Over the winter I had the great experience of working for the Alpine Meadows/Homewood Mountain Resort marketing department. I’d always secretly wanted to work at a ski hill, but to be able to write and shoot while I was at it instead of cleaning toilets was icing on the cake. Below are photos from powder days, parties, races and competitions that I got to shoot over the course of the winter.
My first powder day at Alpine; boss told me to go skiing.
The view from the top: Looking south towards Little Alaska and Twin Peaks.
Fun at the Icebar.
Dropping in: The Beaver Belt Banzai.
Beaver Belt Banzai.
Holshot Tour.
Dude, where’s my ski? The Holeshot Tour.
Sick and Twister Big Air at Homewood.
Is he throwing me the peace sign?
The return of powder: After a dry January, winter weather returned in a big way.
Rachael getting crazy with it in Homewood Powder.
Yeah, it was good.
A telemark competition at Alpine Meadows.
At Keyhole.
Below the Buttress.
Below the buttress.
Take the Lake got snowed out, like so many other things in March, but we had a rail jam anyway.
The Red Bull Schlittentag was an insane sledding event. If you zoom in on the flying piece in the upper-right hand part of the photo, I think that sums it up.
Trains Freestyle, High Fives Foundation
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Brilliant pix there. Wish we’d had that much snow this season!
Thanks, the snow was amazing this year.
Have a look at http://www.richardbaybutt.blogspot.com/ for a photographic record of a working season in La Plagne.