Mark Raymond

Hellbents

2011-03-19T15:37:00.001-07:00

Here's some pics of my ski's

Core Shot
Bases- worst scratch and core shot
Sidewall flaking- this is the worst spot

Top Sheet and Bindings

2009-12-23T09:13:00.000-08:00

hello hello. I'm sitting in bed with nancy and all of youbums who are out of town should come here too!!! we are all very angry with you. but anyways, not much happening in my life right now. I got a concussion skiing so I pretty much have to sit at home all weekand do nothing so i don't somehow hurt my head again. so you should call me because I'm uber bored!!!! and scotty,you never called me back like you said you would and I am quite distraught! yup, thats all.

2009-12-01T17:43:00.001-08:00

milk mile, very epic. bunch of guys puking on an icy track

2009-09-05T17:13:00.001-07:00

I finished my eagle scout project!! A lot of hard work and hours spent. Heres some pics of the finished products. We just did three bridges.

2009-08-29T21:39:00.000-07:00

this is kind of cool...

2009-07-21T13:28:00.001-07:00

Isabella I'm updating my blog just for you. Heres some pictures of the biking section in the triathlon.

Utah Trip

2009-06-20T23:02:00.000-07:00

We did so much stuff over our trip to Utah that I really can't describe it all. To summarize though we climbed Kings peak, went to moab, biked on a lot of slick rock, went cliff jumping in left hand, and went to 7 peaks.

DRCS

2009-04-07T20:14:00.000-07:00

Scott E... was your cliff this big?

2009-03-31T19:30:00.000-07:00

Sick Powder day on Monday!! There was nobody up there! Hey, scott, I dropped this cliff and stuck it, it was pretty sweet. You should try it if you ever come over.

2009-02-16T18:25:00.001-08:00

Hey, I finally got the guts to do it. I stuck my first one and caught my edge on some crust on the second one. Unfortunetly we only filmed the second. oh well, still looks cool.

2009-02-15T14:21:00.000-08:00

Cool Picture I took of Ross yesterday on bridger, its a fun gap jump. I want his ski's!

2009-01-15T15:50:00.000-08:00

hey, sorry I haven't updated in a while but life hasn't been all that busy. sorry scott, more good snow at bridger. talk you all later!

2008-11-28T19:27:00.000-08:00

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I haven't posted for a while and life has been pretty interesting. Besides school and going skiing occasionally to make Scott jealous the holidays have been the only major event. oh, and I had a surprise birthday party which was amazing because I wasn't expecting it all. I was very shocked. Yesterday mom and I did the "huffing for stuffing" run and that was pretty fun. After that we went on the traditional Christmas tree hunt up by hylite. I found it very pathetic how small our family picture has shrunk. After getting a tree, doing some avi training with Jacob, and sledding down once (me and Jake had the really small pink sled so that the only way we could both fit on was if we faced each other with one person going backwards. Needless to say it was interesting) we came home to have Thanksgiving dinner with the Tenglesons. Today Jacob and I went up to Bridger. Scott, I really hate to have to tell you this but it was another epic powder day at Bridger Bowl. We went up the ridge to Super Coulior and it was definitely the best snow that I've ever skied there. It was kind of scary because it was sluffing a lot but it was still so much fun to ski out. Fresh powder tracks all the way down. And I got to try out my new alpine touring gear! I absolutely love it, it makes hiking so much easier! That's pretty all that's happened lately. Lana, I posted a video of the marimba just for you. And what do you mean by that one comment on my last post, " I tagged you"?

Mountain West Classic

2008-09-29T20:27:00.001-07:00

Fine Emily, I will blog about my meets now. umm, this saturday we had a meet over in Missoula. There were a lot of people and it was definitely a faster race. I ran a personal best of 17:19 and since that pace actually felt really good I think I'm going to try to run 17 flat in Butte, which is a really fast course, and stay up with the front runners. Maybe I'll even be able to win it, wouldn't that be cool, heres some pics and a video that dad took of the meet on Saturday. See if you can pick me out in the video.

2008-09-28T15:19:00.000-07:00

umm, went skiing up at Blackmore on Tuesday, it was pretty cool. I went with some stoner college student and his dog who were up there and they seemed really nice. I didn't get any pics so thats pretty much all. Guess I'll be able to ski all months this year since I bet there will be more snow at the end of october. oh, and the epocsy fix on my ski is starting to crack and break out so I guess my AC2's are headed for the trash. oh well, I skiied on them the whole season perfectly and all of the high class expensive ski shops in Utah said it was unfixable. Maybe not fixable but it was patchable. way to go dad. Thats all for now.

