2008
09.22

How To Save A Saturday

Last Saturday was a rare occurrence, woke up with no real plans for the day.  Come Monday and you realize you blew your only shot at doing something fun for the next 5 days, is perhaps the worst feeling ever.  I try my best to never burn a Saturday, this week came pretty close but got saved in a big way.  At about noon, I decided it was now or never to save the day and do something fun, called Arturo and we decided a skate sesh was in order, then got the idea to bring along my little point and shoot camera (Canon SD400 which has served me very very well over the years) to try and shoot some video. Below is the evidence of a Saturday saved by a perfect little skate session.  (Make sure you TURN IT UP!)

2008
09.16

Switchskier 2.0, or 3.0, maybe 4.0?

Welcome to yet another revision on the Switchskier site, if you’ve been with Switchskier for a while you have probably seen the site go thru many many revisions and upgrades, and I don’t intend to stop tweeking and playing. Switchskier has come a long way from a linux script that created a simple photo album on a server I built stashed away in a closet, using a crap .co.nr free domain name. With this revision, Switchskier marks its transformation into a “real” website, we now have a real server and domain (no more down time if my house lost power last night and the dynamic dns hasn’t updated yet). I have decided to option wordpress for the platform for it’s ease of use and easy theme-ability. There is a new twitter feed on the top right that will show short update snippets, a tag cloud for easy post navigation, and by using wordpress, I can take advantage of the really cool iPhone app to update this site where ever I am. The content really will not change much, and I will continue to post just about anything I feel is cool enough to share with my friends. The biggest improvement that wordpress brings to Switchskier is definitely the comments, so please feel free to comment away, and thanks for taking a look at the new site!

2008
09.14

Last good ride of the season?

Rode from the gondola thru Minturn and back to Jeny’s Dad’s house up in Vail. The ride was awesome!

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