...Trying To Keep It Right

Let's see...we got back from New York a few days ago to extreme torrential downpours in Massachusetts, unrivalved I'd say to my memory. 8-15 inches are numbers i'm familiar with for snowfall, but to get that in rain?!? Forget about that! Southern New Hampshire/north of Boston is getting an unfathomable amount of water and theres rampant flooding. Down at my parents house it hasn't been too bad, none of the usual spots had any water leakage. It's just felt like groundhogs day, every day it just rains and is dark outside....so it's a slightly depressing weather affair over here right now.

This is a photo I took of the Whitestone bridge. It's blurry and you can see the hood of my truck, but im not posting this for its beauty. First attempt at leaving NYC about at this same spot the 4runner I was driving just shut off in motion. I was in the middle lane goin around 40, and all of a sudden in heavy traffic I have no power steering and no juice in my battery. We coasted into that middle meridian thing and had to push the truck up to get outta the way. In no time an MTA truck was there to help me get the truck off the road by bumping me. A cop showed up really quick too for clearing a path thru the traffic. Even AAA showed up with a tow truck in no time- everything was fast. The whole incident left us with needing a new battery and alternator, about a 500 price tag in full. We had to waste time walking around College Point for the afternoon, or more like Target. For some reason this Target had red balls out front of it. I wanted to skate them but didn't have the board. Here's Jenny posing with one letting you know how life-size they are....

Jenny took the first photo also of the city skyline. That's from off the Whitestone bridge, the 2nd time around, which went smoothly....

The gameplan is Chicago this week, Minneapolis this weekend, Big Sky some time a week from now....I really need to start working again.....sigh...

"Hung Up On My Baby" - Isaac Hayes
"Elevators" OS Remix - Outkast
"Feelin'" - Kamaal the Abstract
"Feel Like Makin' Love" - Roberta Flack
"Locked Away" - N.E.R.D. (props to the OSN for that one!)

More NYC Ph.toes

Last night at some dive bar: Suppose to go to a free promo party for a new cell phone coming out but the RSVP online didn't go thru, or some talk- either way the crowd was looking like we were all gonna go in and compete at something, staring each other down and people trying to cut to the front on some "excuse me im, uhm, important in my own world"....yea so the dive bar on 14th with buy 1 get 1 free any drink or beer, plus the 5 dollar burgers or chix finger proved worthwhile. Blue Moons with oranges in them. Usual suspects all around here...

What'sup with my hair flock-action in above pict? In addition: Whats'up with the Boss' Chook? Lu's roof a few days ago before the weather got blah.

Some are speculating that this is another elusive Brooklyn Sheriff sighting. I, however, still refute da shewiff's existence...

Below is a dark-phtoe of Jenny on the phone at the oldest bar in Manhattan, called McSorleys. The place is over 150 years old and theres things hanging on the walls that haven't been moved or touched since it's opening. The bartenders there look like what my imagination tells me an irish bare knuckle boxer would look like. They give you a light and a dark beer there and they brew it in the basement. If I were a critic of some sort id recommend checking this place out for the atmosphere alone.

For all this indian restaurant knew it was Zubbear's birthday a few nights ago, so we all got a scoop of this mango flavored ice cream. There's a tremendous over abundance of christmas lights up in there, and become a hazard if you are over 5'4. For some reason there are 3 very similar indian restaurants next door to each other, so they all fight for your business when you are approaching them, trying to throw deals at you.


Couple more days here and we are over the hump on this roadtrip.

What Goes On Pt. 3

Back in NYC, first bar we went to after parking was Nectar for some beer pong...

Yesterday was lovely out so it was all about Coney Island. Here we have our mini-golf game, which got intense...

For some reason these photos are out of order, that doesnt mean they dont work tho! This is back at Nectar two days ago...

The water up here in both Mass at Horseneck beach and down here at Coney Island is way too cold to get down with unless your trying to prove something, so we did a lot of wave-watching...

I don't think the Boss ever connected with these pitches but hey we all can't be don mattingly now can we...

//...And it goes on....Few more days here and we'll keep it movin...