Blackmore

2008-08-08T12:26:00.000-07:00

people kept on telling me to update my blog so I did. heres some pics of my trip to blackmore.

2008-07-27T20:29:00.000-07:00

well I thought I better put some pics up of where me and Dylan went when we were in Utah so here they are.

Skiing in july

2008-07-06T14:06:00.000-07:00

Well, I think I might have to call it a season now. Even though there is still a lot of snow here, by the time I get back from Utah it will probably be all gone. I skied into July though so I am happy with that. On Wednesday morning me and Dylan headed up to Bridger at 3:30 ( dad was kind enough to drive us that early in the morning) and headed up the mountain. We went up to the top of Alpine, changed into ski boots, headed up the Apron until we reached the nonexistent traverse, and then went up Hidden a little ways before we took a left up the Fourth Virtue. At the top of the virtue I unstrapped my helmet from my backpack and was holding it by the ear flap when the flap suddenly broke off. I was left standing at the top of one of Bridgers steepest, tightest chutes as I watched my helmet tumble out of sight ( I'm very annoyed about that as I now have no helmet that actually fits me). Fortunately for me the run wasn't as hard as it was made out to be by my ridge book. It wasn't as steep as it felt climbing up and the straightline at the bottom was only about thirty or forty feet long before it poured out into the gut of Hidden Gully. That was a very fun trip. Yesterday me and dad hiked up to pine creek lake because I wanted to get at least one more outing in before Utah and dad wanted to do some fishing. I do not recommend toting skis and boots up 5 miles of switchbacks in the same day as heading a mile to the base of the mountain and up the chutes. I skied the skiers right fork of something that some of the locals we talked to called the "Y". It is appropriately named as it is shaped like a Y with a big rock fin dividing the prongs at the top of Mount Black. The chute was definitely the steepest thing that I have ever skied. I was so tired going up that I didn't think that I as going to be able to summit but I made it after all. Towards the top I was really wishing that I had previously invested in climbing crampons and ice axes because it was so steep. After taking some pictures at the top I headed down the well over 45 degree steep slope. avalanche conditions weren't to bad but I did have to watch out for my sluff as it poured down behind me. once I got back down to the lake a huge thunder storm rolled in and I got pretty wet from that. I was so tired hiking back down I thought I wasn't going to make it but I eventually did. When I took my pack off at the car I felt like I was going to fall over because of the weight difference. In the pictures Mount Black is the one in the middle with a huge cliff butte at the top and a Y shaped line of snow coming down on the right side of it. I skied the prong that is on the upper left in the picture.

2008-06-13T18:44:00.000-07:00

well every body, I'm back from my trip to utah with dad. I went to snowbird for a day and they actually had just got fresh snow the night before so there was powder skiing all day long. Me and dad drove down to Moab and there I had the chance to ski off the summit of mount tukuhnikivatz. That is a 12,482 ft tall mountain in the La Sals. You can see me hiking in the first picture. The picture of my tracks are from the first day when I was just messing around at the base of the mountain( well, I guess side actually)because of increased avalanche danger up on the main mountain The next day I left at 6:30, made the summit before 9, and then skied the face that is facing straight and to the left in the picture.I got some great pics from the top. talk to everyone later! keep leaving comments, I love reading them!

ya,skiing!

2008-05-17T16:26:00.000-07:00

Well every one, I only got to go skiing three times this week. I really wish that I had found this place earlier so I could have done some more skiing. Oh well, I got to ski three times more this week then anyone else in our family and I also got some great pics and mom took a random video of me skiing down. I know that I am going to the beartooth to ski on memorial day weekend and I might also go to Blackmore peak with this guy that I know. I also will probably go up to Bridger sometime so I have at least two more times to ski this season. Guess what, I just got a $300-500 dollar pair of boots for$40. I also got 2 free pairs of ski poles, a one dollar black diamond climbing harness, 4 water bottles for 25 cents each and a free radio/LED light. Good stuff, huh.
Nancy, you need to update your blog! It hasn't changed for about a year now and I check it pretty much every day. Get a move on! Talk to you later!

to many pics and videos!

2008-04-06T11:28:00.000-07:00

I have so many photos and other things that I want to show everybody that I can't fit them all on the blog. Here are some of my favorites including the video and pics of me eating it off of DRCS (thats the cliff in the north bowl with all of the cliff signs above). The drop wasn't acually as big as I thought it would be and the landing was really soft. I was just a little to far back to land it properly. I also really like the videos and pictures of Dillon hitting stuff. Oh and by the way, all of these were taken on a 17 inch powder day. Yah! Fresh tracks and face shots all day long. Have fun doing whatever adults do!

