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Sunday it was 91 air and 79 water at Spring Mountain Ski Ranch in Arizona.

Spring Mountain Ski Ranch has a tournament Sept 23 & 24th. You are about 1 1/2 hours from Scottsdale. I will be there all week long and could pull you a set or two. Russell

I am glad to be able to follow an event that is on the other side of the world. They keep stating that Moomba is the largest and most prestigious event in the world. However this webcast makes me want to turn it off! Commercials right up until the skier is pulling out for the gates. They are interviewing athletes right after they have finished skiing and they either play commercials or have a camera angle that is behind the interviewer. Something will have to change in order for me to want to tune in again for this event. I agree that we are spoiled with TWBC, they certainly have done an excellent job at presenting our sport exceptionally well. Thank you TWBC

This Is the strangest webcast ever. Anytime they are not in the course they play commercial's while they continue to over talk them. The camera work from the boat is so bouncy it almost makes me nauseous.

This is a tough one for sure. We held 2 tournaments this last year after not having any at our site for over 10 years. We were excited to have more this coming year but our HOA is gong to have a hard time with taking on this liability. Also, we now would need to purchase additional insurance over the sanctioning fees that we would already be paying? That is BS for sure, maybe the sanction fees need to be reduced then.

It has been over 10 years since Spring Mountain Ski Ranch has held a tournament. This last weekend brings back to life SMSR. Perfect conditions and great people. We are proud of what we have done at the property and I just wanted to share with the ski community.

Not a bad weekend in AZ!

Monday at Spring Mountain Ski Ranch In Buckeye, AZ Air was 91 and Water 65

Buckeye, Arizona

Spring Mountain Ski Ranch Buckeye, Arizona

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January 1st 2020 at Spring Mountain Ski Ranch in Arizona. 65 air and 54 Water. Great way to start the year off......

Ha ha @Horton just think of it this way, anyone could get several of them for the same price as any one of the upper end slalom skis.

@Horton It really does not get much easier than The DJI Mavic. It folds up and is super easy to pack around. as a beginner it has a bunch of fail safe functions built in and as you get a bit better at flying the sport mode will keep up and pass the boat at a max speed of 40 mph. After some time of flying you will find that there are other controller apps like Litchi that will allow you to program in way points by the simple touch of the screen that allow full autonomous flight.

There's only 1 explanation "lack of attention" :)

Many of you may know this jump since it came from Warman Lake. Sad to see it go but somehow I think it will get more use down south.

Tournament a Buchli on the 10th and Santan on the 11th of June. http://www.usawaterski.org/rankings/View-TournamentsHQ.asp?pvar=TourInfo&TourID=17W116&olrds=enabled&rg=1&sl=on&tr=on&ju=on&wb=&ws=&wu=&bf=&kb=&hy=&sExclude= http://www.usawaterski.org/rankings/View-TournamentsHQ.asp?pvar=TourInfo&TourID=17W147&olrds=enabled&rg=1&sl=on&tr=on&ju=on&wb=&ws=&wu=&bf=&kb=&hy=&sExclude=

Arizona over the week end was pretty nice. Air just shy of 70 and water about 64. 6 sets in.

OK granted this just sold about a year ago for about half. http://seattle.curbed.com/2016/7/18/12209624/man-made-water-skier-lake-olympia-house

I had met Andy only one time in my life but I will never forget the experience. It was 1980 and being a young want to be water skier, I decided to book some lessons at Liz Allen’s ski school in Florida. Now I had never been on a plane before nor had I ever been to the east coast. When I booked my time there I was reassured that someone would pick me up at the airport once I landed in town. I was extremely anxious for my experiences at Ski School. Never once did I ask how I was going to “picked up” at the airport, but had all the faith in the world that someone would be there for me. Once I landed and got off the plane I realized that I never inquired as to how I was going to know who was picking me up and of course just figured it would be one of the workers of the ski school. I de-boarded the plane, and no one was there, so I proceed to baggage claim and patiently wait for my ski to come down the oversize Shute. Only then did someone approach me and say “are you Russell?” I being the young naive fool that I was just assumed this was one of the workers of the ski school. We proceeded to board the van and head towards the school. A short time later this worker this worker stated that they were hungry and would I mind if we stopped at McDonalds to get some food. I of course after flying across the country was ready so I was completely on board with this stop. Now we are in the line at McDonalds waiting to order and it finally hits me that I have never introduced myself nor has he. So I say “I didn’t catch your name”. This is the point that he politely looks at me and Says “Um, I’m Andy Mapple” Now this is about the time that I realize that I am a completely different world now and I have just been picked up by the guy that just had won the worlds. Needless to say he took it quite well and over the next several weeks he was quite helpful with showing me how to tune skis and was always polite and cordial. I always figured that If I had the chance I would remind him of this event and express my complete embarrassment.

This is a short clip taken by Blaze Grubbs during the Western Regional Championships.

For any of the skiers that attended the Western Championships and did not get a chance to view your photos here is a link that you can still view and order Photos from. If you order your photos you actually receive a link to down load the digital copies that you can do whatever you like with. Here is the link: http://rwimagery.pixieset.com/

Oh man that sucks. Sorry about your injury and lets hope for a speedy recovery.

That's the dumbest question ever! the answer to everything in life is "Ski More" and certainly if it's before mowing.