Taos Comp

[Alkasquawlik]

Mens:
Womens
1.Lynsay Dyer
2.Laura Ogden
3.Andrea Krejci

Fuck yeah, Lindsey! As of Thursday night she wasn't going to compete. But then, she woke us up at 7 am on Friday when she decided that morning, on a whim, that she was going to enter the comp. She hitched a ride up and won da damn thing. Congrats.

[FRP]

Sunday was a great day at taos: six inches of fresh snow, blue skies and warm temps. The snow was more sierra cement than utah fluff but it skied like butter and was great for covering all the lurking rocks and stumps. After not making the cut on saturday, I hiked and skied pow all morning. it was my first time in taos and i'm seriously impressed with the place. no lift lines, mellow attitude, great snow, and sick terrain off of every lift. Taos locals must know of countless straightline chutes and pillow lines and cliff hucks and sheltered tree shots. I found plenty on my own just poking around for a couple of days. I watched the top 15 men in the super final in ther afternoon. The venue was awesome with tons of options from highspeed straightlines, airs and doubles to big hucks to technical billygoat lines. Spectating was ideal too: every gaper and their brother could see the venue from the top of chair 8(?) and quite a crowd accumulated throughout the day. Some highlights were brian anzini, gary fondl, and justing modroo tearing up the staufinbeg/turbinator area with fluid turns, straightlines, and big airs at the top and bottom of the venue, kiffor berg hucking 80+ ft, jesse hall skiing a sweet untracked line that nobody else touched ending in a straightline to stomped 30 footer, and countless insane billy-goat lines. None of the men in the superfinal disappointed at all; at the end of the day it seemed like any of them could have won. props to taos for hosting a great event, i'll be back next year if its on again.

[Big Blue]

All in all an awesome time. Taos rocks. Will post vid of comp/general freeskiing when editing is done.

[Lynx]

Hell yeah Ned and Kristen! (especially kristen! haha, sorry ned) i had no computer access all weekend. glad to hear you got the goods, wish i could have gone, i wanna see the video!

[Tresckow]

We just got in at 5am due to the hammering the wasatch is getting right now, I was more scared driving back than competing.

It was really fun, and we have some pics and stories, but sleep comes first.

[ill-advised strategy]

you bitchass...I can't believe you made me work for you.

Now I'm missing out on having to drive up the canyon with all the traffic. I might even have to eat the free breakfast.

I might even get 1st chair because of you.

bastard.

[Tresckow]

It's all about teamwork, right?

[ill-advised strategy]

seriously though, I'm glad you made it back OK and will be working while I sleep tonight.

I don't know how much of a rallying mood you're in, but it's a morning to rally if you have anything left in ya. Yesterday lots filled in with relatively heavy snow and graupel blowing around in 15-30 mph gusts...it's been at least a foot overnight.

[Tresckow]

I just drove through that snow starting in Priceand we were going maybe 20 in full blizzard conditions. I tried to upload some photos, but I'm too fried to figure on the resizing thing.

[FigureEleven]

News / Press Room

February 14, 2005
Taos Ski Valley, NM

NM Extreme Freeskiing Championship Final Results

Women's Results (Top 13)
1 Lynsey Dyer (Sun Valley)

2 Laura Odgen (Crestted Butte)

3 ANDREA KREJCI (TAOS SKI VALLEY)

4 MARCIA READY (TAOS SKI VALLEY)

5 CAROLINE COLONNA (TAOS SKI VALLEY)

6 Claire Smallwood (Portland)

7 CHRIS MERRILL (TAOS SKI VALLEY)

8 Nancy Elrod (Truckee)

9 BETH BUBERNAK (TAOS SKI VALLEY)

10 Drew Stern (Boulder)

11 Kristen Schmidt (Salt Lake City)

12 Sarah Lyman (Park City)

13 Kelly Holland (Salt Lake City)


Men's Result (Top 50 Results)
1 Craig Gabiel (Markleevill, CA)

