Two Months, in a Nutshell

Ok, so I'm not doing so well with one of my New Year's resolutions... keeping my blog up-to-date. DOH! I really am going to try and be better about this, and post at least once a week! We'll see...

Let's see, the last two months, in no particular order. UHGPGA club Christmas party... with a surprise. We walk in, and who else do we see but Shadd and Tina Heaston. Participants of the first Mitch/WOW aerobatics clinic will remember Shadd, and the outstanding hospitality he provided. At the beginning of last season, the Shadd fam moved to FL to live on a boat... Well, almost a full year later, they've returned home to Utah!

After Christmas usually comes some photos of skiing epicly deep Wasatch powder... this year, not so much. We only got one real storm cycle to speak of, which happened to coincide with the PSIA "Big Mountain Skiing" clinic that I participate in every year at Alta/Snowbird. It was phenominal, yet again. Learned some good stuff, made some new friends, and had more fun that should be allowed wearing hard plastic boots. As my second year participating in this clinic, I was also quite pleased with my improvement- last year I had some grandiose headers, which resulted in breaking the visor off my helmet not once but twice. This year I went without falling for the full two day event... and performed better than last year, too. That's improvement if you ask me.

Sticking with the skiing topic, my new position at Deer Valley is going well. Christmas was VERY busy... then it slowed way down. Now it's President's Week, and it's nearly as busy as Christmas! In addition to being the closest I've ever come to a work-aholic, I've been studying and working towards my PSIA level II certification. So far I have passed the written test, and then somehow managed to fool some VERY experienced clinicians into passing me for the skiing test. I have the final test on the 27th, the teaching exam... which should be the hardest. Everyone wish me luck, I'll certainly need it!

Other than that, it's as much 'life as usual' as it ever is... we're keeping busy and having fun whenever possible...