Pre-Season Footage

Here's a cut of the footage compiled thus far from this winter.

in other news i have to send my computer back to be fixed, so this blog wont see some attention for a little while, maybe a week or so.

enjoy.

What's Really Good?

Yeah, I'm at work...and damn is it dead here. Realized I hadn't just posted links to discuss on in awhile, its just been me posting photos of snowboarding and everything going along with it. So yeah, here I am....whatsup with yall?

The Patriot Act just got extended another 4 years, or is about to....so everybody keep looking busy and patriotic or the spot might get blown....

I was on the phone last night with Danny Plaza from Chi and he was driving his ambulance down Cicero when they came upon a plane in the road....yeah, while i was on the phone with him. What'd I say? Well I said I didn't believe him......

First Descent is recieving mixed reviews from critics who have never made a movie in their lives.

Everybody check my boys Luis and Rigel's short experimental that's in the New York Minute online film festival!

Not sure why I'm posting this, but if you care/know about Lindsay Lohan or Juelz (or i guess Jay Leno) then this may be pretty damn funny....

What am I gonna end it with? Some interesting stuff going down on saturn's moon.....

Top pict. is of my homie Sky on the summit of Lone Peak thursday.....epic day i swear......

til then tho....

Grand Targhee- First Trip of the Season

If anyone is wondering there is a ton of snow in the Tetons right now, seriously....we left at 6am on the 3+ hour trek and arrived to a socked in mountain of snow. The days before had the gee gettin 17 inch storms, so far this year 180 inches have fallen at mid mountain. I went with brit and matt, two co-workers from the repair shop next door, and we had the tri-fecta going with the tele/ski/snowboard crew. We basically just chased pow lines all day and by mid afternoon it was snowing so hard that our tracks down were gone by the next round.

It was cold. I rocked 3 face mask layers, and remained calm. By the 330pm the snow was coming at us horizontallly and we were repeatedly losing one another in the trees.

When riding anywhere exposed to the wind and snow sight became totally lost, and you had almost no idea how the snow was in front of you. Granted it felt great because it was pow, but each run closer to 4pm i felt like i was avoiding serious injury with these conditions.

I called it Sierra Nevada Time and hit the car. Not until a good 15 minutes away from the resort in the truck did i begin taking my outerwear off- everything had caked snow onto it. It was still snowing while we drove down to town, ate a quick meal, and began our trek back to Big Sky. We all contemplated crashing the night there and riding pow all day, but from how tired we all were it woulda been a push.

I woulda rode the next day tho if id stayed.....i woulda had to had- they got 14 inches that night.
Oh, and the top photo I cant take credit for- we were so socked in with fog and snow that the Grand Teton was never visible in the least. Generally tho the Grand sits right above Targhee at all times....stayed tuned for further Targhee trip reports and ill get a shot eventually.....

But our initial plan with this trip was to shoot and to ride the backside of Targhee, which is all backcountry access. There's no lifts running back there, so most of the terrain remains untouched. Anyways we were prepared to shoot a lot back there, but with the weather we ran into no one wanted to bring equipment out. The backside was also still closed, which was probably a mixed blessing with the conditions we were faced with.

The ride home was sketchy as hell, but i slept in the back. i didnt feel bad about doing this since ive been in the drivers seat of similar situations all too often. Got home around 830pm and was ready for work the next day with a great story about how deep the gee is right now.

LOG BED!

Finally got into my place. This condo is huge, biggger than the one i lived in last year with 5 people and 3 dogs. I wasnt expecting this place to be furnished at all but bla-dow in my bedroom there is this sweet log bed. A log bed!

I also get a wifi signal in here so im back online daily, or nightly i should say, because i gotta go snowboarding today.

Has anyone slept in this sweet of a bed before, honestly? So far sleep has been uneventful, but i am expecting some abe lincoln dreams, or perhaps something to do with logging...