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Welcome to Winter 2012!!!! Yes we were blessed with 3-5 feet of snow. Powder-what a beautiful thing! It is amazing what it can do to a ski town. Everyone in town is STOKED! Yeah yeah…I know we have to shovel it, dig out our cars. Yes it does get tiring on day 4-5 but all is forgotten when you click in Enjoy this edit from skiing with friends at Sun Valley at the start of the storm. Some vids of local, Lexi duPont
With most ski areas having a paltry amount of snow, Taos is offering free skiing to pass-holders from Vail and other ski resorts. Their logic is that if these skiers try Taos, they'll spend money on other things and come back in the future. What's the downside to trying that here? Read the full details in an article on MSNBC - Small ski resorts go after big-time competitors. Melissa Arnot is a professional high-altitude mountaineer. At 27, she’s summited all the peaks you’ve heard of, and lots more you haven’t. She came to Sun Valley for the mountains, and stayed for the people. The Mountaineer from Visit Sun Valley on Vimeo. Andy Gilbert coaches the Sun Valley snowboard team, organizes huge competitions like the Rail Jam, rides in the skate park he rallied the community to build, and still finds time to pick up his kids from school.
The Coach from Visit Sun Valley on Vimeo. Ashley Brown was on the Sun Valley Alpine team growing up. When her racing days came to an end, she found a way to keep skiing Baldy every day, to keep living the way she grew up —outdoors and carefree.
The Ski Patroller from Visit Sun Valley on Vimeo. 
Dear Local Tele Skiers, Telemark Skier Magazine presents its latest effort "Loyalty" this Friday, November 4th, 7:30 pm at Whiskey Jacques. For each ticket sold, $2 will be donated to the Sawtooth National Forest Avalanche Center.
Also, Sun Valley Tele will be there with info about our race series "2012: The Telepocalypse." 11/4/Fri – Sun Valley, ID – Whiskey Jacques
@ 7:30pm $10 Buy Tix
Hope to see you all there. Pray for Snow,
SUN VALLEY TELE *full Wilderness First Responder course running from November 11-20: 
*Diverse Collection of Individuals Unite to Help Elevate Awareness of Sustainability Issues and Keep Earth in Business* Happy Summer, To cool you off....some July ski action from Mt. Hood. So far the Mt. Niceness~West-topia tour had been great. The Westy kicks ass and I'm rolling in style and comfort...Thanks Go-Westy!Latest blog with more niceness... All the best- 
SVSEF’s Jordan and Jay Fitzgerald recently returned from Meribel, France, where they participated in the British National Children’s Alpine Ski Championships. The Fitzgeralds maintain dual nationality and qualified for the championships after submitting their USSA points to the race organizers. The national championships are limited to 90 boys and 60 girls, in the equivalent of the USSA’s J-3 and J-4 age categories, and consist of Super-G, GS and slalom competitions.
Though Great Britain is not a dominant ski nation at the World Cup level, most of the elite competitors attend race academies in the U.S., Austria, France or Italy. Jay remarked, “The competition was extremely strong, especially in slalom because the British skiers train on indoor snow or artificial slopes all year.”
Despite very poor snow conditions, the championships were held in the same race arena that was used for the women’s alpine events during the 1992 Albertville Olympics....
Winter Two Thousand Heaven~Epic TahoeYeah yeah I know what your thinking when you here the word epic. Everything seems epic these days but, the snow that dumped down on Tahoe last week was as true to epic as it gets! I quit counting after 100 inches and that was around Wed. It was something like a dream the one that you had since you were a kid-where it didn’t stop snowing!!! As we drove to our friends house we traveled through little tunnels of snow where you can’t see street signs let alone houses. Inside the fire was stoked as you couldn’t see out the windows of the house because of 30-40 feet of snow outside. All this snow was in Meyers, CA. What would 600 inches look like up at Kirkwood? Day 1 18 degrees and 38 inches of fresh greeted us our first morning. Yes it was a true blower over head all day . The Patrol at Kirkwood did a great job getting things open so the face shots never stopped.....
Sun Valley's 75th winter season will be one of the resort's longest, continuing through Easter Sunday, April 24, 2011. Beginning April 4 and running through April 10, 95% of Baldy's ski terrain will be served by Lower River Run #1, Lookout Express #5, Frenchman's #8, Challenger #10, Mayday #14 and Seattle Ridge #12. Greyhawk #7 will be in operation April 8-9. Lower River Run, Lookout Express and Challenger lifts will continue operation through April 17. The Mountain Niceness never stops! Sun Valley was blessed with a great spring storm at Sun Valley. Enjoy this ski action from a stormy Bald mountain. 
