Update - Neither Ed and I made it to the next day. I tried to go fast
and take chances like a lot of people were telling me and I picked a
great line; it just wasn’t a great line for the conditions. I almost
crashed slamming on the brakes after an air and then I washed out
slamming on the brakes again after the next one. According Jim Jack,
the head judge, I “scared the judges” which isn’t really a good thing.
Edward also had to slam on the brakes coming to a complete stop and
the judges docked him for control real hard. He skied a great line
and got screwed over in more than just our opinions hahah. Another
skier actually lost a ski at the beginning of his line and made the
cut, which is pretty absurd. So we were definitely disappointed, but
got over it pretty quick.

The weather is blowing out there right now so the competition is still
in a weather hold. Chopo Diaz is in the lead with a 40.88, Julian
Lopez is in second with a 40.69 and a Swiss guy named Romain Bellon is
in 3rd with a 40.5. Ben Wheeler had an impressive run and is in the
4th with 40.19. For the women Jacqui Edgerley is leading followed by
Jess McMillan and Chopo’s 16 year old sister Soledad, or Sol with
35.94, 35.38, and a 35.25, respectively. And our friend Caleb Mullen
unfortunately fell victim to the speed of the venue as well and had a
scary tumble over some rocks which he didn’t have enough speed to
clear after scrubbing it all away.

Thanks for reading! Check back for photos, the internets suck so bad
down here we are going to have to wait for better connections to get
more up. Hopefully all the snow will mean great skiing tomorrow,
we’ll get to test out Fortitude’s new reverse camber ski. There
aren’t any trees up here though, so a white-out is a white-out and is
pretty funny; just aim for the sticks that mark the runs! Take care!

-William and Edward

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 6th, 2009 at 11:18 am and is filed under TwoPlank Blog & News Archive, Blogroll.