Report from February 21, 2025

After skiing backcountry for the past 6 days, it felt like it was time to ski the resort.

Specifically the terrain park.

I started the day doing laps on the Aretu chairlift and hitting the park each run.

I started just hitting one of the 2 big jumps then evolved to hitting them both.

The goal was ten 360s and ten backflips.

The day was warm and getting warmer.

After 2 straight airs I started into the 360s and after 5 of them I realized they just weren’t working right.

I met a nice Lithuanian kid named Simonas in the park and he was simply hiking the jumps.

I said he was getting 3 jumps every 10 minutes.

That beat my 1 jump every 15…

I joined him and we had a blast riding and hiking together.

He was throwing non-stop 720s and 900s and going off.

I stuck to my plan.

Two straight airs.

Five 360s.

Ten backflips.

Five more 360s.

One more backflips as we left about 3pm.

Felt like we were there forever and it just kept getting warmer.

I ended up in just my base layer.

I had so much damn fun with Simonas and he had a camera with a tripod and filmed the whole thing!

Thanks, Simonas.

After that I rolled down into the Courmayeur marketing office to meet up with Lorenzo & Elena.

They were lovely.

Lorenzo also works for Grivel, the mountaineering company, and he gave a gift/mini-sponsorship of a Ghost Tech ice axe, Ski Matic crampons, Scream rappel device, a Mistral Light harness, and a couple of neck gaiters.

I was speechless and honored.

That evening I had a quick live zoom call with Fox11 Reno TV station talking about the season in Lake Tahoe.

Those live TV segments are always a fun challenge.

Yesterday was a truly terrific day.

(I forgot my phone yesterday so no photos…)

Thanks so much, Italy!

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