IAM NIGHT-December 15 Part II COOKIE MAKING

International Academy of the Mountains (IAM) wishes everyone Happy Holidays! (-:
Grant sneaks a bite, yum!
I've never seen snowman, christmas trees, candy canes, stockings and gingerbread men look so colorful and tasty!
Frosting the cookies.

Everyone putting their artistic touches on the cookies.
Ready for frosting!!!
Ready for baking!
Everyone getting in on the action.
Snowmen, Christmas Trees, Stockings, Gingerbred Men and Candy Canes.

Cutting the cookies.
Ready for rolling and everyone has their cookie cutters ready to go!
Danylle tossing!
So by tradition of Mackenzie's house the cookie dough needs to be tossed from person to person before it'll be ready for rolling and cutting.... Mackenzie starting the cookie dough toss. (of course everyone thoroughly washed their hands before this)
Getting prepared for the cookie dough.

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IAM NIGHT-December 15

Grant with new skateboard deck, Indigo with new Nikita hat.

Grant checking out his new skateboard deck.

Danylle modeling her new facemask and hat.

Cody enjoying every bit of his gift.


Opening Presents





Presents!!!!


Our Christmas Tree


Popcorn bags were stockings for each athlete and full of stocking stuffers, including hand warmers, candy, stickers and of course popcorn packets!



This IAM Night we celebrated the Holidays with cookie making and decorating, along with opening presents from IAM.

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Danylle Hammett Promo

On the 9th of December, Danylle strained her MCL at Breckenridge. Trying to use the time productively, besides rehab for her knee, she decided to put together some footage of her previous skiing. Going from Keystone, Breck, and to Copper here are some of the shots that were collected. Enjoy!

Danylle Hammett PROMO from natesvideoland on Vimeo.

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Strained MCL

As we all know injuries are apart of action sports. As Danylle is always pushing her skiing one of the jumps got the better of her and sent her home with a strained MCL. However, being the lucky girl that she is it only took her off the slopes for a couple weeks.


Macking the most of her injury she takes advantage of all the luxuries of an injury. This cart hauls!

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Inaqui Arrives

On December 14th, Inaqui arrived from Chile. Bringing a warm smile and new latin tunes into the home, we are excited to have him here. Although he speaks fluent english some of us are hoping our spanish will improve while he is here.

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Grand Prix at Copper

Shaun White, Louie Vito and hometown boy, Zack Black came ready to ride and secured themselves a spot on top.

Kelly Clark, Gretchen Bleiler and Soko Yamoka threw down for the podium spots.


Inside the RED BULL Riders tent, so comfy!

The Grand Prix being an Olympic Halfpipe Qualifer brought a strong field of riders from all over the world to Copper Mountain; making it a very exciting comp to compete and be in.
Overall, our first competition of the year was an all around success. All of the IAM competitors rode well, stomped down some progressive runs and exceeded some of their own expectations. It was a great first competition to kick off the season.

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Lauren Stavely Arrives

Coming half way around the world Lauren Stavely arrived to the IAM House from Melbourne, Australia on December 5. With her she brought her sweet and caring personality along with a smooth riding style both in the pipe and on the slopestyle courses. We're all stoked to have her here and have been inspired to work on our Oz accents as well. :-D

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Tori Guinn Arrives

Tori arrived on December 4th from the Tahoe area of California Since she has been here she's showed all of us how to get your jib on.

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Check out the new IAM Home!!!

Based in Frisco right in the center of Summit County with the bus stop only a few blocks from the house and Copper and Wal-Mart right around the corner this spot was a no brainer to move into. Along with the huge parking lot driveway and beautiful view of Mt Royal this place was a definite upgrade, we're all happy to be living in a home and not just a house. Check out our new HOME!


Coat and boot room with personal cubby holes above coats for helmet, goggles and gloves

Downstairs hang out area with cable, movies,PS3 and wireless internet there's never a boring moment











Kitchen
















Upstairs chill zone














Beautiful Mt. Royal right out outside our window.













Outside of home with plenty of parking space!


On December 1st Matt arrived and came ready to ride. Coming straight from the airport to a Woodward session with the ISTC crew he showed what he was here for; tricks, flips, big air and forming a style no one else can own.

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Matty Kirchgasler Arrives

Matty comes from the land of 10,000 lakes and sub zero temps,that's right you guessed it, Minnesota. Coming from the land where there's hard packed ice to ride, he is surely happy to be out in the mountains where the powder is a little more forgiving. IAM is stoked to welcome Matty to IAM House.

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IAM NIGHT

Top Left:
Danylle Hammett and Mackenzie Matters

Top Right:
Danylle, Karly, Mackenzie and Indigo, sporting their facemasks

Bottom Left:
Finished Facemasks


Botttom Right:
Grant finding multiple purposes for facemasks.


IAM Night is held every Tuesday evening, where all of the IAM athletes spend the evening together doing an activity of choice. These activities may range from a night of bowling, going to a Denver Nuggets game to watching a movie or playing cards. IAM nights were formed to help all the athletes to reconnect with one another throughout the busy season and have a sense of family/community within the house. IAM Nights are not mandatory, but athletes are strongly encouraged to be apart of it. Most athletes look forward to the activities that are planned for each IAM Night, for they know fun is guaranteed.


This IAM Night's activity was making IAM Facemasks. All the athletes got the opportunity to pick out their own fabrics to create their very own style of facemask. All of these athlete specific facemasks will later be embroidered with the IAM Logo and worn by the athlete themselves.

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Hanging at the House

The homework/study room receives some decoration. Smith Optics donated banners and stickers to IAM and its athletes. Thank you to JP and Heather at Smith!

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Danylle and ISTC athlete, Karly Shorr get their gear all tuned up for the next day of riding.












After a day of riding Cody kicks back and gets artistic in composing his music. Truly a musical genius!

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