Whats with all this COMMOTION!!
February 1, 2010 | Filed Under PHOTOS, WEEKLY VISUAL | Leave a Comment
DIY Splitboard Sneak Peak
January 4, 2010 | Filed Under NEWS, PHOTOS | Leave a Comment
Bout time I built myself a splitty. This rig is going to help me open up whole new door in my snowboarding and I’m so psyched. More to come on the full split process. Stay tuned.
The UAC & Snowbird Freeride Avalanche Summit
January 1, 2010 | Filed Under NEWS, PHOTOS, WEEKLY VISUAL | 1 Comment
This past December I had the chance to take the Utah Avalanche Center & Snowbird Free Ride Avalanche Summit. The two day course was geared towards advanced and professional riders looking to refresh or soak up some very valuable avey knowledge taught by some of best forecasters guides and pro riders in the nation. I thoroughly enjoyed being a part of the course and can only help spread the awareness and encourage any one who already travels in the back country or is thinking about riding out of bounds to take a avey course or read up on avalanches because having a beacon, shovel and probe doesn’t mean shit. You need to know how to use these tools and understand the terrain your traveling in as well as being able to recognized all the red flags. This knowledge can save your life as well as your homies. Check out tons more photos and words over at LEVITATION.
Snowbird with Chris Coulter
December 27, 2009 | Filed Under PHOTOS, WEEKLY VISUAL | Leave a Comment
A few photos from a mellow day cruising in bounds with Coulter after Snowbird got some long awaited snow. Super fun day breaking the legs back in shape and no better place to do that then the bird! Check more photos over at Levitation.
Levitation Project
December 11, 2009 | Filed Under WEEKLY VISUAL | Leave a Comment
Stoked to be work with the Levitation Project this season. Lot’s of good plans in the works and its shaping to be one of my best season yet. Really excited to get move on things once the snow allows us to! Check out brand spakin new Levitation site as well as my bio on there.
Alaskan Highway View Near Destruction Bay Yukon
December 7, 2009 | Filed Under PHOTOS, WEEKLY VISUAL | 1 Comment
Not sure what this mountain range is called but its part of the Kluane National Park Reserve near the small town of Destruction Bay in the Yukon Territory. This was taken early morning after an all night rally at about mile 2700 of our 3035 mile journey from Salt Lake to Valdez Alaska. During this trip I was amazed at the all mountain ranges we saw and always wondered if any one had even tapped into half of the ones we passed by. I defiantly was scoping out any possible lines imagining what it would be like the shred them.
IPHONE FRIDAYS – Hunting Season
October 30, 2009 | Filed Under IPHONE FRIDAY, PHOTOS | Leave a Comment
Kinger Alaska Pow
October 12, 2009 | Filed Under PHOTOS, WEEKLY VISUAL | Leave a Comment
- Rob Kingwill testing out a snow-machine accessed snowfield on Thompson pass, Alaska.
Albion Basin Cecret Stash Wall Utah
October 5, 2009 | Filed Under PHOTOS, WEEKLY VISUAL | Leave a Comment
Mount Sneffels Summit Colorado
August 24, 2009 | Filed Under PHOTOS, TRIPS, WEEKLY VISUAL | Leave a Comment
One of Colorado’s most prominent fourteen thousand foot peaks, Mount Sneffels is located in the northern San Juan’s just out side of Ouray. I have been coming here almost every summer since I was born. There is something about these mountains that capture you the moment your in their midst. These peaks give off such a strong positive energy its hard not to love being around and on top of them. This past month I visited the 14,150 ft summit of Sneffels for the second time making sure to capture the amazing views on the way up and down.
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- Sneffels catches your eye right away.
- A view from inside Lavender couloir
- Looking north from the summit towards Montrose & Grand Junction.
- Amazing southern view of Yankee boy Basin as well as the runs of Telluride in the distance.
Know Your Roots-Huka Bar Salt Lake City
August 19, 2009 | Filed Under PHOTOS, WEEKLY VISUAL | Leave a Comment
Cimarron Ridge San Juans Mountains Colorado
August 10, 2009 | Filed Under WEEKLY VISUAL | Leave a Comment
Panoramic Photograph of Chimney Rock, Courthouse Mountain, Precipice Peak, and the spires of Cimarron Ridge sitting in the northwest San Juans mountains of Colorado.
Four photos taken with a canon g10 stitched in PS.
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IPHONE FRIDAYS – Orange Sherbert
August 7, 2009 | Filed Under IPHONE FRIDAY, PHOTOS | Leave a Comment
MEMORY BANK – ABA Alaskan Bonfire
August 5, 2009 | Filed Under MEMORY BANK, PHOTOS | 1 Comment
MEMORY BANK; I will be digging through my archives finding old favorites or photos that have never been seen or used to be published here for you to check out every Wednesday.
