Basically spent the day walking around new york. Here is a visual tour of New York.
Mall st in Central park
This bad boy was sitting in the middle of central park. Kinda random
Horse and cart going into central park
Past the empire state building while walking through town
Just a random pic of a street in NYC that I thought was cool
Laura looking over the Manhattan skyline from Liberty Island
Brooklyn bridge I think???
Laura just chillen in the park on Liberty Island
Just to clarify it’s the Statue of liberty
Another view in all it’s glory
Laura and I on the boat back to New York
Anyway Im off to bed. Had a huge day today and I have another huge day tomorrow. I am flying to Geneva but I am not sure if I will be able to fly out of Washigton due to all the snow they have. We will have to wait and see what happens then I guess.
Got to the airport with plenty of time to spare this morning. Turns out due to snow storms our flights were delayed and we may not have been able to make it to NYC today. So we decided to cancel out flights and jumped on the train instead. It was about 2h and 30 mins and was actually a pretty good trip.
The train was actually pretty sweet
View on the train
The train ran right along the hudson river which was pretty sweet. As soon as we got to NYC we started exploring. We went to time square and looked through shops and all sorts of things there.
In the middle of time square…..
The yellow cabs of NYC
Just finished a coffee
Time square by night
Pretty stoked that I get the chance to check out the sights in New York. I keep having to pinch my self to make sure its not a dream.
Just about to head to bed to get some sleep for the long day of sight-seeing ahead. Should be another exciting day so stay tuned.
Just packed my bags in our hotel and we are off to the airport to get a plane to NYC. Can’t wait to check out New York. Going to be one of the more interesting stop over’s I will have.
Went up the hill and attempted to watch the slope finals live. It was way to cold for that so I went into the lodge and watched it on the big screen.
Elias and his dad (I think its a toad fish on the far right)
Sorry for the bad quality. This was elvis on the big screen…
Congrats to Sammy, Andreas and Bobby for making podium. Also congrats to the rest for skiing well because this was a tough course for sure.
The final standings
The podium.
Well I’m off to have a hot tub. Then going to get back on the mission of icing and stretching my calf. Got to get it working and better before france. Going there to film with MSP. stoked.
Had a tough time today. I woke up in the mind set that I would be competing. I got ready, went up the hill and after two runs I could tell that my calf wasn’t ready. It was such an intense pain when I landed. I felt like there wasn’t much point in trying to compete as I would not have been able to do any of the tricks I would have wanted to. Kinda bummed that I pulled out but I think I made the right decision.
Gus Kenworthy his first run of training
Well done to all that qualified. You guys killed it on the course. Here is the top 9 that made it:
1) Sammy Carlson – 86.83
2) Charles Gagnier – 85.67
3) Alexis Godbout – 85.00
4) JF Houle – 83.67
5) Jossi Wells – 83.50
6) Alex Schlopy – 83.50
7) Joe Schuster – 83.17
8) Elvis Harsheim – 82.50
9) McRae Williams – 80.17
Top qualifier Sammy Carlson during training
After the slope qualification I headed home to ice and massage my calf. Feels a little better but I think it could take a while to heal. Then we headed up to watch the pipe qualifications.
Fellow volkl athlete tyler. He killed it and qualified 5th
Colby West goofin around
Then during pipe I got bored and decided to snap a few shots. Tell me what you think of them?
Woke up to the view of the mountain. Pretty sweet how close we are this year. I am super stoked on that.
View from my room
Headed up the hill to check the course and this was what I was greeted by:
1st feature: UP-GAP-DOWN box
2nd feature: Up box
3rd feature: jump
4th feature: toyota cannon box
5th feature: 2 down rails
6th & 7th feature are jumps
At present there is very little you could do on the course. On the second feature you can’t make the landing. On the first jump you can’t make the landing unless your fat and heavy and on the toyota cannon you can’t make the landing. Ow and the last jump is way way to flat. There is a rider’s meeting pretty soon so hopefully we can get it sorted. I did about 3 runs on the course today and I am so sore from it. Not sure if my calf is ready to ski yet so I will have to get back to icing and stretching
So since I have a new camera I thought I would show you how my day went with pictures
Got up at the crack of dawn and drove from breck to DIA
Breakfast in DIA
While waiting for our flight we found Matt walker. Turns out him and Matt Margets were both on the same flights
Then we flew to Philli and then through to Albany.
MAC party in Phili while waiting for our next flight
All the car’s in Albany were sold out except for this PT cruiser. Luckily managed to fit everything. The Canadians weren’t so lucky and had a smaller car with 4 people + bags
Matt M and Matt W sharring the back seat for a 2h drive
Training starts at 8.00am tomorrow so I need to get to bed to make sure my batteries are recharged and ready to go.
Back in Breck at Grant’s house. It was a pretty easy trip with two stops at two different wallmarts. At the first wallmart we made an awesome investment in the house hold version of buck hunter. It’s amazing because it conects to any tv so I can travel with a game everywhere.
At the next wallmart I made the decision to buy a new camera as my old one crapped itself. I am super stoked on the camera. Its a Sony Cyber-shot and it is amazing. I still havent had much time to figure it out but within the next few days I will hopefully be able to figure it.
This is my new camera
Just finished packing my bags. We are traveling to the east coast tomorrow for the next Dew Tour stop. Should be a pretty big day because we are leaving at 6 to make our flight. Should be fun haha.
This is basically what my bag looks like packed
Well I’m off to play some buck hunter. Hope you enjoyed the post and Ill report in tomorrow.
Xgames is done and dusted and I am kind of glad it is because it’s one of the most stressful weeks of the year. Mad props goes to the top three of super pipe last night you guys killed it. So stoked for kevin he really deserved it and I don’t think it could have happened to a nicer guy.
So I was just given a link to watch this video. Basically Jossi has got some mad fans and they have written him a song. Check it out it is amazing and I’m sure this video is going to make top ten on the charts
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Ow and I got a new helmet. My new helmet didn’t make it to Aspen in time for it to be sprayed so Jon has given me his new one. Pretty stoked. It fits my head really well and the paint job is sick.
Heading back to Breck now and then flying to Mt Snow tomorrow. Should be pretty fun.
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