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by Bill Messick

I wasn’t planning on skiing today but I woke up to a foot of powder in my driveway and the next thing I knew I was on my way up the mountain. Strange thing is there was more powder in the valley than there was on the mountain at Sundance! There was about 4-6 inches when I got to the top of the lift, still it was good stuff. I did get a little video today and took a few min to cut it into a music video using the music of Courtesy Blush with their song “Sun Divider”.

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by Bill Messick

Today Jason and I took Bubby out of school so he could ditch class in the powder, well It didn’t start off that way! We get up to leave about 11:30 am and it is 57 degrees outside and sunny, that can’t be good on the snow! We get up there and get a few runs in and it starts to snow and it snowed heavy leaving the nicest powder you could ask for all over a mountain with hardly anyone skiing it. Yea we got to play in the fresh stuff today, not much about 3-6 inches but fresh right out of the snow factory in the sky. Bubby did pretty good today even in the powder that he is so scared of!

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Today was hot! It was about 47 degrees on the top today, that is snow melting hot! So me and Jason took a trip up to Sundance for a few hours and got burnt on the mountain. I did get a few photos and about 2 min worth of video, in the video someone is hurt and a girl makes her jump.

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by Bill Messick

You could say Jason has taken his falls on the narrows in the Pipeline up at Sundance, in fact one day he knocked himself out there. Every time we ski through the Pipeline he gets to the same spot and has a pretty nasty fall. Last week he twisted his knee in this ominous place and today just like every time down he fell in the same spot! So we took one more hit down Bishops Bowl taking a moment for him to rest on the catwalk on the edge of the Pipeline before dropping into his own hell run. Well I got him to slow things down and take his time getting to the squeeze spot, as he hit it you can see in the video he just works his way past the bad spot in his mind and finish the run without a single fall!

Check out the video and see for yourself, don’t miss the cool pics from this day.

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by Bill Messick

To get to Marmott Gulch you have to take off your skis and climb for about 10 min up the hill on your right as you get off Ray’s Lift at the summit. They have this marked as a Black Diamond but I would class it closer to a double black. It is a tight fast drop through a very steep and narrow gully.

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by Bill Messick

You don’t get to see me skiing much, I’m usually behind the camera but Jason has got good enough to ski with his camera and posted this video on his YouTube account.

Posted by Bill messick

Control speed and stop when skiing by controlling the size of your wedge, or the position in which the tips of your skis come together. Learn how in this free beginner skiing lesson on video.

Posted by Bill Messick

This lesson is an introduction to carving for intermediate skiers.

It should help people that have not discovered the edge yet to find this feeling. The main goal at this stage is to get the student NOT to turn his feet and slide but carve. To achieve this i am using more inside ski lead and hip counter than necessary as this makes the rolling of the knees easier. Once the student realizes that the skis turn all by themselves these things are reduced to the amount necessary. Instead of getting the student to edge by inclination – “leaning in” i stress the fundamental basic position. As i want to teach a technique which is consistent and works on the blues in the same way as on the black runs.