Archive for the 'Extreme sports' Category

Last December David blogged about meeting US Ski Team mogul skier Shelly Robertson. Well, this weekend is the Deer Valley Resort Visa Freestyle Invitational and Shelly is in town.

Shelly Robertson US Ski Team MogulsWhen we first met Shelly she was returning home to Reno after taking 7th place in the women’s moguls competition at the 2008 World Cup season opener in Tignes, France. Since then we have traded emails back and forth with a plan to see her ski in person at the Deer Valley event.

After France, her next event was the Nature Valley Freestyle Cup on January 20 in Lake Placid, New York. I’m signed up for the US Ski Team email newsletter (You can sign up in the middle of the page at (www.usskiteam.com), and I saw that she took 5th place, so I sent her a congratulations email. She responded, “I was definitely excited about 5th- skiing really well- just went way too big on the bottom jump and almost over-rotated the backflip.” That statement turned out to be prophetic for her next event.

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Man jumps off mountain. . . survives

So we’re on the downward slide of Summer and it’s been a hot one here in Salt Lake City. And although I don’t like snow very much, I just thought putting up this video would be just a little reminder of cooler days.

This is extreme outdoor sports for sure!

Oh yeah, and just a reminder that we have great skiing in Utah.