Ian Ray Photography » Skiing

Build A Booter Sunday

bangor — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:17:19 +0000

Couple photos from the weekend before last. Snow wasn’t so great, so we built a ridiculous road gap for Adam to hit. Something like 50 feet point to point, which involved an absolutely retarded run in through a drainage ditch combined with a tow in from Canadian Chris in his Pathfinder to clear. The jump photo doesn’t do justice to how big this thing was – not a height jump, all about the distance.

We might build this one up again, I’ve got another couple angles I want to try shooting from if I can find a climbing harness and some rope.

And here’s the video Adam put together from the GoPro HD footage that he got, which turned out super sick.

Rainy Day Road Gap from Adam Newhard on Vimeo.

December

bangor — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:11:57 +0000

December’s been nuts. I barely shook off the food coma from Thanksgiving before I was back on the road…… I think I’ve racked up over 4,000 miles this month alone.

Within the past 3 weeks, I’ve been from Rochester to: Albany > Jay Peak > Albany > Rochester for a week > Albany > Mount Snow > Albany > Jiminy Peak > Albany > Killington > Albany > Christmas with the family > Mount Snow…… and there’s a bunch of other random mini trips in there as well….. the car’s been in the shop for the past 2 days recovering!

Some work from the past couple of weeks:

Evan Grott getting deep @ Killington 12/22/08

If this photo of Steve doesn’t explain how deep it was, I don’t know what will. 12/22/08

Evan Grott levitates skis with his mind.

Evan Grott – aka “The Talent”

Highmount Ski Resort

bangor — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:06:28 +0000

I stumbled upon an abandonded ski resort yesterday called Highmount, turns out it’s a stone’s throw from Bellayre Mtn. (We’re in the western part of the Catskills, of upstate NY, for those of you who don’t know)

Here’s a map, zoom in and go to aerial image to see it.

This is an excerpt of one panorama I shot while I’m up there. Not sure if it’s the best one out of what I shot, but it was the easiest to stitch together earlier today:

I always find abandonded ski resorts fascinating. Most are relics of the heyday that skiing had in the 80’s; having not researched it much yet, I’d have to gamble Highmount closed in the early 90’s. There’s a bunch of engravings on the top station tower from ‘95 and ‘98, which I don’t think could have been made while the resort was open. If anybody knows anything about Highmount, let me know!

Back in town.

bangor — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:01:50 +0000

Shot this last weekend at the Windham spring rail jam, 2nd year in a row showing up to that one.

I’m back in town (home), finally got the car fixed, and finally have some free time. w00t!