Dean's Ski & Ride

first timer; from Magic carpet to linking turns in only two days!

Cadence (not Candice!) struggled at first but when the lightbulb came on it was bright, check out this video! By the end of day two she had ten linked turns, (toe-heel, and back, heel-toe). Ten-ish seems about the threshold to the (very) counter-intuitive, and entirely neccessary, linked turns.

fast pre-teens! and mOM & dAD, at Beaver Creek

Huge improvements over three days of great weather, this gang was on fire!

Vail Group, "can we go faster?"

13 y.o. gettin' ahead of his skis, excellent mono-boarder, and a few Level 5-6 skiers improving with every run!

Vail, ski & ride birthday party

12 people, Kurt's birthday party group, he turned 39 "for the third time...".

"Wow, Dean was versatile, the video, his ski abilities, giving us both skiing and snowboard tips all day, and all the while shooting video, riding backwards and all. We love the editing and music! Next season, we will hire him again for sure, and maybe get him on his snowboard next time! A GREAT value for all he did!"

-- Julie Andreison

(Julie is Kurt's fiancee who organized the trip, strawberry blonde in the video)

Carving rails, ski in my tracks...

Vincent's third day and he was already carving and staying in my tracks perfectly; a great student and skier! The effect of me skiing backwards and shooting the skier silhouetted before the sun has become my "signiture shot" of sorts:

L1 snowboarding, Nice Heel to Toe Solution at Copper Mountain

My buddy's fiancee Rachel could not make a toe-side turn (transition from heel edge) and we fixed it.

** Disclaimer and Warning**

Learning from a spouse, family member, or partner of any kind, is detrimental to the learning process and your relationship to one another, and thus, is not recommended ;-)

Advanced Ski, Bumps, Carving, Breckenridge

Mixed group, Dad was already very good, daughter needed a little help on bumps, son super fast on groomed, no problem riding switch (backwards) only needed a pointer or two on bumps; family of badasses all!

Beaver Creek Powder Day, L6 Ski

Powder takes a little know-how, but if you have the basics you'll be skiing glades* in no time; this was Rose and Finn's first time tree skiing...

*glades are widely spaced trees; fresh snow accumulates better and for longer 'in the trees'.

Beaver Creek beginner ski kids, bunny slopes to red buffalo to rose bowl over two warm spring days

The learning area at BC is at the top of a gondola, so the views are wonderful! Micah and Jackson were troupers, quick to learn, and funny! Both hamming it up for the camera.

2013 Old School Phone Cam!

Powder day in Vail's deservidly famous bowls. No trees, steep, never groomed, mmmmm, mmm.

tiger tours snowmobile promo video

Camera mounted on sled nose, Ten Mile Range, Colorado. Want to book a snowmobile trip with video like this? And / or drone video? I have discounts and package deals to several adventure companies in Vail, Breck, Winter Park, and Steamboat.

Keystone * powder * trees * showoff

Me on two feet of overnight powder; on a Feb. Tuesday the runs were empty, mmmmm, mmm, mm!

Promo Winter Park / Mary Jane

They only used seconds from this but for me it was a full day of flying, this is condensed from about four hours of flight time.

Loveland Pass - Late Day Tracks

Heading home from an A-Basin lesson on a Bluebird Day (blue skies, below freezing, and big overnight powder snow) it was late enough that I was free to fly close to the surface, tracks, and ridges without fear of buggin' or injuring snowriders.

Views of the Continental Divide, Loveland Ski Area, Arapahoe Basin and Keystone Ski Areas, The Ten Mile Range, and far off in the distance, Breckenridge.

This drone is so quiet the back-country skier on the ridge doesn't even look up.