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XLIX from The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda

¿Cuando veo de nuevo el mar

el mar me ha visto o no me ha visto?

¿Por qué me preguntan las olas

lo mismo que yo les pregunto?

¿Y por qué golpean la roca

con tanto entusiasmo perdido?

¿No se cansan de repetir

su declaración a la arena?

When I see the sea once more

Will the sea have seen or not seen me?

Why do the waves ask me

the same questions I ask them?

And why do they strike the rock?

with so much wasted passion?

Don’t they get tired of repeating

their declaration to the sand?

Roxy Pop Drop on Powder.com

Roxy camper and journalist Vanessa Pierce wrote a great piece on the camp for Powder.com.  There’s also a photo gallery with never before published pictures by Lynsey Dyer.

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Here’s one of our youngest camper, Liv-Annika Stevenson (7).

 

 

 

 

 

photo by Lynsey Dyer

 

Here’s an excerpt from the story:

 

"You’ve got to do a Pinwheel," says Olympic silver medalist Shannon Bahrke as she overhears Roxy Pop Drop coach Caroline Gleich and I pondering our next trick at the Olympic Park splash pool in Park City, Utah.

"A Pinwheel, oh yeah," says Gleich. "So all you have to do is a back flip and I’ll do a front flip." No big deal. Except, we had to do it together. From the top of the "single" ramp at the splash pool, Gleich and I held hands. "Let go, let go, let go," she says as we pick up speed and are about to hit the tranny. No big deal.

 

To read the rest of the story and check out the action, go to:

http://www.powdermag.com/features/news/roxy-pop-drop-challenging-girls-at-aerial-ramps/

Seventeen Mag

This spring, I received a call from photographer Alexa Miller, to do a shoot for Seventeen magazine.  She needed a fun, group, nighttime shot, and wanted some recommendations for location and help with additional models.  I thought a bowling alley would be the perfect place to do the shoot, so I told her about the Ritz, a local Salt Lake alley that I had bowled at a few times.  The next day, the shoot came together, and she just got a full-page in this month’s (August) issue and I got an afternoon of free bowling!

You can check out the shot on her blog:

http://alexamiller.blogspot.com/2008/07/seventeen-magazine-tearsheet.html

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Here are some of the other out-takes:

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Roxy Pop Drop 2008

It’s been almost a month since I’ve updated.  Life has been crazy busy with 19-credit hours at the U of U, coaching at the ramps, weddings, parades, art festivals, and all the other exciting things that make me run around like a chicken with my head cut off.

We had 19 girls come out and jump, making the camp one of the biggest all girl’s freeride camps in the history of the Utah Olympic Park.  The girls had so much fun, and in three days, many of the girls had mastered 360s and front flips off the ramps.  It was inspiring to see so much progress; the big girls and the little girls both pushed each other.  Our youngest was 6-Liv-Annika from Southern California, and Courtney, 29, came down from Jackson Hole to participate.  Other athletes included big mountain rockstar Lynsey Dyer and Mallory Ayres from Skiing magazine.  Be sure to check out her write-up about the camp, and a Q&A with yours truly:

  http://www.skinet.com/article.jsp?ID=1000062557

A big thanks to our sponsors: shejumps.org, SkullCandy, Cole Sport, Colestone, and, of course, Roxy.  Also, I want to give a shout out to our rad coaching staff: Olivia Akerley, Elise Borelli, and MC Waryas. 

Here are some photos:

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Roxy Pop Drop Video

Check out this video from last year’s event: