Looking forward...

I am currently looking forward to summer. I am trying to get over to New Zealand this summer to visit my bro Chris Erickson who is living down there now. VI is planning a film trip to capture all the madness. The last VI trip resulted in a series of inverted cliff hucks for over 80 feet. Crazy cats. I dig though. Something takes us over in times like these and pure madness insues. On the darker side though I am trying to get back to Wisco this week to visit my grandpa who had some emergency surgery this week. Feeling bad for him, but he is a tough pizano and he is pulling through. Send out some love to Papa Don so he has a quick recovery.

Technical difficulties...

I have been having some technical difficulties these days with my internet as well as this weblog. My username and password would not work for the longest time. It was a real pain in my ass. It has been some time since I last posted as a result of this bullshit. A lot has gone down and I am stoked to tell about it. I have been back for about a week now. I was gone for about three weeks. First, I flew up to Alaska with Stephane Riendeau and Kevin Klein for a Karhu heli trip in Valdez. It was off the hook. I was skiing with Ryan Boyer, Jamie Parks, Sarah Clemenson, Andrew McGary, and Eric Henderson was our esteemed guide. That place is something else. This was my first time in AK, first time in a heli, and Rachel Jines bought me my first taste of king crab. Tasty, tasty all of it. After I skied my last line in AK I jumped back in the heli and cruised it down to the airport where I jumped a series of flights over to Innsbruck, Austria for a tele-cross race. Dylan Crossman and I represented the United States in the World Championship race and of course, our luggage did not show up in time. We did the race in rental gear, street clothes, and sunglasses. It was pretty funny to see, but we did our best with what we had. I made it to the second heat of the finals, but no further. We partied like rockstars with the international cast of skiers and saw a couple of nice sunrises as a result. The folks were great, and the bar was on fire, literally. They actually started the entire circular bar on fire with lighter fluid during a remix of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire". It was pretty sweet, you don't see that in the States. Then back to Utah where the season is finished and the summer working season has begun. Back to Geiger & Wood Stone Masonry and also my night job at Delta. Work, work, work is the name of the game now so that I can pay off the credit card debt I have incurred over the winter. It was a good one to say the least. The snow in Utah did not cooperate, but we still got it done. Look for the action from this year in next season's releases from Tough Guy Productions, Lipstick films, and Summit Side Productions. Vertical Integration is trying to get over to New Zealand this summer for some extra madness, but we will see if we can pull it off. Stoked on the winter, ready for summer.