Web Design
I’ve worked as a web developer for quite sometime. In recent years I’ve considered myself more of a web contractor. These days it takes a number of specialized skills to develop a truly professional company website. As such I’ve found myself bringing together subcontractors as well as building complete sites from scratch. Many people are…
Read MoreSaratoga Hot Springs
The water here is very hot, at one end too hot to enter. We sat in the hot water for a few minutes then went over to sit in the North Platt River.
Read MoreDay One: Salida to Saratogo, WY
263 miles; five hours in the saddle; warm and dry with very little wind; CO hwys 9, 14 and 123, WY hwys 230 and 130. At the moment we’re sitting in our “suite” at the Sand and Sage Motel. We were upgraded without our knowledge from an double bed room to a queen size bed…
Read MoreCheck Our Garden Just Before We Leave
Hopefully the nice folks staying at our house will remember to turn on the water ;). I took these shots to compare how much it will grow while we’re gone. We’re all packed up reduced to the available space on GeeGee!
Read MoreWaiting to be loaded
Here she is, GeeGee. We call her this because when we first saw her we kept saying, “Gee, Gee.” Today has been a wirl wind of preparation. Cleaning, packing, unpacking, repacking trying to get down to as minimal bulk as possible. Everything going into the “trunk” is stuff we do not need immediate access to.…
Read MoreImage of Photo and Caption
Cool picture of me appeared in The Mountain Mail yesterday. The powder has been awesome at Monarch. Eric Ramsey has been taking pictures and I’m very happy to go along. This one ended up on 9 News and in the local paper. I think he likes how I can ski right at him without hitting…
Read MoreI'm In An Article!
Last week I was asked to teach a lesson for marketing purposes. Our marketing director had arranged the lesson for a writer that writes for the Rocky Mountain News. Here is a link to the article as it appeard in an online journal called Real Vail. Click here. I really enjoyed meeting Luis and Patrina.…
Read MoreNew Terminology
I had a returning student (Steven Owen) a few days ago that asked me to help him find an “imperceptible trigger.” I thought that was so cool. I hope to use these words in future lessons. I think what he was seeing was the smoothness of good skiers and wants to emulate how good they…
Read MoreBig Clinic Today
I led a clinic today with about a dozen other instructors. The focus was on the PSIA milestone called basic parallel turn. Just in case you don’t know the milestones, they are wedge, wedge cristi, basic parallel turn, and dynamic paralell turn. It was very obvious to me that we can focus on a specific…
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