DANIA ASSALY

A little skiing this summer in Hood! What an amazing place with great people and a ton of wonderful adventures. :)

FALL BREAK

Home away from Home

Girls are back at school in SLC, I'm back at home in Edmonton AB!

Stoked to be home for a minute, take a little break, visit with the family and friends out here, but I am definitely missing all the parties and school activities that go on in Utah right now! Plus, I hear it has snowed in CO, so hopefully but the time I get back to Salt Lake in the late fall, we will have some pre season hiking to do!

Hi it's Dania here! Just in NZ right now hangin out in a pretty Hood house in Wanaka! I am staying with all the Canadians, so I feel right at home! Wanaka is so great, a beautiful little town right on the South Island of NZ. The town surrounds a lake, and you can see mountains where ever you look. Those that live here must wake up everyday and think they are the luckiest people on the planet! You really realize that the world is a beautiful place when you live somewhere so pure and natural :)

It is winter again, and there has been three days of competition in about 5 days... So, wild ride but they have been going really well! Two slope contests and one pipe. Three different mountains all offering a little somethin different... Snowpark is real fun, good rails and jumps, Remarkables was in Queenstown, where the most beautiful sunrise I have ever seen took place, and my favorite resort so far, Cardrona, has a perfect pipe and really fun jumps.

Here are some pictures from sunrise, mountains views, and skiing! Enjoy and I will make sure to keep up with the blog and share more from down unda!

MODAN summer in the SLC

As we all know two of our girls, Anna and Dania have traveled off for the summer to ski and play in beautiful Hood River, OR skiing, hitting up the coast and keeping the boys in line. However the rest of us not as fortunate have been holding it down in the SLC. It has been quite the hot summer but in between our efforts to roll in a little bit of money we have discovered some pretty cool activities to keep ourselves cool and entertained. Between Weber float adventures (and injuries), echo cliff jumping, Gallivan Twilight series and Cottonwood Heights pool, shooting the tube, parties and summer time cookouts many stories are to be told! Molly is off to hood today to meet up with the girls  to try and get in some late summer skiing in the 102 degree heat and maybe hit up the beach with some long lost friends! I recently started working for Saga Outerwear as their intern and they have been a blast to work with. They are an amazing group of people with a lot of passion and hard work in their company. The designs these guys throw out on a day to day basis is astounding if you get the chance check out their blog www.sagaouterwear.com and their twitter they update a lot more often and have some funny stories and links to keep you entertained. Here are some pictures of our adventures. 

Cottonwood heights pool

Gallivan Twilight 

Good times yet to be had
kicking it with saga goers!

The crew we got to float the weber 

Till next time... 

All I have to say about Hood, is BEST SUMMER in a while! So much skiing, so much sun, surf, beach, friends, new tricks, campers, yoga, and chillin! Wow it was great, and campfires under the stars on the beach is far better than falling asleep in a bed. Sending it hard on Canada day in another country is far better than your own because everyone thinks you are insane, and skiing in the sun lapping so many times a day is the best feeling ever! Dahoodesthouse... Now those chicks know how to rip almost as hard as MODAN. ;) Yeahhhh Hood.

WSI 2009! and a little Britney ;)

Its me, Dania! WSI, just like every other year, was OFF THA HOOK! There is no better place to be than Whistler in the spring for this event. The music was amazing, the skiing was ok, the weather was awful, but the peak to peak chair and the park jump set up was sooo sick. 

For me, WSI started off with the Britney Spears concert in Vancouver... yah... you can IMAGINE my excitment. She was so damn hott and so damn amazing. really, nothing better ;) We all dressed up as her in a different video and looked SMOKIN. 

SO WSI started off with a kicker party, not as much Max Fish as there normally is, but a ton of pole dancin and chargin the dance floor at Buffalo Bills. It was a busy busy week for me, felt awesome though! Big Air Quals started the

contest off, and my lil homie Megan Gunning won and i came second, so we were STOKED to be hitting the big jump the next night! We threw down with the boys in front of a hugeee crowd feelin awesome! We got to watch Roz G throw a sick 10 to take the win and the boys throw as many double corks as they could. Exhausted after, i decided to sleep instead of party so i could ski in Orage Masters the next day! 

Team Dynastar (aka, 70s basketball team) consisted of Riddle, Trennon, Rainville, McCrea, 

Me. Through the storm and fog, we tried our best to look awesome, make some baskets, and use team work to our advantage... In the end it was the Volkl team that took the win, but we did leave Surface a wee bit disappointed with kickin them out first round ;) 

Next day was pipe Quals, and through a fuzzy morning from a long night dancing, I made it through to finals, meeting Ange already there! Angeli on Finals day was going bigger than most of the guys on her first hit... It was insane and SOOO sick! I had not skied pipe in about three months, so i just went for it, trying the run I was used to and having fun with my friends in the sun! Lots of smiling and dancing and picture taking! Suprise to find... I WON! I had no idea, until all the girls were finished, and I was so stoked! WSI has always been a goal, so being up there with Ange in second and Megan in third was EPIC! I was so pumped for my chicas and we had a blast all day! Another WSI going down in the books ;)

MOUNT HOOD, OR!     summer time :) 

Hey its Dania again! Reporting from HOOD! Let me tell you, if you are not out here,  you should be! I began my June off with a phone call telling me that i could come down to Hood for a dollar less than a penny, and ski everyday! So

 i took it and immediately started livin the ark life... Oregon is the most beautiful place on earth, and I do believe i need to marry and American so i can someday live here :) The vinyards and trees and mountains are so gorgeous! The ark life (where i am currently residing), is pretty 

much a run down motel, infested with kids like me, just livin in Hood to ski and have pretty much the most laid back, awesome life you could ask for... We are here to ride, and timberline mountain is open all year round! Windells has offered us one of the sickest summer parks out there, and the best crew of employees to shred with everyday... 

THE 

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So skiing started out for me GREAT! I was skiing in the sun and occasional fog, and learning a handful of tricks! Didnt like my after skiing job so much, so I stopped that and kinda somehow got away with making up my own! I am now a pipe coach for a couple hours a day up on hill, and a yoga instructor! LEGIT right!? sooooo life is good! I currently have a terribly bruised tail bone, trying to heal and get back out there soon... Meanwhile, Anna Segal is killin it doing rodeos and sick 5s... showin her little campers how its done! Moo was also out here for two sessions kickin it and skiing with us! Windells has a new Tow Rope for s few rails and some 30 footers that are super fun, a new bag jump which people are LOVING, and a real sick pipe!!! 

We are enjoying our ski time, party time at DA HOOD HOUSE, (all of dem crazy boys!) THE ARK, and surfing and beaching a ton on the coast! Lots of beach trips and Portland trips, boys and dress up, mess and trampolines, camp food, late nights and early mornings! I sent it hard for Canada Day :) have to represent, and for the 4th we took a trip to the Coast for some surfin, beachin, yoga

 on the beach, and sleeping on the sand under the stars.. :) 

Hell Yeah Modan!

The season wrapped up and I couldn’t ask for more. It was a slow beginning but the MODAN girls killed it. We traveled across the world and took home some big titles! With the MODAN productions shirts being repped at X-Games, World Cup, WSI, Orage Masters, and Winter Park this company is stirring up quite the talk and I have to say we couldn’t be more excited. This next season we are hoping to take it even farther and make this more available to the public and all the girls out their! Here is a thanks to the girls and congratulations. These girls have accomplished so much this season traveling all across the world from France and Japan to Canada and Mammoth there was nothing that could stop them. Thank you for taking us with you on your adventures and letting our name be known! We captured some great moments of the girls showing off the MODAN name!