Archive for November 7th, 2008

Ski Day #2 - Snowbird’s First Day

Friday, November 7th, 2008

As reported earlier, for the thousands of fans that cannot start a day without a visit to AdamFehr.com, Snowbird opened today!  November 7th marks the second earliest opening in Snowbird’s history.  Pretty impressive.  This week’s massive storm left more than enough snow for the resort to open.  Gad, Mid-Gad, and even the Tram were running, allowing a ton of skiers and boarders to enjoy some early-season turns.

Charli, Mike Kisow, Bill Kisow, and I couldn’t resist the temptation to get back on the slopes.  The snow was great througout the morning.  Eventually the weather warmed up enough to make skiing a little too much work on my out-of-shape legs.

Not too many pictures or videos from today.  Check out a picture I got of Charli ripping Regulator Johnson on her new G3 El Hombre’s and Hammerhead tele bindings.  Not the best-timed photo, but you get the idea.

Charli teleing the bird

Charli teleing the bird

08-09 Ski Days: 2

Preseason Deer Valley: 1
Snowbird: 1

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Ski Day #1 - Poaching Deer Valley

Friday, November 7th, 2008

The Wasatch Front was hit with a full-on, Lake Effect, winter storm early this week.  Alta and Snowbird received almost 4 feet of snow.  Just enough to allow Snowbird to open this Friday.

Charli and I jumped the gun and set out for some backcountry touring.  We grabbed our skis, skins, and dogs and made our way up to Guardsman Pass.  We parked just above Empire Lodge and started skinning our way uphill towards Empire Pass.  After climbing for an hour and a half, Charli, Mogul, Hobbes, Tracker, and I found some waist-deep (head deep for the dogs) powder turns down through a creek bed.  The coverage was pretty minimal, probably not the best choice for a first day of the season warmup run.

Awesome first day.  A respectable 3:1 face-shot to core-shot ratio.  Check out my first helmet cam footage of the season:


Preseason Helmet Cam Attempt from fatbearfehr on Vimeo.

08-09 Ski Days: 1

Preseason Deer Valley: 1

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Go Utes!

Friday, November 7th, 2008
tah wide receiver Freddie Brown (88) scores the game winning touchdown against TCU during the fourth quarter in the NCAA college football game Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008, in Salt Lake City. Utah defeated TCU 13-10. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Scott Sommerdorf)
tah wide receiver Freddie Brown (88) scores the game winning touchdown against TCU during the fourth quarter in the NCAA college football game Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008, in Salt Lake City. Utah defeated TCU 13-10. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Scott Sommerdorf)

Charli, Bill, Derrick, and I were lucky enough to get tickets (or a police escort into the game) for the Utah v. TCU game Thursday night.  It was one of the best endings to a game I have ever seen.  Go Utes!

We rushed the field at the end of the game.  I know we were ranked higher, but Vegas had us as the underdogs, and we just love to rush the field at Rice-Eccles Stadium.

Four years ago, Derrick broke his ankle jumping onto the field following our upset victory over Cal.  I had to give him a piggy-back-ride for ten blocks so he could catch a ride to the hospital.  Thursday night he avenged his injury by successfully rushing the field without injury.

A victory at SDSU and another win over BYU and we can rush the field for a third time this season!  Then we’ll go to a BCS game and rush that field too!  Go Utes!

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New PhotoBucket Album: Gainesville

Friday, November 7th, 2008

A month overdue, but I finally uploaded some new pictures to my PhotoBucket page.  Check out the new album, “Gainesville.”

It was about a month ago that Charli and I flew to Tampa, borrowed her parent’s camper and F-350 Super Crew Extended Bed Truck, and drove to Gainesville.  We camped in a Wal Mart parking lot for three nights, drank a lot, ate a lot of Hare Krishna food, and watched the Gators destroy the LSU Tigers as an early birthday present from Charli.

Great trip.  The Swamp is amazing!  92,000 die hard fans that understand the game of football.  It was amazing to see.  Check out some of my pictures: http://s256.photobucket.com/albums/hh182/fatbearfehr/Gainesville/

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