Carol on Pano

Happy Thanksgiving! Second day teaching at Monarch Mountain. Looking forward to another great day.

Rick

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Gunnar gettin on pioneer lift

Who who! Here we go!!

Rick

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First run Monarch view

Rick

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Decided to go to Amy's birthday party

Good times !!!

Rick

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Post once to many

I think this is so cool! I can post to most of my blogs and social media just by sending an email to my Posterous account. It seems really quite simple, but it's taken me a while to set up some of the places I want to post to. Some were simpler than others to set up.

Here's a list of places I'm sending this particular post to:

• www.rickboucher.com 
• www.twitter.com/ricky__b
• my Facebook profile
• htttp://rickboucher.blogspot.com
• http://rickboucher.wordpress.com
• www.mysnowpro.com/rickyb
• my Picassa account
• my YouTube account
• http://rickyb.posterous.com/

Couple of concerns I have though, it sounds like Posterous stores pictures, videos, etc. for you and Posterous tends to want to insert a line or two of text at the bottom of posts to show you're using it. Some of the settings seem to allow you to remove that "feature." About the pictures and video storage, I suppose that could be considered a good thing.

Something else I'm wondering about is how it's going to handle photos. I'm using Gmail, and I'm not seeing how I can insert a photo inline rather than attach it. Perhaps it'll be different on my iPhone.

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Send Once Post to Many

With the growth of social networking and the many new blogs/networks one can join to talk about skiing and snowsports instructing, I've been trying to find a way to simply enter blog and social network once and have the entry posted to all the different locations. Here's a list of all the places I'd like a single post to show up:

1. Self-Hosted Wordpress blog (www.rickboucher.com)
2. Wordpress blog (rickboucher.wordpress.com)
3. Blogger (rickboucher.blogspot.com)
4. My Facebook personal profile
5. Twitter (@ricky__b)
6. My Snow Pro (mysnowpro.com)
7. Ski Pro Connect (skiproconnect.com)
8. My Monarch Space (Monarch's community space)
9. My personal My Monarch Space (www.mymonarchspace.com)
10. YouTube (www.youtube.com/rickboucher)
11. Ski Sensei (www.skisensei.com)
12. Posterous (rickyb.posterous.com)
13. Flickr
14. Picassa

I numbered them on purpose, and I think there might be others that I'm forgetting. (I'll come back and add them if I remember them later.)

So far I've found one way to post to at least half of the above list. Posterous allows you to post to many locations just by sending email to your Posterous account. It even allows you to send to just one, some, or all depending the email address you use.

There are a couple of reasons I'm cautious about Posterous:

1. It stores images and video on their system
2. for many of the services above Posterous inserts a promotional footer
3. any more?

Test post from my mobile device. Send away!

Image of Photo and Caption

Cool picture of me appeared in The Mountain Mail yesterday. The powder has been awesome at Monarch. Eric Ramsey has been taking pictures and I'm very happy to go along. This one ended up on 9 News and in the local paper. I think he likes how I can ski right at him without hitting him and the plastic things on my fingers that define my gloves. Actually this wasn't better powder than yesterday. This picture was taken about four days ago. The powder has been getting better and better everyday!

It's hard to teach lessons on the beginner hill when there is so much great powder on the mountain. But it's all good. Those of us who have been around awhile know where the great powder stashes are even after the 9 am crowd mashes up the hill.

The tree skiiing is gettin' really good these days at Monarch. I'll tell you about the Mirage trees and the Zipper cliffs, but if you really want to know where the great stashes are you'll just have to try and keep up. Then there's the Cat Skiing and Mirkwood. Mirkwood is really great if you can get a ride up. I'm getting lazy these days where I don't like to hike so much when the powder is so awesome inbounds.

Look me up. I'll show you where to go.

I'm In An Article!

Last week I was asked to teach a lesson for marketing purposes. Our marketing director had arranged the lesson for a writer that writes for the Rocky Mountain News. Here is a link to the article as it appeard in an online journal called Real Vail. Click here.

I really enjoyed meeting Luis and Patrina. I know I had fun.

New Terminology

I had a returning student (Steven Owen) a few days ago that asked me to help him find an "imperceptible trigger." I thought that was so cool. I hope to use these words in future lessons. I think what he was seeing was the smoothness of good skiers and wants to emulate how good they look going from one turn to the next, the "imperceptible trigger." 

When he told me that he was looking for the imperceptible trigger it made me think of using the feet and legs to start a turn. Steve was using old school hopping, rotary push-off kinds of moves with the initial turning force coming from his upper body. Can you see it?

I told him that I was once in a clinic with Bob Barnes (Encylopidia of Skiing Barnes) where he told me that the worst movement you can do with your feet in skiing is better than the best movement you can do in skiing with your upper body. I suggested that even though movements in your feet are small (imperceptible) they have a huge affect on the rest of the movements that happen throughout the turn. Boot technology helps to make it so. They are designed to respond to movements we do with our feet and legs.

During the lesson we worked on ankle flexion/extension, rolling the feet to the edges and the flat place between the turns, and steering the feet/legs/thighs in the direction of the turns. These were the "imperceptible triggers" that we worked on. 

I thanked him for the cool words and hope to ski with him again someday.