Monday, January 25, 2010

Happy Australia Day!

Hey everyone.
It's actually the 25th here still in America, but hey its Aus day back home. So Happy Australia Day.

We got pretty lucky today, the clouds finally cleared up and the pipe was cut to perfection. We have mostly been riding pipe because the Rev tour is coming up in about a week and a half. I have just been working on my bag of tricks so hopefully I can put down a solid run.



Hope you all have an awesome Australia day.
JW

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Dog Sledding cont.

Here are some more photo's

My best mushing


One of the dogs burying itself in the snow


On the run. I was the passenger, Sav was driving. We hit a pretty sweet jump after this.

Sled Doggin!

So today, Jeanie, one of the Junior Team members parents were kind enough to take us dog sledding. 11 of us (Jase, Pat, Myself and the Jr Team + Coaches) went to Good Times which is a snow adventure place just a few Km's up the road.

The dogs were so cute! We were all pretty tempted to kidnap one. We went out for about an hour or so. We each took turns of driving the sled, and being in the passenger seat. The dogs followed a snowmobile driven by the guide and everyone else in the group sat on a trailer behind the Snowmobile. Our guide Brandon told me that some of the dogs were up for adoption via their website... I would love to adopt one of them if only I lived in the states. Here are some photos from the days adventures (I have more on my camera, I will put them up once I can get them off)

This is Shylah, a Red Husky. Probably the cutest, and the only female on our line.


Me and the Dogs about to go for a run.


Jeanie and Patto hooking around a corner. Yeti and Mylo are the lead dogs.


A couple of the dog's just mucking about in between runs. I think one of these was named Data and Cletus was the dark one. Cletus was always raring to go, and didn't like it all that much when we stopped.


Overall it was an epic experience that I will never forget, possibly the best day off I have ever had.
JW

Friday, January 22, 2010

Friday @ Copper

Here are a couple of photos from copper today.

This is the copper pipe at 10.30am and 12.30pm. The weather can change a lot in two hours



The boys and I got Anthony (The NSWIS Gymnastics and Acrobatics Coach) to hit a box for the first time today. Jase and Pat went through first to show him how to do a simple 50/50 on the flat box, then Anthony went for it.


Tomorrow is a day off, but I think we may be going dog sledding, which could be pretty sweet.

JW

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Got Milk...?

So this really has nothing to do with anything... unless you work at Guinness World Records. But I think it is an awesome feat and pretty damn funny.
Anyways, my team mate Pat, happens to love milk. It just so happens that in the 17 days we have been here he has consumed 7, yep 7, gallons of milk thats 26.4978825 litres!!!!!!!!!! and he has another one in the fridge waiting. He wanted to buy 3 gallons yesterday when we did the weekly shop, but we simply couldn't fit that much milk in our fridge. So keep posted to my blog as I will be including a 'Pats weekly milk intake tally' in my blog from now on.


JW

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

7.2 Km Walk

Today after riding at Breck for a few hours Pat and I decided to head down from the hill before the weather closed in. Jason stayed up the hill for a little longer... along with our house key. So when Pat and I got back to the house and realized we couldn't get in we stashed our boards and went for a walk around the foot hills to see if there were any potential places to set up for some photos. We ended up walking a total of 7.2 Kilometers (According to Google Earth) and found two or three little spots that, pending snow, could end up being pretty fun. I'm pretty knackered now, the walk took us about 2 hours not to mention we were in snowboard boots (lots of fun).

>>Here is a Google Earth screen shot of our adventure<<
[click to make it bigger]

This past weekend was ULLRfest at Breckenridge. Which is when people celebrate and pray to the Norse God of Ice and Snow... These celebrations weren't all that successful with bringing snow to Breckenridge. But hopefully Ullr keeps it in mind over thee next couple of weeks, because we really need some snow.

JW

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Monday, January 18, 2010

A Few Weeks In

I've been in Colorado for a couple of weeks now. Not much interesting has been happening but I thought I would put up a couple of pictures I've taken over the trip so far.

This is the house I stayed at in Eagle Vail with my defacto Colorado Family (Kate, Kevin... and alot of kids). I was here for the first 9 days of my trip, Its a good place to go before moving into a team house because it's like a second home.



This sign hangs on the wall at Kate and Kevin's home... it is very fitting being that their home has served as a hotel for Aussie snowboarders over the last 5 years.



Our team house in Breck that I mentioned in my last post (its not that big, there are three condos in the one building... ours is the middle one)



This little beauty is one of our two vans. We refer to her lovingly as 'The Slutty' our other ride is a similar, red/maroon van fittingly named 'The Red Rocket'



Benny A (our coach) behind the wheel of the slutty.



This last shot is just from the window at the top of our stairs. Not much interesting going on, but I thought it was a cool shot.



Well that's it for now.
JW... p.s. Happy Birthday Dad!

Monday, January 11, 2010

Colorado...

Hey Everyone.
I Started this blog during the Australian winter but didn't really post much (or at all). So here's to a fresh start...

I got into the states on the 27th of December and spent a week in Vail with my defacto family and friends. I got to ride a couple of days at Beaver Creek and Vail whilst in Eagle County. Right now I am living in Breckenridge with the NSWIS / Australian development team with Pat Davis Mehan, Jason Maxfield and our coach Benny A.

Pat, Jase and I are living in a cushy little 3 bedroom condo just a few kilometers from the hill and the town of Breck (Benny is in a condo just down the road). Our condo is part of the Highland Greens development which means we are very spoiled with a courtesy bus which picks us up at our front door and drops us at The gondola or Peak 9 and brings us home in the afternoon.

Here are a few photos of the trip so far. I don't have a camera cord yet so I just stole a couple from Pat's camera. I will aim to put up at least one blog a week aswell as whenever something exciting happens so keep posted. Some riding photos should be up by the end of the week.

Pat and Myself getting some sun in our backyard on our day off.

Killing time in the Main Lodge at Copper Mountain after a day of riding and lots of cheap Chinese food.

Peace
JW