The SVSEF's annual celebratory race, The Hobson Memorial, will be held Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at Dollar Mountain beginning at 10:30 am. SVSEF skiers will don their favorite costumes for this wonderful event. Race registration forms are available on the SVSEF website or in the office. Sign-up deadline is Monday, March 21. There will be no day-of-race registration. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Heather Daves, 578-2127 or hfloodd@aol.com, or Carrie Ritzel, 928-6248 or CarrieRitzel@mac.com Here is some footy from skiing under the gondola at Sun Valley. A really fun new line for me. This was the first time I used the Drift HD 170 cam. 
34th Annual Hobson Memorial Ski Race - Open to all Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation members Registration forms available online at svsef.org Must register by March 21. $12. per racer. Costumes encouraged. Check-in and Bib pick up 9-10:am at Dollar Cabin Race Starts at 10:30am. Dual racing format. A buddy of mine shared this fun little "movie" of his recent trip to the Pioneer Yurt (run by our friends at Sun Valley Trekking). Some nice ski porn and he threw in a triple daffy for old times sake - not bad for a guy a few weeks shy of his 46th.
Great video by Sun Valley Local Greg Martin. This crew did a one lift tour with SV Heli Guide Bozo Cardozo which started at the top of Otto's (10,458ft). They proceeded to explore the skiing off the Lake Creek headwall and ended with a ski to the valley floor and a pick up at highway. The one lift tour is a great way to get some time in the heli and get a ski tour to some hard to reach locations. One Lift Tour from Greg Martin on Vimeo.
One Lift Tour from Greg Martin on Vimeo. 
[Sun Valley, Idaho] Back for its second year, the 511 Downtown Rail Jam, held February 26 from 7-10pm will showcase local and traveling skiers and snowboarders on an actual street rail and a new feature created by Sun Valley Resort’s Terrain Park Crew. The downtown location, at 511 Leadville Avenue in Ketchum, means there is no need for spectators or participants to purchase lift tickets and admission to the event is free.
$1000 in prize money will be awarded, as well as bragging rights. Spectators will enjoy music by DJ Train, food, libations and fire pits, in addition to the awesome shred spectacle. Other prizes are also up for grabs. Registration will be at 6:30pm at the 511 Building, on 6th and Leadville, the day of the Rail Jam. The competition entry is $10 and all participants must sign a liability release or parental consent form for competitors under 18. The $10 entry fee benefits the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation. Participants can learn more by contacting Andy Gilbert with the SVSEF at andy@svsef.... Excellent powder conditions currently exist in our terrain. We have received 1-2 feet of snow over the past week and more is expected in the coming days. We have space available over the next several days. Now is the time to get out. Here is a video from Sunday, February 20th, 2011.
Sun Valley Heli Skiing - Feb 20, 2011 from EpicQuest on Vimeo. Some footage of the great powder conditions currently available in the mountains surrounding Sun Valley. 
New snow is in the forecast and Sun Valley Heli Ski will be offering 1/2 day specials this Friday and Saturday to get out and enjoy some powder skiing. Our 1/2 day program will start at 1:00PM and 4 runs are guaranteed. The price for the 1/2 day program is $600 per person. Give us a call to learn more and sign up. Limited space available. Phone: 208.622.3108 
SUN VALLEY TREKKING has been exploring wild landscapes with guests since 1982. Our purpose is to sustain the human spirit through adventure and exploration. As one of the foremost wilderness hut-to-hut ski operations in North America, our six backcountry Huts and Yurts provide exceptional opportunities for hut-skiing, field-based avalanche education courses, and summer trekking in the mountains of central Idaho. As licensed outfitters and guides for telemark and randonee skiing, cross-country touring, snowboarding, snowshoeing and trekking, we specialize in custom guided treks year round. And, with unique adventure opportunities based out of Yellowstone, Alaska and Chile, Sun Valley Trekking provides the highest-quality, awe-inspiring adventure that will keep you coming back year after year.
Check out this nice post Dylan Crossman put together for the Mammut blog about their ski trip with us a few weeks ago. Dylan is one of Mammut's athletes:
Lexi duPont, Lynsey Dyer, Reggie Crist, Eric Leidecker and Zach Crist show their stuff from Tahoe to Alaska in some "ski porn"
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