Avy Candy

Too tired to write, 25 hrs of driving 1200 miles 3 resorts, 3 days. A 3 resort fresh snowfall total of 97". Closed roads, driving through fresh slide debris on the road. Free ski passes. Kicking off avalanches. And the Colts are in the Superbowl.

It's gettin Deep!

So I'm beginning to think my friend Scott has sold his sole to the devil for some keen snow sense.

I mean it's stacking up in Silverton just in time for our trip. I just hope the pass doesn't close. It's also a lot of snow too quick, but they probably bomb. How many ways can the weather service say say full on snow puke?

I have acquired full on surfboards for the weekend. These are luxury powder splitting machinery. 120mm at the waste ought to be enough?

73%

I did a quick online test and found out that I'm 73% Ninja. I scored low on the "invisibility" scale (which I don't agree with) and Swords. I think I'm a solid 80 with the invisibility up where it should be.

Sweet Jesus

It's like the Jet Stream and Pacific Moisture want to push the Southern Rockies back to the primal subduction zone from whence they came!

Sexiest Thing I ever Saw

The above forecast is for Silverton Mountain. Let me quickly take you through the snow totals.

Worst Case - 36" of snow through Friday. Thats 3', one yard, one hobbit height. or roughly the ground to the top of your bicycle seat.

Best Case - 58" of snow through Friday. Thats 4'10", 1.5 meters, higher than the light switch on your wall, or a foot and a half above your door handle.

Whys is this so sexy. Me and the high speed snow removal crew have a Silverton reservation for Friday. I think it is going to be Epicgasmic. Me and the crew have been glued to NOAA.GOV and SKIFORECAST for 3 months waiting for it to all come together. My friends Uler the snow god is pissed and he's bringing it this week to the San Juans. The guides say expect 4 runs, and 10,000 vertical. The crew I usually ski with can do 20, 000 vert at Vail in a day. Were going for the record. Will report.

They grow up so quick

I recently got a hold of the puppy picks of my favorite dog. From this:

To this:

I know just try to contain the collective sighs.

Coaching BS

From time to time I have enlisted the services of a coach and or paid for a general season outline. I have had great success with a coach and a pathetic existence as a bike racer with a coach. All have been professional. meaning they fulfilled their end of the deal. They provided training plans and general season guidance. So in that sense I don't mean to coach bash, because their are some really good coaches out their and I'm sure they know their poop backwards and forwards. However, I think it takes the right mix of coach and athlete, and frankly a fast responding athlete for it all to work. I also think most of the "mail-order" coaches need a somewhat naive or a less than common sense rules athlete to see good results. Just from my experience telling me to get a good night sleep before the race,and eat a good meal just wasn't the keen insight I was looking for. Also I found coaches are really good at telling you your power numbers. You did x watts for x minutes. Thanks my free software already told me that. Or you did x watts more than in a similar interval last month. Again thanks, I knew that without looking at any numbers, but I'm still getting my butt kicked at a race. What is that power number? Thats the one I want. Or if I show you a race file, and I can pinpoint the time where the field rode away from me, why are we not simulating the events leading up to that point in training?

So I say eff-it. I'm going to ride how I feel when I feel like it. (yes I will have a general big picture in mind) I'm not going to give two-poops if I'm out of my zone 3 wattage in the base period, I might as well get used to it. The old Russian addage was to throw eggs (athletes) against the wall, and keep the ones that don't break. We'll my friends that is what a Mtn. Bike race is, and you need to be a tough egg. So I've decided this will be my best season ever. If I fry my egg so what, at least I'll know it didn't work for free.

Craigslist Bowl of Flakes

So I'm in the process of my yearly bike and gear purge, which means I got a lot on Craigslist. This is a very good tool, but it attracts the cream of the crop of nut jobs. You get people that stand you up, the dumbest questions (who cares how wide the bars are, they're bars)How many miles are on your bike, I dunno does 3000 sound good? Have you ever hit any rocks with these skis? Nope never made it off the roof rack on the way to Grandmas. It gets even better when you want to buy. People don't get back to you for a week. Last night I was on the phone telling this person, I'll give you your list price, I have the cash in my hand and I can put it in your hand tonight. They couldn't grasp the concept. I had to explain to them that they were trying to sell something and I wanted to buy it. Kooks

Skiing with Seth Morrison

So this weekend we got to ski with Seth Morrison. Who is that you ask? Well

Albeit it was 400 yards on the catpath at Vail, man he made it look easy.

The best $59 I ever spent

Me and three other went on a snow commando mission on New Years Eve. The plan was to crash another bro's condo in Avon. Upon checking the Snow report at 5 AM we were prepared to travel anywhere in the state that got the most snow. Luckily the big winner was Beaver Creek, 10 minutes from the condo, 13" in 24hrs, 18 in 48hrs. We got pretty darn close to first chair, and literally did things to powder snow that you usually have to pay internet sites to see and read about. After two months of pent up powder aggression, we were like kids with insects ripping each of the snowflakes six little legs off. The Beave was boned out by 12:30 mostly due to us. Thats when the acute powder sniffing capabilities of Scottytime became active. He was running some Voikl Kuros. You must understand these things were specifically designed by the military to deliver operatives to high mountain Afgahn caves. They skis enable Americas best to surf in through twenty feet of powder, huck in a bomb, and v-line down a 50 degree slope before the avalanche can catch you. Let me tell you the 100 billion we spend on the war on terror, finally did some good. After picking our way through some Vietnam like jungle tree sangs we came across an untouched and unopened run. Again ski patrol closure ropes are really just a reference. 3 EFFING FEET PLUS AND EASY 1000 FEET OF VERTICAL OF LUXURY EFFING POWDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We drilled 4 runs x 4 people making the hill look like a powder 8 tournament was held there, only less gay. (in a non gay way) On our last run it was officially opened it. We were having a competition to see who could enter the run the fastest. There was a four pack of gapers blocking the high speed entry, we showed no mercy. Four people at 30 MPH's were treated like high-school football players trying to stop Adrian Peterson. It wasn't pretty but we were 30 yards down hill (mostly in the air) before they could react. Ski patrol couldn't even react do to the velocity. In a nutshell the $59 ski with a friend ticket because our passes were blocked was the best money I ever spent.

Pictured above is Americas best powder destroying weaponry.