Bear Valley Back Country Ski/Snowboard Trip

The 2009/2010 ski season came finally to an end late May with the last trip to Bear Valley. We started the weekend by getting the equipments (snow shoes, beacons...) to MAS at Bear Valley Village.

On Sunday not so early morning, we hiked up Super Cub, Spring Gap to the top of Porridge bowl, where the kids warmed up on the cornice.

We then, dropped Cliff Run to reach Mickey's meadow.

Since the snow was getting too wet on that side of the mountain, we made some fun runs from the top of Snoopy Dog hill.

The video was shot with an iPod nano and edited with Final Cup Pro. Enjoy.

Music from The National, Song England.

Bear Valley Back Country Trip - May 2010

For the last trip at Bear Valley, we hiked up to the top of the ski resort with snow shoes. It took us about 1 hour. Benoit and Lucas warmed up by jumping the cornice. We finished up the day by a few runs of Snoopy hill.


Lucas is getting ready. The snow shoe ended up too large for him, so he hiked up with his ski boots. Not a problem, since the snow was icy enough.

View to the Bear Valley lodge

Lucas off the cornice. They did not jump from the highest point because of the risk that the cornice will collapse!

Benoit "Flying" off the cornice.

Benoit can be seen on the top of the hill.

Benoit Snowboarding at Bear Valley

Benoit has been snowboarding for a long time now. Check out those 2 videos, the first was shot during the nightwings events and the second by Austin Jones.





Check Benoit talking to the camera near the end of the movie.

Mikeys Meadow - Bear Valley Celebration

Bear Valley honored and celebrated Mike Young (Bear Valley sport director), who passed away just before the start of the season.

The celebration started with a mini park session with snowboard and ski instructors. Check Tyler Skivington under flip as well as Chris Johnson front flip.

Benoit decided to ski instead of snowboard and since he has skied at most a hand full of time in his life, it was epic.

The second part of the video shows the torchlight parade where skiers and snowboarder created a river of fire on Bear Valley slopes.
Finally, Sam Nilsen unveiled the Mikey's Meadow where all the instructors meet before the class.

Music is from MGMT, album Oracular Spectacular, song Kids.

Bear Valley Back Flip Session

Matt Geenlee, Corey Sciotto, James Young and Shamus have step up their game with this back flip session on Blue Jay (Bear Valley). A fairly steep kicker was built the day before that video was shot. You'll see Matt, Corey, James and Shamus (snowboard) landing their first ever back flip (barrel roll).
The video also feature a "Bail" sequence with the 1 and 1/2 flip from Corey, the not quite a flip by James, 360 attempt by Lucas (7 years) and Benoit big air crash...

Bear Valley Opening Day 2009/2010

4 feet of powder for the opening day of the 2009/2010 season at Bear Valley. Jake Casey, Benoit Rouchy, Lucas Rouchy, Tyler Doyle, Lance Doyle, Matt Greenlee, Corey Sciotto, Travis Jeitz and others show their skills on natural and man made features. Not to be miss is the front flip tentative by Matt Greenlee during his warm up run.

Bear Valley Jump Session

Benoit, Lucas and I built a jump in the backside of Bear Valley. Benoit and Lucas tried a few 180 FS and BS.
Check the back flip tentative by Lucas :)

Bear Valley Devo Team

Benoit switch jump over the log.

Check out the new pictures from last weekend at Bear Valley here.

Corey at the Bear Valley Rail Jam

Corey won a special mention at the Bear Valley Rail Jam for most improved. Corey and Benoit snowboarded together with the Devo Team.

Corey Bear Valley Rail Jam

Lucas snowboarding at Bear Valley

Lucas is taking a snowboarding class with Ally. He has snowboarded only a couple of time before.

Bear Valley - Ski trip

We spent one week on vacation at Bear Valley just before Christmas. Only few slopes were open because of the lack of snow but that did not stop us from skiing and snowboarding.

Lucas and Benoit did very good. They are ready to go to the blue slopes soon. We stayed at Tamarack lodge few miles from the Bear Valley.

Bear Valley ski resort is south of lake Tahoe. The resort is family oriented which is good with our kids.

Tamarack lodge is very close from the slopes. They were not busy so we enjoyed the lodge for almost ourselves.
The kitchen is very handy.

Benoit snowboards...

Lucas-la bomba skies.

They have one room just for kids.

Benoit is reading some Scooby-Doo story for Lucas and Claire.