Salt Lake City. November 5th, 2008. Stop
2 full feet of snow in the hills in the last 48 hours. Stop
No signs of stopping. Stop
End communication. Stop
Stop. Stop

Thanks to our friends at Skiing Magazine for calling out some of our Ski Utah work:

See the sticker as illustrated by HabbenINK below:

I don’t know if it’s the helmets, the dirt on our faces, or the pile of bikes littered about as if we tossed them with so much reckless abandon—but this crew of Struckers (and our gracious Deer Valley hosts) looks like the roughest crew in town.

Truth told, we rarely strayed from the intermediate trails and the biggest challenge of the day was finishing off the ridiculously scrumptious desserts at the Royal Street Café (you’ve gotta try the Ice Cream Sandwich… you’ve just gotta). Anyway… massive thanks and much love to our comrades at DVR for hooking up the most radical morning of the summer.

Well actually, it’s a bunch of Struckers. Yesterday, MAY-GOSH-DARN-FOURTH, was a day of Spring skiing that left Struckers Jon Minori and Brandon Knowlden wanting nothing more than a few extra vacation days. The air was warm and the skiing was good, but on our way to the car, lo-and-behold, a kicker. It was so pretty, just glistening in the sun and begging to be owned. Jon flipped forwards and I flipped backwards and to round it all out, Jon’s brother Josh, was hookin’ up some sweet flat spins.

Let it be known: this is how Struck rolls.

So recently I took the ride of terror on the bob sled at the Winter Sports Park. WOW (not World of Warcraft WOW) but WOW as in amazing. My wife increases our life insurance policy and then I get a B-Day present to go bob sledding (interesting… interesting). A 54 second ride of terror that had me holding on for dear life. We almost hit 80 MPH and I would have liked to look around, but my head was being pelted into the guys back in front of me at the tune of 6 G’s. Other than that it was a rush. It was cool and to top it all off the guy to the left (our driver) is Pat Brown. Who is Pat Brown? If you have seen the movie Cool Runnings about the Jamaican bob sled team then you know John Candy played a coach named Pat Brown. It’s a small world after all.

The Upper Struckers recently converged on Snowbird Resort for the annual Struck Managers Meeting. We came. We were trained. We conquered. And for the second year in a row, the most beginner-skier of the bunch got ditched on the slopes!

It’s hard to comprehend that almost 8 feet of snow has fallen in the last seven days out here. At times it’s hard to focus on your day job while its dumping freshies outside. When the weekend comes it’s time to saddle up and ride!

Corey shralping the aspens.

Attn: Black Diamond. Paul rips.

Where did Brandon go?

Dust off your neck gator, this is blower pow!

Adam’s “O” face.

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Check out more pics through the year here…

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Not everything tasty is candy and chocolate. This December saw over 180 inches of freshies at the Bird. What a sweet sweet thing to come back to after the holiday break!

Brandon K. shredding the pow-pow.

Yours truly trying to 180 this small drop… Didn’t turn out well.

Having moved here from Pittsburgh, the only thing October meant to me was candy corn, crazy Steeler fans and beer in plastic jugs at Oktoberfest. Here in Utah it means early season lines and more snow than I knew what to do with.

Motionboy and I went up to Alta to get some preseason shreddage.

Hiking…

More hiking…

Almost there…

After 3 hours we finally made it to our line. I’m not going to say how many times I thought about giving up on life along the way……..(somewhere between 3 and 5)

motionboy ’shredding the gnar’.

Yours truly avoiding a bush.

While we tried to take as many pics as possible we didn’t get any shots of the top where the snow was even deeper. However we did get an artist’s rendering of those events.

It was a most awesome start of the year and opening days are right around the corner! Get those skis or that snowboard waxed and we’ll see ya on the hill mountain.

The B-roll is an ongoing project that we are handling for the Utah Office of Tourism and it has taken us all over the state. Most recently we’ve taken out efforts to the Bonneville Salt Flats, the Moab Music Festival, Little Sahara, Coral Pink and Paria Canyon.