Archive for the tag 'Snow Skiing'

Poppa P
Dec 20th, 2007

SOAR Execs Meet Shelly Robertson, World-Class Moguls Skier and U.S. Ski Team Member

She looked a bit harried, standing there, waiting for the crush of travellers in front of her to finish boarding the 757 so she could collapse into her seat in 20A.

Shelly Robertson, U.S. Ski Team, Freestyle/MogulsShe was cute in an outdoorsy sort of way, her sandy blonde hair pulled up on the back of her head. As she stood there waiting for the line of passengers to finally move forward, I noticed her patterned plum and white parka, a design I’d never seen before. 

Just another college kid traveling home for the weekend, I thought. College kid? Probably. And as it turned out, she was about to wrap up her degree at the University of Nevada Reno; but she was also a lot more than that too.

Meet Shelly Robertson, nine-year veteran of the U.S. Ski Team (freestyle) and world-class moguls skier.

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Poppa P
Dec 10th, 2007

Winter Hits Utah

Officially, winter is close to two weeks away. But when I look out my front window and spy close to a foot of fresh snow in my yard here in Sandy, Utah, I know that winter is here whether the calendar says so or not.

Yup, during the past 36-48 hours Northern Utah has gotten slammed by a major storm that dumped as much as two to three feet of powder at local resorts.

For example, Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort now has 48 inches at mid-mountain. Alta Ski Resort reports 54 inches at the base, while Deer Valley has a base of 42 inches.

Who knows? Maybe this will be the year our multi-year drought in Utah gets knocked out cold. All I know for sure is that it’s right time to be living where we have “The Greatest Snow on Earth.”