blueSeeing as I am a magnificent writer I will effectively summarize the last couple weeks in a very brief, 2 paragraph “blog.” So we headed out on Sunday morning (Jan 27th) from Salt Lake to make our way out to Copper Mountain for the US Freeskiing Open. A caravan of 3 cars carrying our crew of 9 finally rolled out at about 11 AM right as a big storm moved in. After 3-4 hours in a McDonalds, 3-4 hours in a gas station/convenience store, and about 9 hours of slow driving we got in at 2 in the morning. Luckily we didn’t leave Utah an hour earlier with our good buddy Evan Moore and arrive 9 hours earlier. bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehou Highlights of the trip included: bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse I bought a new balaclava for $16 bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse blueh That balaclava accounted for about 20% of my expenses for the trip bluehouse bluehouse blue I landed one of my runs during qualifiers bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse blueh There was plenty of fun to be had and friends to be made bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse blue I slept in the same bed as Tom Wallisch and LJ Strenio. bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse Some lowlights of the trip: bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse blu I now own a balaclava bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse blueh On the run I landed I accidently blew it on the rail section so i still didn’t qualify bluehouse blue My friend and fellow team mate John Kutcher ended up falling on his two runs and not making it through qualifiers either bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse blu I slept in the same bed as Tom Wallisch and LJ Strenio. bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse blueNow we’re back in Park City with some sunny weather finally. Unfortunately, on the first run of the first sunny day I came in 2nd in the “Who can separate their shoulder first” game me and John have been playing this season. He beat me by almost a two months by separating his on December 14th, myself finishing well below par on February 8th. I’ve got my doctor’s appointment in about 2 hours so hopefully everything will be ready to rip ASAP.bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse blue And I hate blogs with just words so here’s some pretty pictures. Including my hero, Chris Turpin, ripping the S Rail at High North; the ski design I’m turning in a month late… and my brother and Ibluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse bluehouse blueh If any of this doesn’t make sense, I’m on some pretty decent pain killers for this shoulder so that would be the reason for that. Love, Ryan