Welcome to Chez Paul's SkiingPage!
My highest athletic passion is alpine skiing. Yes, I am totally blind and ski untethered, and started learning to ski after I had gone blind. To illustrate my passion for alpine skiing, for the last six seasons, I have used all my generous leave from Uncle Sam to fly out west a few times and ski for about a month, and I have adventured from beyond sticking to the groomers to warming up on the Blue/Black groomers and then tackling challenges like moguls, chutes, off-piste terrain, traversing into/onto cornices, and boot-packing it to powder heaven! While I've enjoyed skiing at other resorts in my fourteen seasons (as of March 8, 2009) -- but who's counting? --, some of my favorites thus far for steeps and deeps are Alta/Snowbird, Solitude, & Snowbasin in Utah, Jackson Hole in Wyoming, and Kirkwood in California. Please enjoy the photos and video clips below from my 2005-06 through 2008-09 ski seasons. I'll leave you with a quote from Tom, one of my guides from Park City, utah, "Skiing with Paul is a kick in the pants!"
New 2008-09 Ski Season Photo/VideoClips
Please browse this season's video clips (a.k.a., "vids"), especially the one taken of some of us disabled skiers participating at the first-ever Adaptive Division of the Jackson Hole Steep & Deep Camp, by visiting the following link:
BlindSkierDude's recent vids on MotionBox.com
2007-08 Ski Season Photos/VideoClips
Please view the various photos/VideoClips in the following list of links:
- Alta01
- Alta02
- Alta03
- Alta04
- Alta05
- Alta06
- Alta07
- Alta08
- Alta09
- Alta10
- Alta11
- Alta12
- Alta13
- Alta14
- JHMR Bumps VideoClip1c
- JHMR Bumps VideoClip2c
- Thunder Bumps VideoClip, a bump run under the Thunder lift -- To play this clip, it seems necessary to download it and then to play it with Windows Media Player.
- Ranger
- South Colter, Shot#1
- South Colter, Shot#2
- South Colter, Shot#3
- South Colter, Shot#4
- South Colter, Shot#5
2006-07 Ski Season Photos/VideoClips
Please view the various photos/VideoClips by following this link and subdirectories: Directory of 2006-07 Ski Season Photos/VideoClips
Powder-Day Photos at Solitude, UT on 12/29/2005
Thanks to Lori and Tom Beach for the guiding and photography!
Powder-Day Photos at Kirkwood, CA During MLK Week 1/2006
Thanks to Jeff Dean for the guiding and photography!
