January Dayze

Here is a sweet little video from the action of the last three posts, it was a great week and a half.
Check it out. Some good footage for sure.


January Dayze from Fred Norquist on Vimeo.

Williams Peak

After the snow became far too skied out on the mountains in the week of dryness, we headed to the backcountry to find the deeper snow, and learn to land backflips better. We skinned up, and built two fun jumps, both good for trying backflips, and other inverted tricks. The first jump was fun with a beautiful backdrop of Sopris. The second was a large hip-style jump that landed in deep powder. We also skied some amazing snow on the way down.



Me learning to lay it out on the first lip we built.


Jake bustin it huge with Mt. Sopris in the background.


I climbed into a tree to get this shot, it was sweet.

Jake attempting a linken loop on the second jump we built, it ended up being a cork 3 ish to his head.



Me attemptimg the Double Backflip, i almost got it around,and just barely caught my tips on the second rotation.

These posts area little late because the skiing was so epic the last five days. Check back for more from those days.

A little Snowmass Action

A couple weeks ago, we headed to snowmass after our sick day on sunday, built a backflip jump, and practiced flipping off of cliffs. It was a good day.


Me on a backflip attempt.
Me backflipping like a 15 foot cliff

Jake busting out the frontflip, HUGE.

Jake again with the frontflip, he killed it.

Maroon Bells From the highlands bowl.

A fun day indeed.

The Saga of Sunday

The first Sunday a moon ago a day something spiraled out of the heavens with dazzling magnificence. OH WAIT! That was Hayden! Or Fred or Noah, or Nick Malik... you get the picture. With good snow in Rock Island in Snowmass we united our forces to make bad decisions. Damn it feels good when everyone around you is going huge, telling you the landing's soft on the line you don't want to ski and in general just absolutely crushing it.

Noah, Hayden and Jake starting the day of right. Fred hit a stout line just to the right of Noah in the shot. At first we were all four gonna go together but we became certain Fred and Noah would collide.

Fred firing up one of our new favorite doubles. That day in Garrets Gulch got us hooked on double stagers.

Jake on a different line in the same area, Fred on top of his line.

Hayden going HUGE! 25 feet to that small pillow. The line no one else wanted to try. And definetly the stoutest of the day. On a side note, you know how people tell you not to say "funner" the actual grammatical rule is you add "er" to all single syllable words and say most before multi-syllables. e.g: "harder" in contrast to "more difficult."

Noah coming off the second cliff a sick double stager, 10 to 15 or so.



Does anybody have any questions?

Snowmass Pillow Lines

After having explored Rock Island and Gowdy's pretty thoroughly, we decided to check out the lines we see from the lift everyday. These lines lie in the depths of Garret's Gulch. We at first were unsure if the area was open or not, but lucky for us and the pillow lines which we so lovingly caressed it was. We took turns shooting video, and hiked the lines all day. It was well worth it, some great pillows in there.

Fred on the first sweet pillow line of his life. A few 3 foot pillows to a nice drop at the end.

Jake's first pillow line of his life. A few 3 footers above, then to the lower few pillows.

Fred figured he could go off the tip to the right of jake's previous line. It worked out well.

Jake with a sick two-tiered cliff line.

Fred on another sweet one, a nice small pillow just below this one too.


Jake stepping it up gracefully negotiating the pillows followed by a not-so-graceful face plant.

It was another great day of skiing, stay tuned for more insight into the life of gnar-questing.

All shots are stills from video so they arent super clear.

A Day At Snowmass

Well I just got back from an amazing kayaking trip to Chile, and of course the first day i get back Jake Takes me huckin, here is a lil vid from a couple days of sweet sweet Snowmass. Our day usually consists of first tracks on rick island, three runs on that, then lapping gowdy's once it opens, then lunch, then one run on Gowdy's and a run on Baby ruth's. Good days for sure.


A Day At Snowmass from Fred Norquist on Vimeo.

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