End of the Year Party

Hello Team,

We will be having our end of the year banquet on Tuesday May 19th. It will be at the Timpanogos Storytelling Park up Provo Canyon at 5:00. It's a little bit late this year, but it will be worth the wait, I think. This may also change depending on one thing. So get it on your calendar for now. I will send out more info in a few days.

En Route Back Home

Here's the latest from Nimbus Independent. All the usual heroes plus one of our friendly neighborhood Nymans. Blake Nyman that is. He's got some great shots in here, which is very good to see.


Go to Nimbus Independent for more videos.

JOSS Videos

For those that don't know, the Jon Olsson Super Session contest is probably the coolest contest ever. Teams from all over the world go to Sweden for two weeks to jump stuff and look cool in front of the camera. The team with the best shots and cinematography compiled and edited at the end of the trip, wins. I'm way late getting this on here, but that doesn't make it any less radical.

Team Norway 1st (Andreas Hatveit & PK Hunder)


Team Europe 2nd (Henrik Harlaut & Laurent Favre)


Team Canada (TJ Schiller & Ian Cosco) - 3rd


Team America (Simon Dumont & Tom Wallisch) - 4th Warning: Biggie Smalls is a gangsta, he also helps out Team America with their video because that's what skiers are now, gangsta, or as we like to call them Gayskers. Being a gangsta, he sings about gangsta stuff, so you may want to turn the sound down if you're not gangsta. It's my favorite one though so it's gotta go on here. American's kick butt.



Team Sweden (Jon Olsson & Jacob Webster) - 5th


Team USA #2 and Team Down Under were there too, but I can't embed their videos.

Timpanogos Slain

I don't want this to turn into Tyson's Blog, but I thought I needed to share some pictures of us skiing Timpanogos. Me and three of my friends hiked up from Aspen Grove and skied the front side of Timpanogos on Mon. the 13th. Something every skier in Utah Valley dreams of doing right? It definitely is what dreams are made of, one of the coolest things I've ever done! The skin up wasn't too bad and the snow was stable so avalanche danger was very low. It took about 4.5 hours to get to the saddle (check picture)
This kind of shows our line, I forgot to take a picture from the bottom, so this is the best I could find online. The first couple of turns were crusty, but then it got soft and really fun for a few turns before the first cliff band. After that the snow deteriorated and we skied some weird crusty-punchy-icy-but-still-very-fun-snow to this gully at the top of Dry Canyon. The gully was super fun because it was softer and there were all sorts of little things to jump off and play around on. All in all, the run down took about 45 minutes. We stopped a lot and soaked in what we were doing.

Timp Pics

My favorite pic, this is rounding the corner to Emerald Lake looking back down into Heber and Aspen Grove.




Looking back down into Emerald Lake.


Last push up into the saddle. This is the Glacier you slide down in the summer time.


Made it! On the saddle preparing to descend into awesomeness.




Oh ya, Surface love!




Taylor shredding the best snow at the top


Matt and Taylor riding the Timper


From left: Matt Harding, Pete Later, Taylor Tuttle, and some really tall goon in his pajamas