2 John Witherspoon (Berthude Pass)

3 Briabn Anzini (Carbondale)

4 Gary Fondl (Frisco)

5 Joey Smallwood (Alta, WY)

6 Jesse Hall (Niwot)

7 Gabe Robbins (Gunnison)

8 Cliff Bennett (Ward, CO)

9 Kiffor Berg (Aspen)

10 Justin Modroo (Red Lodge)

11 Darrell Haggard (Frisco)

12 Roy Leckonby (Boulder)

13 EJ Poplawski (Salt Lake City)

14 Tobias Lee (Bellingham)

15 John Mason (Breckenridge)

16 Tyler Knoles (Boutiful, UT)

17 Kyle Davis (Boulder)

18 MICHAEL HOLMQUIST (TAOS SKI VALLEY)

19 Drew Stoecklein

20 George Casaletta (Dillon)

21 Andy Racich (Truckee)

22 Brandon Wilinson (Park City)

23 Yuzuru Handa (Japan) SICKBIRD AWARD

24 Lucas Urtiaga (Santa Fe)

25 Aine Falter (Crestted Butte)

26 Gary Hicks (Crestted Butte)

27 Cory Zila (Mammoth Lakes)

28 Jared Mazilish (Breckenridge)

29 Chris Laub (Sandy, UT)

30 Teague Holmes (Breckenridge)

31 Jonny Manwaring (Park City)

32 Max Kuszaj (Salt Lake City)

33 DANIEL GREENWALD (TAOS SKI VALLEY)

34 LP Selgal (Olympic Valley)

35 Brady Smedsrud (Salt Lake City)

36 Ryan Banker (Frisco)

37 JOE AUGUSTEN (TAOS SKI VALLEY)

38 Miles Clark (Homewood)

39 Alex Mueller (Santa Fe)

40 TIM NAYLOR (TAOS SKI VALLEY)

41 Shaun Spacht (Dillon)

42 Myles Fitzgerald (Santa Fe)

43 DAN IRION (TAOS SKI VALLEY)

44 Justin Rogers (Santa Fe)

45 Russ Costa (Salt Lake City)

46 RJ Ponchione (Santa Fe)

47 Elijah Lee (Jeneau, AK)

48 Travis Wolfe (Ophir, CO)

49 Brad Schilling (Los Alamos)

[Blurred]

8 Summit County guys, top 50..... nice.

[cmsummit]

8 Summit County guys, top 50..... nice.

Yeah, good to see Gary up there in the #4 spot.

[FollowMe]

Kristen no. 11 - is that Kristen Kristen? Regardless, nice work both of you. I'll be up in SLC b/4 the season is over, gunnin' for a pow day - c you all then!

P. S. Ned, shouldn't you be up in BCC right now? Who cares if you got in at 5AM, sack up

[girlski0912]

So stoked for Lynsey and Laura right now. Laura is killing it so far this season on the tour!!! And nice job to Kristen as well!

[13]

Holy crap, the Smallwoods & Capt. Insaneo finished again. Sweet!

[taoslcl]

The Taos website just put a great video up with some competition highlights. Go to taosski.com and check out the Feb 13th video. I also tried to upload some of their still shots. Not sure if it worked or not. Congrats to everyone who competed. It was an awsome event.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Where is that vid? Pokin around the the Taos site and I found all the results & photo gallery & updates from the comp, but don't see the vid. Got a direct link? I must be going blind.

[nest]

I didnt find it either. But you must factor in that I am a moron.

[Mcwop]

The Taos website just put a great video up with some competition highlights. Go to taosski.com and check out the Feb 13th video. I also tried to upload some of their still shots. Not sure if it worked or not. Congrats to everyone who competed. It was an awsome event.

That video was good stoke. Taos always has some cool vids on their site.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Found it...It's buried on the webcam page. Right side of the screen.

[kush1]

WOW that's a pretty sweet vid. I really liked that Darrel and Roy's doubles.

[ill-advised strategy]

Watched the vid. It's a rare occasion that those cliffs are skiable. I dare say the reason Taos competitors didn't jump that stuff is that anyone who skis Taos every day knows that those landings are usually thin and full of sharp rocks.

I'm amazed. I really hope people who see this are wise when they go to Taos and keep in mind that this was a rare combination of heavy snow on good base...otherwise you're throwing yourself onto what's almost always dry snow on a hollow base over very sharp rocks.

[jonski]

30 Teague Holmes (Breckenridge)

Noice one Teague....Good to see my friend's still going for it.

Good luck going in to the comps at Aspen, which is no doubt the next on the list.....