What Goes On, Pt. 2

Here we have the last 2 weeks, Utah, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Mass.....
NYC this weekend....

What Goes On, April 19th

...fixing up Big Sky's Skatepark...

...shooting photos of Justin's heelflips.....too bad he couldn't stick one...

...driving down to Utah with Danny and Sky...

...more driving...this time in Utah, a beautiful but crazy state...

...chilling on the ridge above Brighton....

I have a lot more photos but for now this is what this blogsite will let me upload.....staya tuned man!

Over It?

Skateboarding is fun, but I'm slightly over it. I've put in over 100 days this season so i think I'm not insane for not being terribly hungry to get some this time of the year (for those who don't understand that don't worry about it), but I'm still having fun. Back to our original point, skateboarding; Now That's Fun! Actually it was slightly frustrating, being the first day back and all, but being outside skating with friends is hard to rival. Anyways...

I have decided that I need to give more links in my blogposts, since people are only interested in what you have to say when you give them something. Here I have for you:
A 9,000 year old dentist drill

The tragic Mammoth patrollers story

Ghostface's Best Album?

I also give you insane pictures, sometimes.

...but u dont hea'metho...

Yellowstone National Park, Boiling River

Yellowstone National Park is an amazing place to check out. I've been neighbors with it for the past 3 winters and had yet to even go there until yesterday. Most of the park is closed in the winter because the roads are plowed, but some of it is opened. When you go into the park theres a huge arch to go under that Teddy Roosevelt dedicated in the early 1900's. I never liked Teddy that much personally, but his quote on the top of the arch preached certain relevance; "For the Benefit and Enjoyment of the People." About 500 ft past that sign theres a man that wants 20 dollars per vehicle to get inside. I had to call a friend and make sure I didnt go the wrong way.

This is the Boiling River. Where it meets the Gardner River you can soak, and its amazing! It's a mixture of 180 degree volcanic-center of the earth water combining with cold mountain water, so it kinda feels like a really clean and shallow public pool in that respect- lots of different temperature pockets.

Jenny and I had never been to the river before. The whole experience was amazing just to step and think on because we were in this mountain river hotspot and there were bald eagles flying over us, bison on the horizon across the river, and lots of slippery rocks. Honestly I almost fell asleep on the drive home from too much relaxing.

The river was really photogenic....

This is a hot pool at Mammoth Hot Spings. These aren't the kind you want to jump into though.

I didn't stop to read much of the sign because all these pools wreak of sulpher, which smells like rotten eggs, but from what I caught these pools are hosts to millions of microscopic bacteria lifeforms in an entire eco-stratrosphere. That last part I made up. What I got out of it the most was that this was the place where National Geographic gets their shots of this kind of thing.

That's where we're at right now. Only 1 week of resort riding left....

The Return To Lost Lake

A lot has gone down in Lost Lake since I last was there. Actually, in between the last time i did this run/hike there was a person who went missing for two nights back there. Word is he randomly followed a local back there through the access gate and under vertigo, no-vis conditions he decided to go his own way like stevie nicks and ended up a seriously confused (and proally hungry person). He ended up in Moonlight real estate property from what I gather, and in those two days everyone was talking about it. The police had helis up there with snowmobiles and moonlight patrol looking for this kid. Ends up that he had warrants out on his arrest, so as soon as he was dropped off by the helis the cops took him in. Howabout that- sleeping out in the woods for 2 nights then to sleeping in a jail cell?

Rob's checking out a line off this death-cornice. One person we were with broke off a huge slab of one cornice a little further down just by walking a little too close to it. Backcountry is real.

That's the way I came down this time. The snow was unbelievable compared to last time we did this.

The line out was so smooth, fresh, and long. In a few years there will be a lift at the bottom of this bowl I bet. For how good this area is and the amount of great riding to be done its only a matter of time.

That's crew from today. We hit the tram and this area at such a perfect time. Ski patrol thought the viz was sketch and to cut the chutes before we charged them, but everything was good to go.

...and thats all I got this time around. Enjoy? This season just won't let up it's still snowing- we do have heavier snow but its not rain yet!