Thursday, December 26, 2002
Kyocera 7135
This new Palm OS / Cel Phone Combo is rumored to be coming out any day on the Verizon network.
Palm OS, MP3 player, Analog capability, GPS etc. Unlike the new phones coming from Nokia and Sony Ericsson it doesn’t have bluetooth or a built in digital camera, but a Palm device that does analog and digital celular is a huge plus for use in the U.S.
Monday, December 23, 2002
Fleamail
It’s an interesting phenomenon........that one that occurs after a good concert......suddenly songs that you’ve heard a jillion times before all sound new and different after seeing/hearing the actual band play them, and so it is with my new interest in the Chili Peppers. Anyway here is a link to Flea’s weblog which I really enjoyed, and which might be best read from the bottom up.
Sunday, December 22, 2002
Cool Red Hot Chili Peppers Article
Check it out at LA Weekly
Park City Grand Prix Photos
Fun Contest and Red Hot Chili Peppers Show.... Check out the Photo’s
Friday, December 20, 2002
Red Hot Chili Peppers and Half Pipe Finals Tonight
Good story on yesterdays PGS in the NY Times today. And...we made the Chili Peppers web site. Everyone on the Team is in the Finals tonight for the Half Pipe which will be shown tomorrow (Saturday Dec 21) night at 10 p.m. EST, on NBC. Pictures later.
Peter
Wednesday, December 18, 2002
Team Picture Day at the Park City Grand Prix
Sunday, December 15, 2002
Breckenridge Triple Crown
Great Results in the Halfpipe today in Breckenridge. Highlights included the 1,2,3 finish from Luke, Fish, and Kinger and 900’s by youngsters Hannah Teter and Luke Mitrani. Click HERE for a bunch more photos.
Sunday, December 08, 2002
On the Bus
12:30 AM Andy Finch, Kyle Wilkens, and I, are 2 hours into the 4 hour bus ride from Tandadalen Sweden to Oslo Norway........
All the Alpine events ended yesterday so everyone else with the team already made the bus ride this morning. We stayed for Andy’s Half Pipe competition. Training for this night competition started at 4:15 this afternoon. I woke up this morning at the normal jet lag appointed time of 4 A.M. then went to breakfast at 6. I filled the rest of the morning answering email and trying to coordinate a January travel schedule….. 6 World Cups, the FIS World Championships, 2 Jeep King of the Mountain events, A Grand Prix, A Van’s Triple Crown, and the X-games, all in January are making it a juggling act for sure. At about 11:00 I went Cross Country skiing for about an hour and a half (yep…sore). It’s amazing to see all the families out on the cross-country tracks. You see parents towing babies in little sleds here with the same frequency you would see babies in strollers at the mall in the US. When I made it back, Kyle and I went to lunch and Finch did some more sleeping. After lunch we caught a sweet episode of Baywatch Hawaii then eventually made our way up to the pipe for the start of practice.
Finch was ruling it, just riding at whole different level from the rest of the field, but he crashed on the second hit of his first qualifying run and it was over. All the way to Sweden and 15 or so seconds into it…….done. “I can’t believe it.” He said, “All last year the worst I ever placed in any half pipe comp was 9th, even when I was totally injured.” The qualifying procedure in FIS World Cups consists of two runs places 1-5 from the first run go direct to the finals, and only places 6-25 get a second chance to fill 5 more spots in the finals. With his 2nd hit crash Finch didn’t make the 25. “I wish I could just let it go, but I have a way of stewing about it for a long time……Damn.” Finch said. So that’s it, we went back to the condo packed up and watched Downhill Skiing live from Beaver Creek and Lake Louise, then got on the bus at 10:30. In the morning Finch heads to Saas Fee Switzerland for a Rip Curl photo shoot, then to Breckenridge for the Van’s Triple Crown, Park City for the Grand Prix the next week, then Home for Christmas. Kyle will be off to Whistler with the Alpiners, then to Park City. I’m headed home until Wednesday then will meet up with Finch and the rest of the Half Pipe team (who are currently training in Mammoth) in Breckenridge, then to park City with everyone the next week.
Finch Grabbing Some Tail During Practice
Friday, December 06, 2002
Friday Night in Sweden
Pete Thorndike
Ripper
Xavier Hoffman and
his cool new Helmet
Yeeeeeaaaaahhhh for Rosey !
1st Place today in PSL Tandadalen Sweden