2008-03-12T09:37:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!
All the snow is melting but there is still enough for Justin to go big. Enjoy the videos.

PS I have hit everything show here (I acually showed Justin all of these) but I have to film so I'm not in the movies.

2008-02-24T13:39:00.000-08:00

Yes Lana, There is no point in even having a cool skiing video competition because I have already won. Mom and Dad didn't believe me when I said that my jump over the swing set is perfectly safe but it turned out that I was right as usual. In the pictures the one with my skis in the bottom is the top of "Leo's Lion" and the wider chute is the lower right exit of Leo's. The thinner chute with Luca sitting at the bottom is "Wombat Sally". The other is a random cliff that is fun to hit.

2008-02-17T18:49:00.000-08:00

Hi everybody,

Sorry, I don't have any good pictures or videos yet but I will get them soon. I did the King and Queen of the Ridge this weekend and I decided it is more like the King and Queen of who can physically destroy their muscles the most in 5 hours. Since I haven't done this competition before this year I decided to just take it easy and just see what it was like. This is why I dropped out after 12 laps instead of going all the way and beating this years king who only had a easy 26 hikes. Ha Ha, maybe next year, Not. Guess what? If you go to www.bridgerbowl.com and click on the Daily video link and then select the 16th on the calender next to the video screen you will get a video starring I Mark Raymond for a whole 1 second! Right after the part where it shows a sign that says "Community Race Series" on it there is a guy in a orange coat. That's me! And right after that when they show all of the hikers I am the hiker who is second from the top of the pack and is digging his poles in weirdly. I think it is pretty cool. Going to the desert competition the girls made a delicious French chocolate custard of which I was most amazed. Ben and I are still working on our come back. Current score: Savanah,Izzy and Maggie-4, Mark and Ben-2.

2008-02-10T17:10:00.000-08:00

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Hello everybody,
Doesn't my ski look much better? Dad is the genius who fixed what four different ski shops all said was unrepairable. I've skied on it twice now and it seems to be holding up all right. This Saturday I tried to go into a chute that I had previously skied in better conditions. I ended up having my edge stick in slushy snow when I tried to turn. This ended nicely with me not falling off the huge cliff to my right or tumbling down the narrow rocky chute on my left both of which undoubtedly I would have sustained substantial injuries to my person if I had fallen down either. Instead I had a very endearing bonding moment with the tree in front of me from which I only got a cut up mouth and chin. My friends and I have been doing a little filming up on the slopes lately so I will try to get a cool video of me eating it off some stuff on this blog as soon as possible. I will also post some pictures of the insane stuff we have been skiing. Wondering whats with the pie? Well to make a long story short, me and my friend Ben Rich got into a cake/dessert contest with some girls. We actually were just joking when we agreed to the competition so we were a little bit shocked when the girls brought a cake into advisory on Monday morning. Deciding that we couldn't let the girls win and uphold the masculine act of not being able to cook we retaliated with a blueberry pie on Thursday. More updates on this fight to the death will be presented in further posts. Since I have a boring life and have used all my stories I guess that I will wrap this post up. Goodbye until something else happens that I think is worth writing about. Oh guess what? I figured that you can moderate the comments on your blog but I guess that doesn't really apply to me since no one leaves comments anyways. It would be so nice to get to try it out though. Bye!

Oh my poor ski!!!!

2008-01-20T13:47:00.000-08:00

I blew out the edge of my ski.Yep, totally destroyed it. Acually I take that back, I can still ski on it if I use it as my left ski but it looks like it is in pretty bad shape. I dropped a pretty small six footer to softly right on to a big sharp rock. The moment I hit I new it was bad but I didn't think it was as bad as blowing out my edge. When I got down to the bottom of the hill I checked my ski and WOW!, I have a four in hole in the base of my ski. I was pretty shocked. Check out the pictures and tell me what you think.

My ski pics are better then Lana's!

2008-01-13T11:45:00.001-08:00

Hello hello,
I haven't written from awhile just because Leslie made me start this blog but then she didn't explain how to access it by myself so I haven't been able to log on. Actually the only reason I'm typing this is because me and Lana were having a cool ski picture competition and it is easier to post pictures here then send them to here by email. Also this way everyone can admit I have cooler pics then she does.

Leslie is mean cruel, and abusive

2007-11-12T18:42:00.000-08:00

and she is also typing this...

Let's see. Today we had a dodge ball tournament this morning, which we won. School is boring. I don't want to do this blog, but Leslie is making me. So I guess I might post one eventually by myself. For all I care, Nancy has won the challenge that has never existed.\

Hi Mike!

That's it.