Realizing a dream that started when I was 12 years old. Skiing on waves, why not?

And the Winner is....

And the winner...

..will be announced tomorrow. [anticlimax] Sorry folks, a 12 hour drive from Wyoming back to California hindered any internettings for the day. So stay tuned tomorrow for the drawing. Thanks for all those that entered.

In the mean-time enjoy this kitty-shred.

So yes, Powder magazine wanted some 'Vote for Me!' videos. Although I'm no way in the running for a position on the poll, I still like making funny videos. So here ya go.

Free-Shit Friday!

Round 2.

Okay, so we begin again. This time I provide you with entertainment, then you use your crusty noggin to think for a second. You see what ya need to do is watch the shr-edit below and tell me what three states and one country (outside of the U.S) that Elyse is skiing in in her film.



If you correctly answer the geographic questionnaire then you are entered to win this week's prize: A Salomon Tanker 130L Travel Bag. Elyse skis like a tanker with jet fuel in its engines so the inspiration for the give-away was natural. Like last week, the entrants into the contest (those who answered the question correctly in the comments section below) will all go into a final drawing to determine the winner.

Contest lasts one week. Go!

Yeah they're a sponsor and no I don't use this platform sling, but honestly the quality of The Levitation Project's new website is incredible. Super beautiful, insane photos, sick vids. Truthfully it's one of the best ski/snowboard sites in the entire business. Check it out, you'll be pleased.

Although many explorers, adventurers and professional athletes would like to tout their adventures as grandiose dreams, epic tribulations and great triumphs, we all know mediocrity generally plagues an average amount of missions. This past weekend in Tahoe helped proved the fact that, like people, 49% of adventures are below average.

This particular median escapade started when JT Holmes, Jason Abraham, Elyse Saugstad and I decided to skip out on the White Ribbon of Death on Red Dog at Squaw Valley for one day and mish it down to Carson Pass for a backcountry outing.



Our planned destination. Round Top peak.



My ambitious mind had planned to tackle the Crescent Moon couloir (looker's right chute) in low-tide gnar conditions ala Jeremy Jones.
My eyes upon first arrival then said, "Well low-tide can't even begin to explain how dry that couloir is". Mediocrity was inching its way closer.

Looker's right couloir looking rockier than Tiger Wood's marriage.


So immediately our grandiose dreams were vanquished. But we just got up at 6:00 am, drove an hour and a half and didn't want to ski another day on the W.R.O.D. at Squaw. So we skinned on.

"We're not turning around. We're going that way!"



"We found the low-tide gnar!"



The gnarliest of the gnar. Sketchy-log creek-crossing on loose skins and Alpine Trekkers (aka Alpine Day Wreckers).



Skinning up the mediocre.



Average.




And then the trip got so average that photographerJason Abraham didn't even take his camera out. So there was a total of zero pictures of skiing. Yup. Count that. Zero. We skied right back down our skin track on a solid 20 degree pitch. Whoopee.


So yes, this outing was dramatically anti-climactic. So to leave you all with at least something interesting. Here's a picture of the super-duper famous JT "Birdman" Holmes post-porty-a-potty-poo. It was such an important moment that I had to take a picture of another person taking a picture of JT's post-dump exit. It smelled bad and was his second dump of three that day. Well, I guess that's above average.

...and the winner is!

Don't forget to tune in next friday for the second edition of Free-Shit Friday. Thanks for playing y'all.