Shooting Anchors on Ice!

A big thank you once again to everyone who sent me comments about my Anchors on Ice piece. Tony and I headed to Sierra Summit a couple of weeks ago with one of our amazing photographers, Kelly Teel, and it was a blast! Now I’ve never been on skis and the last time I snowboarded was in high school, so needless to say I was a little nervous about the experience. I guess once you get older you realize how badly you can hurt yourself. We went up on a Tuesday night and stayed through Wednesday. The weather was absolutely perfect and the mountain was absolutely beautiful.

Sierra Summit

Kelly in action shooting Tony's piece

Since Tony and I had to share Kelly, we shot our stories separately. While Tony was learning to ski like a pro with Kelly, I was off with my snowboarding instructor trying to stay upright. My instructor has been snowboarding for 10 years and he definitely knew what he was doing. He was very patient and spent a good four hours with me on the beginner and intermediate bunny hills (hey, slow and steady is the way to go!).

Me with my Instructor

Tony with his instructor team and Kelly

I learned all over again how to walk with my snowboard on, which is very awkward in itself, how to go down the hill backwards, frontwards, sideways, you name it, we did it! I was thoroughly exhausted by the end of the day, and had used muscles I never even knew existed. My legs were incredibly sore, but the fun was so worth it! I feel confident that if I headed to the slopes again, I would be able to get down an easy run without a problem. I’ll let you know how that goes…

Once again a big thank you to everyone at Sierra Summit and some more thank you’s go to Kelly Teel, for shooting such a great piece, and to Ryan Foran for his help in the editing process!