Montana the Great

Next stop for me was good old Montana. This trip turned out to be one of the greatest trips I have possible had in my skiing career. I met up with my buddies Axel Peterson, Randy Evans to start filming for BombSnow magazine webisode series. We started out are trip in Cooke City, MT. It was my first time there and I have always seen it in movies and I have always wanted to get out there but just never had the chance. My mind was blown on how special cooke city was. There is one bar, two motels, a gas station and thats it. A small town but the backcountry access was out of this world. Endless spins, pillows, jump spots all with in 2-3 miles from the town. A short snowmobile ride to some of the best train I have ever seen. This trip for me changed my whole perspective on what I wanted to do as a skier. Once a avid pipe skier, now a big line, pow shredding, jump hitting animal. In what we do as skier's there is always a lot of pressure on us to do are best at what we do but we also need to remember why we got into the sport in the first place. That was to have "FUN." Getting this eye opening opportunity to go ski in the backcountry for two weeks really changed my mind set as a skier. I think people don't appreciate backcountry skiing as much because they don't understand how hard it truly is. If you get one to two shots in one day in the backcountry your hyped. In comparison to the park or pipe you could make a full 2-3 minute edit in one day. That's why I really commend people that go out in the backcountry and work there butts off all season to get the shots they want. I am so happy for this opportunity to continue to film with Axel Peterson and the Bridgerbrigade boys as well as to continue to film with BombSnow magazine for their webisode series. Here is the edit we created as well as some photos from the trip. Thanks for reading until next time.


Bomb Snow TV Episode 3: "Oro y Plata"

Link: http://bombsnow.com/archives/bomb-snow-tv-episode-3-oro-y-plata

My sick house for 2 weeks

Buffalo 

Not a bad sight to look out on

Boosting a big old 7 

Randy Evens and me stoked on our amazing day

Cory and Colter Chronicles ep. 4

One of my favorite people to ski with his name is Cory Jackson he is the man! Super stoked on filming this edit with him! Keep you posted more edits to come! Enjoy

http://www.newschoolers.com/membervideo/609304.0/An-Afternoon-at-Park-City-Pt--4?s=196720&t=6&o=8

Home town Sun Valley Idaho Park Opens

Go to Sun Valley, Id it's the sickest place ever! The SPT and Sun Valley train parks have been straight killing it this season! Little edit from Ben Parker on the opening day. Check it out! Big Ups too all those guys for making everything so perfect!

http://vimeo.com/57011904

U.S. Grand Prix Park City 2013

Funny story so even though I said I was going to take a step back from competing this year and just film. I got a last minute invite to compete in the U.S. Grad Prix at Park City Mountain Resort. Ben Verge my old ski coach and very close friend was here coaching for the US Freesking Team and asked me if I would like to do it? I was thinking it over and realized that I had only had skied pipe for three days this whole season. So I said what the heck sure ill do it and ended up skiing super well for how much I had trained. It also was amazing seeing all my old friends that I had not seen for a long time. I fell my first run but end up being able to put together my second run and rounded out top 20 so I was super pumped! Here are a couple photos of the day 1/31/13.

Good old PC

The swells where double over head today!

Crash and Bail

So ended up braking Two ribs early in January but rehabbed for about three weeks and was back in no time! Here is the little edit leading up to the crash at the end. Enjoy

http://www.newschoolers.com/membervideo/587809.0/5-Laps-with-Colter-Brehmer?s=196720&t=6&o=8

New season New goals

© Tal Roberts Photography

Well, this season for me started off with a totally new mind set. I worked my butt of this summer Mtn biking, hiking, working out and as well as my favorite thing to do in the summer, which is skateboarding. So, going into this season I felt strong and confident. Last season I spent a lot of time competing in both halfpipe and slopestyle on the whole tour, which was the Dew Tour, The North Face Open series, WSI and so on. Within competing and traveling from spot to spot I lost what I truly loved about skiing, which was the actual just skiing part. Competing is a mind game and I defiantly got too inside my head when I competed last season, which in favor made me not ski to my full potential. So this 2013-2014 season I decided to take a step back from competing and do what I truly wanted to do, which was just skiing and filming. The thing with me though is I didn't want to just film one aspect of skiing I want to film everything whether that be urban, big mtn lines, park, backcountry and jumps I wanted to do it all. I see so many kids in our sport of freestyle skiing that could have the potential to be a really good all around skier but they choose to just ski one discipline. Which is totally fine but in my mind I just find it way more appealing to see someone ski it all people like Dunken Adams, Parker White, Chris Logan those are the kind of skiers who are raising the bar of skiing in my mind.  So just have fun with skiing and if you are doing progressive and cool stuff people are going to notice. So just go out there and SENDERRRRR.....