Last Sunday we gathered a crew together to do our first

skiing shoot of the season.  I showed up

at Josh Bishop’s house at 7:30 am.  The

Utah crew (consisting of Jeff Kiesel, Witt Foster, Brady Perron, and Ty Barnes)

showed up there the night before, so we managed to wake them up and get going

by 7:45.  It was cloudy and rainy, but

we hoped it would be snowing at the mountain. 

We stopped and picked up Matt Walker, and then it was off to the

mountains. 

Matt sleeping it off

15 minutes down the road, the weather suddenly changed.  It began snowing hard, and cars were sliding

into each other everywhere.  Luckily we

have all wheel drive.  It was a slow

drive to the interstate, and then things got worse.  A FedEx truck jackknifed across 3 lanes (apparently because of

something Schmitty did), stranding us even further.  After 3 hours though, we finally made it to Loveland. 

Oops..

After getting our tickets, (Thanks Dustin)

we went up to get some practice runs in. 

It didn’t take long for the team to start throwing every kind of rail

switch up and spin imaginable.  Throughout our rail adventures, the snow continued to pound the resort.  The conditions were closer to December than October.  It's looking like a good ski season for Colorado.  If you can, get out there and ski. Oh... and Ian Kirkpatrick turned an old man of 23 this same day and he brought PBRs so... all in all, it was kick ass