Freeskiing World Tour- El Colorado, Chile

During inspection I was not feeling great. With only doing one ski competition before, and it going not so well, I had mixed emotions. On top of that, being in another country and unfamiliar with the terrain made me even more nervous. In the end I decided instead of scaring the shit out of my self or worse getting hurt again, I would choose a line I was positive I could stomp and ski it as fast as possible. Day 1 went great, I was 4th and did exactly what I planed. I had a blast cheering on all my friends. Everyone threw down and skied so well. I met tons of people and was so happy to see everyone so stoked. I ended up placing 9th going into day 2. I figured I now have nothing to loose so I better step it up on day 2. All in all, It was a beautiful fun day but I was happy when it was over. We all called it a night and tried to get some sleep.

We woke up early on day 2 for our inspection run. Once again it was a perfect blue bird day and everyone was amped for their run! I was unusually calm. My confidence had gone up leaps from the day before. I decided I didn’t travel this far to stress so I’m going to enjoy my self no matter what happens. So while we waited at the start gate I rocked out to my music until they sent the first girl. I was second so I told everyone “good luck, can’t wait to hug you all at the bottom!” There was just one air in the middle of my line I had been trying to visualize all morning. I was a little sketched out because the snow receded from the rocks so you had to go fast and ollie before the cliff. I felt great dropping in. My music was blasting and I was skiing fast and strong. I didn’t hesitate at all and stomped my air! It felt great! I danced the rest of the way down.

After cheering on the rest of the girls I made my way over to the open bar where I proceeded to down smirnoff ginger’s and take photos with everyone at the event. I ended up placing 6th, I’ll take it!  Of course,  we partied and danced our faces off that night. The next morning Drew Stocklein, who won the mens, bought a $75 dollar bottle of champaign to help our hang overs.