Skiing and Snowboarding

I have been skiing for some time now although before moving to Colorado I had never skied anywhere very good. In highschool (Parma, Ohio) this meant Boston Mills and Brandywine. Later in college and a few years afterward, this meant Alpine Valley, Mt. Brighton, and one trip to Boyne Mountain (Michigan). Colorado skiing was a big change: Arapahoe Basin, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Copper Mountain, Keystone, Vail, and Winter Park. A couple of years ago I started doing a little bit of snowboarding.   I enjoy both of these activities although I'm a pretty bad snowboarder.  I really need to sign up for formal lessons if I'm going to do any more riding.  I am relieved to say that have gotten to be a much improved mogul skier.

Still no snowboarding pictures but finally, here are some pictures and movies from a ski weekend at Beaver Creek and Vail on 11 - 12 January 2003. It is not the carnage that you want to see, but I am just too good. :) I have had some spectacular wipeouts over the years that would have made great pics though.  

Movies courtesy of my videographer, Bernie and his new Canon G2. What a great camera.
• AVI 2.8 MB Skiing some powder at Vail's back bowls.
• AVI 5.5 MB Skiing the bumps on the upper part of Highline, a double black diamond, before it got really steep.
• AVI 2.5 MB Poorly skiing some bumps at Beaver Creek.
  
  Glenn cam
• MOV 11.8 MB Doing two things at once - neither of them well.
  
  Bernie taken with my Nikon 995.
• MOV 11.8 MB Could not have been better had I scripted it.
• MOV 10.8 MB Treeskiing a glade at Beaver Creek.

2048x1536 (mine) or 2272x1704 (Bernie's) JPEGs. I purposely left these full size so they can be viewed full screen, but they are huge.
• View from Vail's back bowls
• Mediocre picture of a small part of the famous back bowls
• A narrow, powdery bump run That's me.
• Another bump run That's me.
• A small part of Beaver Creek Guess who.