Boom Boom! Winter park (rugged) and done. Asked everyone that I could think of for a ride home and it finally paid off! I got a ride home with a rep that peddles discrete and got to see my lady for a day before she high tailed to Telluride for the big mountain comp there. Salt City has been a busy bit of business however, because in a day I am leaving for Shasta to go stare at crystals, search for alien gods and ski pow while shooting for a Powder Mag story… Here’s a couple of photos of the Discrete booth and the Ghostland Observatory show in Aspen because I’m not in the mood to write a thousand words.
February 3rd, 2010 | Category: trip log, updates | Leave a comment
Salt City -> Denver.
SIA and some meetings with some good people. I’m feeling good about this. My agent and I hit it hard for one day and got some good work done. I met some really good people and I played a little music, but after three days in a giant convention center expansive enough to get lost (and I did) I was ready for a beer and some ski time.
Denver -> Aspen.
Powder video awards to a long and fun party with some of my favorite people in the ski industry. The awards that went out went to some total badasses that deserved every one of them. Durtschi continues to be a badass, and Sean P deserved every bit of his award as well. There were a lot of awards given out, and it was good to see everyone being recognized for their work. After a long night of partying there is no better cure for grandpa’s swine flu than a good day of skiing, no matter how rugged the conditions. High speed, small jumps, long gondolas. Pack up the Magnum.
Aspen -> Winter Park
Here we are (the 4Frnt team) in winter park sitting down for the first moment in a while relaxing before the SIA on snow demo tomorrow where the entire ski industry will be getting together to test out how damn awesome our skis are. For now though, dreams.
Love,
Cody
February 1st, 2010 | Category: trip log, updates | Leave a comment
Finally! Utah got some snow! And by ’some snow’ of course I mean several feet of snow which has broken the 100 inch mark for the season, which is nice, but mostly it has broken my timidity for the season. Until just this last week I have felt like an Old Guy on his first week back after years off, but this fresh coat has brought to light my dormant confidence, and it has been a hell of a time! Confidence is a beautiful thing.. During the interim pre-snow I was building some skis over at 4frnt, which is a whole new perspective on my skiing. I feel like I have a much more social interaction with my skis now, which allows a whole new species of trust and thus new confidence.
In the morning I hop on the boring direct drive I-80 East to hit Denver Colorado for some Ski Industrialism, then on to Aspen for X-games and Powder awards, and I’ll be in touch from the road..
Love always,
Cody
January 25th, 2010 | Category: updates | Leave a comment
Hey, so I know that I just posted a minute ago, but I had an idea: in an effort to make myself post more often I am going to start putting up little reviews of gear that I use and like if for no other reason than because I like gear and I like writing. So, here is my first review, and I know what you might say; “that’s not gear, it’s food, Cody, what in the hell are you doing writing a gear review of some food?? You use it one time and it’s gone, doesn’t sound like a very good description of good gear to me…” Well I’ll tell you, you’re probably right, but I really don’t care because this is far and away the best food bar that I have ever had, and right now they are on sale, so you can get them cheaper than usual.
Here’s the thing. Somehow they guys at Probar managed to put a whole bunch of really really delicious flavor into this bar all the while putting in a bunch of whole foods and making it vegan! If you’re going for a long hike in the backcountry, or if you just can’t get away from school long enough to get a proper meal, this is just about the perfect thing to have in your pocket.
Dig it.
Love, Cody.
January 16th, 2010 | Category: updates | Leave a comment
The talk went great! I saw some of the kids there that I see skiing around Alta all the time, which was awesome, because that just might mean that I have helped them not make the same damn dumb mistakes that I got away with when I was their age… In other news the skiing in Utah has been less than amazing lately, so I’ve been doing what any good ski addict would do and making the most of very little. Alta and Snowbird have both been really fun if you have the right people to help you make it fun.. Mostly I just like to follow the Alta groms like Andrew Pollard, Grant Howard, and Leo Ahrens (if you don’t know them, you will… They’re all sick) around when it’s weather like this because it makes me realize how much fun you can have on a crappy day, and they always know where the good jumps are. I have also been taking some time to learn digital animation effects, in the hopes of making some very cool edits with myself and some friends over the next couple of months. As they come together (invariably with the addition of actual Utah snow..) I will have them up on here and wherever I can think to put them up on the internets. Thanks for reading!
Love Always.
Cody
January 16th, 2010 | Category: updates | Leave a comment
