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.
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.
I haven’t been excited to see a snowboard flick as much as I’m for this one! Going to be unreal!
I put together a gallery of 56 of my favorite photos from the 2008/2009 season. Along with the photos and captions I recorded six audio tracks to go along with six of my absolute favorites of the gallery. You can hear me explain some behind the scenes stories as well as what it took and why I liked the particular photo. Click the links below to travel into cyberspace straight to my season gallery!
Jump on a visual journey through the eye of 22 yr old Salt Lake City, Utah based photographer Andrew Miller for his season gallery. “I went through my catalogs starting from my first day shooting to my last grabbing one to two of my favorite photos from the shoot. Hope you enjoy!”
View the photos and listen to the audio from my season gallery favorites HERE
This past season I donated some photos to the Injured Riders Foundation. This foundation was started by SNOWREV founder Johnny Centi after experiencing a serious back injury. Having no health insurance and no extra funds for surgery while dealing with our countries ridiculous health care system various health insurance providers showed no support or help for his situation. After going through all this he wanted to show support and help people who have hurt themselves participating in action sports like snowboarding, skateboarding, climbing and surfing.
I have been involved with SNOWREV and worked closely with Johnny since 2006, remembering back then he was always talking about starting this foundation. I’m stoked for Johnny and to finally see the IRF picking up speed launching a new site and recently receiving the 501(c)(3) status ableing them to start accepting tax deductible donations.
I know the IRF will really change riders lives having almost been in a situation were I would have needed help like this. In 2006 I severely blew my knee out snowboarding having to have major surgery and extensive physical therapy. For the whole season of 05/06 I was snowboarding, skateboarding and snowmobiling with out health insurance and luckily a WEEK before I blew out my knee I had signed up to be covered. Waiting to sign up a week later I would have found my self with over $50,000 in medical bills. This is great foundation and I’m glad to be contributing even if its only my photos. Stop by read the stories and find out more info on how you can be involved.
- Photo on the ” Our Story” page of Johny about to drop on a misty day at Brighton, Utah.
- Graphic design and photos for tabs on the IRF Contact and Home page.
- Read my profile on the IRF site HERE
Pages with my photos from the IRF Newsletter. Click to Enlarge
On a recent trip back to my old stomping grounds I had a chance to help my sixteen year old sister Ashley complete a project for her 10th grade photography 1 class. I tried to get her to start looking at everyday things from a different perspective while noticing the small details and composing the object in a unique ways. This was the final collage for her project.
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.
This is a pretty funny photo set I shot earlier this yea for my buddies clothing company CIIAIR. These photos are all about the reactions deep in an intense session of the Man Game. I had never heard of it or played before but the rules are: Sit a table with a couple of beverages, light a firework on the table and who ever last sitting down the longest wins. That alone should give a small insight on how these characters live.
Grab the link and check out a small web gallery featured on Utah based Arkade Magazine’s website. Shot Locations range from Utah to Wyoming and Mammoth. Riders range from Lonnie Kauk to Nick Russell to Jeff Kramer and more.
This has pretty much been posted all over everywhere by now but I want to show some more support to a homie in need.
” Cody Rosenthal recently broke his L3 vertebrae on day two of Super Park 09. He was flown out of Mammoth Lakes Hospital to Renown Hospital in Reno and is currently in ICU. His surgery takes place May 10, 2009. This group is for all of us who love Cody and wish to support him and his family financially during this very difficult time. Like most talented snowboarders in this industry, Cody does not have Health Insurance. Any donations anyone can give are deeply appreciated. Just follow the link below to donate. If you don’t have a paypal account already, its FREE and EASY to get one, it only takes a second… Give a little to someone who gives a lot.”
Cody I wish you a speedy recovery! You will be back on your board in no time tweaking those methods even harder!
Donate now! I already did. Skip going out to eat for a week or buying some useless thing you don’t really need. Five bucks, 13 bucks, 500 bucks…. anything will help! Sacrifice for a minute and help a brother out!
DONATE TO CODY’S FUND HERE.
- Cody was killing it at Superpark a day before his accident.
