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.
I found my self shooting a lot of long exposures during our many nights staying on Thompson Pass, Alaska. On the clear nights the stars were out in full force and the mountains stood tall glowing under the moonlight creating an amazing luminous frozen landscape. Despite the cold I would try and stay out as long as I could shooting and waiting for a chance to capture the Northern Lights but mother nature decided against giving me the famous show, which was a bummer. Unfortunately not having a remote trigger or a timer remote controller I was left with my in camera 30 second exposure. Although I wasn’t able to get some really long exposures I was happy with what I was able to get under the time limit circumstances. Below are just a couple of my favorites from the trip including the first photo set of multiple self portraits taken around the ABA base camp where I popped myself with my g10. Second photo is of the Moon rising over The Books Mtn Range and the third photo a panoramic shot of ABA base camp under a full moon.
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Going up to Alaska for 14 days this past April was definitely the highlight of my season. Valdez and Thompson pass has to be one of the most amazing places I have ever been. The things I learned and experiences I had blew away any thing else I have ever done in my 13 years of snowboarding. My only regrets being not snowboarding as much as I would have liked and not being able riding a true AK line for myself. But every one I shot sure got some and more. I was stoked to just watch, shoot and have the chance to be in this incredible place. Hopefully someday I will make it up there again!
We broke the trip in to two featured stories. Part One being all snowmobile accessed zones on Thompson Pass and Part Two being all zones accessed by a heli. Click below to check out my photo galleries and the very smooth edit by Mark Dangler from the SNOWREV AK trip.
