Summer Ski Stoke.

A ski magazine in my mailbox? It's late June. What? Did it get lost back in March and only now get delivered? Nope. That's how The Ski Journal brings it. Quarterly ski stoke delivered directly to your door - even in mid summer. While most folks are mountain biking, fly fishing, surfing and golfing, there is a select group of us out there who no matter how much fun summer can be we would trade it for one run down a 3000 foot vertical face with 24 inches of blower.

Last spring The Ski Journal sent me to Moretown, Vermont to shoot a very local ski area named Cosmic Hill. You won't find Cosmic on any map or Ski Vermont website. You won't see anyone sporting an old lift ticket from Cosmic on a vintage '82 CB Sports red with blue stripe jacket either. You see, Cosmic Hill is Peter Avidesian's personal ski area. Yep, right there in his backyard is a T-Bar and 175 feet of vertical bliss. Peter even manufactures his own snowmaking guns just in case mother nature doesn't provide enough of the goods. My day there proved to be a perfect spring afternoon (although it was very early March - much to early for a spring day) and the skiing was fun. Even after I finished shooting I asked Peter to keep the lift spinning for an extra couple of laps.

The tear from the magazine.

Portrait of Peter A. and his bullwheel, which happens to be located in his driveway.

Justin R. enjoying the T-bar.

You are the liftline when it's your own personal ski area.

The Godfather Project.

In a recent post I shamelessly plugged the worlds smallest published photo.  Well Men's Journal has posted the article online and you can now read it and see the image.  You can read it HERE.

That's a Wrap Folks.

Better late than never, but my '08-'09 ski photography season is now complete. This past Thursday writer Mike Horn and I took a drive over to North Conway, New Hampshire to interview and shoot legendary climber Rick Wilcox. Rick was the first person I've met who has summited Everest. He accomplished that in 1991. The portrait of Rick finished up a feature Mike and I have been working on since February in Colorado. Unfortunately I can't post any of the images from the shoot with Rick but will definitely post the story when it is published. Instead I'll leave you with another Utah ski image from my participation in the Ski Salt Lake Shootout.

Jack Nelson pointing it, Brighton Backcountry, Utah.

Men's Journal again.

In a funny shameless plug, I have what might be the smallest published photo in Men's Journal history.  In this months issue I have a very small photo in the Letter From the Editor section.  I took this shot of the magazines editor Brad Wieners and his son last summer while on assignment for Men's Journal covering Brad up at the Craftsbury Rowing Center.  You can see that blog post HERE.

My photo is the smaller of the two. ha.