Date: April 19th 2009
Rider: Wyatt Caldwell, Elliot Levitt, Mark Dangler, Johnny Centi
Location: A.B.A Bonfire – Thompson Pass- Valdez, Alaska.
This weeks quick Memory Bank photo set is dug up from our last night on Thompson Pass in April 09. This was a perfect crisp night to wind down our Alaskan experience gathering with everyone in camp around the large bonfire sharing stories, laughing and finishing off the rest of the Alaskan Brew stock. Great night to end our three week stay in AK.
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Brighton pow POV
August 2, 2009 | Filed Under VIDEOS, WEEKLY VISUAL | Leave a Comment
Summer sure is cooking the heat these days. Here is a little cool off. POV on a powy December day last season. All this takes is a fast five minute hike off the lift at Brighton and you got yourself some goods! Nothing better than fast frontside turns and riding with out the Angry Midget on my back.
IPHONE FRIDAYS – Night in the ER
July 31, 2009 | Filed Under IPHONE FRIDAY, PHOTOS | Leave a Comment
MEMORY BANK – Pat Moore Superpark 12 Mammoth 2008
July 29, 2009 | Filed Under MEMORY BANK, PHOTOS | Leave a Comment
MEMORY BANK; I will be digging through my archives finding old favorites or photos that have never been seen or used to be published here for you to check out every Wednesday.
Date: May 10th 2008
Rider: Pat Moore
Location: Snowboarder Superpark 12: The Son of Berserker – Mammoth, California.
The 2008 Superpark 12 at Mammoth was another first for me. I remember back in middle school the first time I had read about Superpark in Snowboarder mag in particular the photo sequence of Travis Rice doing an insane 100 + foot rodeo. I remember studying all the photos as well reading the funny stories about Bridges rolling around on a sled shooting poachers with a paintball gun. Well I had finally gotten my chance to come to Superpark, not to ride as I had imaged when I was younger but to help document everything that went down. Day one was pretty chaotic but after each day and each bigger feature opened most riders were weeded out while only the best and gnarliest were left standing. One of the main standouts being Pat Moore. This wasn’t a surprise after his showings from the last couple of Superparks, he sure knows how to leave his mark. This year was no exception expect I was able to witness it first hand. He killed it and here’s the proof.
You can find all the insane heli footage from Superpark compiled into a mini edit in the bonus features of That’s it That’s All.
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Lonnie Kauk Wicked Bender Echo Utah
July 27, 2009 | Filed Under PHOTOS, WEEKLY VISUAL | Leave a Comment
Here’s a few snaps of Lonnie Kauk sending Wicked Bender 5.13b this past weekend in Echo Canyon Utah. He almost on- sighted this beast managing to red point the route second attempt. The dry wall at Echo offers some interesting afternoon climbing on embedded cobble stone right off the I-80. Just hope a train doesn’t roll by when your at a crux… this place is pretty damn noisy.
All photos shot with a canon G10.
IPHONE FRIDAYS – A Long Days End
July 24, 2009 | Filed Under IPHONE FRIDAY, PHOTOS | Leave a Comment
MEMORY BANK – Gigi Ruf Natural Selection 2008
July 21, 2009 | Filed Under MEMORY BANK, PHOTOS | 1 Comment
MEMORY BANK; I will be digging through my archives finding old favorites or photos that have never been seen or used to be published here for you to check out every Wednesday.
Date: February 2nd 2008
Rider: Gigi Ruf
Location: Quiksilver Natural Selection – Dicks Ditch, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Every time I look at this particular shot it always brings me right back to that cold, dark, misty day in Dicks Ditch. This was my first trip to Jackson and it could not have been at a better time. For one Travis Rice had hand picked 17 of the worlds best freestyle riders to come to Jackson for a all natural new approach to a big mountain freestyle contest. Everyone was posted up for a seven day window competing on only the best two days. To top it off both selected zones on the mountain had been closed off a week or so prior letting mother nature blanket over three feet of snow on top of another 2 during the week.
If I remember correctly Gigi was probably the 4 or 5 rider to test his luck on day one in the buried course down the popular Dicks Ditch run. The course had around ten packed lips scattered down the gully with each landing having a nice fluffy cushion of about 3 – 4ft of deeep pow. As you can see it was pretty white out conditions with those three black specks on the right photo serving for a lip marker. After his first hit Gigi had a bit of trouble getting a ton of speed through the sea of untracked snow opting for a classic method disappearing into a whiteout through the nipple deep landing. These two photos combined were my favorite shots from the trip.
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Thompson Pass Valdez Alaska 360 View
July 13, 2009 | Filed Under VIDEOS | Leave a Comment
Check out a shaky (no tripod) video I took from my trip to Alaska this past April. It gives a small glimpse of the 360 degree Mountain view right off the road before entering the heart of Thompson pass. Our heli staging zone was just below where this video was taken and at .13seconds of the video you can see the zone called “the books” where we rode.
I filmed a bunch more stuff from AK so stay tuned for a few more of these short videos coming soon!