Ontario but travel often to either extend or enhance our experience on snow.

We are decidely new-school in our approach and appreciation to the sport - which usually means we’d rather do than tell.

We’ll use this forum to share and recount stories of our travels to near and far away places while also providing insight, perspective and point of view on ski and coaching trends and techniques. We are also big fans of ski racing and free skiing and will be following our national teams throughout the season.

Our blog will be part commentary, part news and part photos and video. Please also be part of the conversation – comment on our articles or email us directly with your point of view, stories, pictures, and video.

The 2007 / 2008 season is off to a great start in Canada - so if the time between posts goes beyond the norm, it’s probably because we are too busy stuffing our faces with powder, steeps, or vertical.

See you on the steep side….

Phil & Sasha