Devo Day 7 - Amazing day
Posted by ^^Ivan^^ on Thursday, January 28, 2010
Under: DEVO Team weekly news
Last Saturday was just an amazing day. Something magically was in the air and it was more than the snow that fell a good part of the day.
We decided to rock the back bowls for most of the day but started with an inspection run and talk in the terrain park. The plan was to return at the end of the day and hit the jumps and boxes, of course we did. From there we made a cool fast run in to Caddy's which with it's fresh snow made for a very nice natural half pipe with some occasional powder to push through.
After Caddy's we headed up Avanti chair and straight down Faro Glade into Game Creek. Some nice powder in the tree's, amazing actually. Not to waste any time, we dropped into Sundown bowl via Ricky's Ridge. Now, word of warning! Whilst the powder and fresh snow was really tempting, just as soon as we got in, I shot over a downed log, narrowly getting by with the move but with Will right behind me, he caught the log and lost one ski. The team was quick to help out and get his gear together and rock down the bowl again. We were moving pretty fast and had a couple of spills after that but nothing to slow us down to much. Fall, loose ski, recover move on. Wash, rinse, repeat...
Once in the back we found our lines in Dragons Teeth (dropping the cliff lines again), and then off to Rasputin's Revenge, dropping the cornice and it was about half way down where Lauren found a nice rock drop kicker that she hit with a passion. It was pretty impressive since it was the first rock she had dropped and it was her first day back after a nice time in Puerto Rico. Nice job Lauren!
Caught by surprise, time had flown by... We had to make a run back to the chair 6 base area, up to the terrain park and hit the half pipe, jump lines and slid a few boxes.
Some days are like that, they are just fun, fly by and we really managed to get around the mountain. Great job everyone and get ready for some more!
Lessons learned - Remember how we act in the terrain park. Respect get's respect and we all know what that means. Call your lines, don't snake the other riders, be safe first. Also, even if we have gotten some great snow in the last days / week, there are hidden obstacles that we can hit or get caught on. Ride safe, know before you go...
See you on Saturday and Sunday for more powder shredding, terrain park air and carving on the groomers! I just love snow!!!
Check out the blog for other posts on my Silverton Mountain trip, think snow!
We decided to rock the back bowls for most of the day but started with an inspection run and talk in the terrain park. The plan was to return at the end of the day and hit the jumps and boxes, of course we did. From there we made a cool fast run in to Caddy's which with it's fresh snow made for a very nice natural half pipe with some occasional powder to push through.
After Caddy's we headed up Avanti chair and straight down Faro Glade into Game Creek. Some nice powder in the tree's, amazing actually. Not to waste any time, we dropped into Sundown bowl via Ricky's Ridge. Now, word of warning! Whilst the powder and fresh snow was really tempting, just as soon as we got in, I shot over a downed log, narrowly getting by with the move but with Will right behind me, he caught the log and lost one ski. The team was quick to help out and get his gear together and rock down the bowl again. We were moving pretty fast and had a couple of spills after that but nothing to slow us down to much. Fall, loose ski, recover move on. Wash, rinse, repeat...
Once in the back we found our lines in Dragons Teeth (dropping the cliff lines again), and then off to Rasputin's Revenge, dropping the cornice and it was about half way down where Lauren found a nice rock drop kicker that she hit with a passion. It was pretty impressive since it was the first rock she had dropped and it was her first day back after a nice time in Puerto Rico. Nice job Lauren!
Caught by surprise, time had flown by... We had to make a run back to the chair 6 base area, up to the terrain park and hit the half pipe, jump lines and slid a few boxes.
Some days are like that, they are just fun, fly by and we really managed to get around the mountain. Great job everyone and get ready for some more!
Lessons learned - Remember how we act in the terrain park. Respect get's respect and we all know what that means. Call your lines, don't snake the other riders, be safe first. Also, even if we have gotten some great snow in the last days / week, there are hidden obstacles that we can hit or get caught on. Ride safe, know before you go...
See you on Saturday and Sunday for more powder shredding, terrain park air and carving on the groomers! I just love snow!!!
Check out the blog for other posts on my Silverton Mountain trip, think snow!