Defending Awesome still....Gold Disc #4

Congrats to Edgar Simental! He found the Golden DVD of Awesome-ness on Black Friday at Eternal Snow in Reno.

Terror Squad

Stevens has been open 9 days and we've been there 6 of them.  Park, pow, ice, groomers and back country have all played in the game.  Claiming it, best early season opening ever!  Anyway, the boys are back...not as polished but bringing their A game none the less.

Maiden voyage

Finally, after sending 2 sets of bindings and a check to the Karakorum dudes (thanks Tyler) like in late September, and having my Party Shark and Microscope sent out to be split, Nick at Sick Splits finished the shit up on Wednesday.  The day we were leaving for the cabin for a good 5 days of hick time.  All we needed were some skins and poles and off we'd be going.  So I thought.

So after Thanksgiving dinner with the Burchs, Josh jumped in as the experienced hippie and started getting our skins dialed to the boards.  "What the fuck is a tail clip dude?"  Yea he had spares.  2 hours later we had our shit looking tight, all we had to do was commit to walking vs. riding the chair.

Friday at Stevens was a mad house.  Pow, good weather and people with days off equaled 4,500 people on the hill, that is half open.  Lines galore.  So, no better time than the present right?
Josh continued with his patient (kindbro'd) ass with Milo and I and took us for our first tour.   It would of taken us a good half a dozen times or so just to figure out what he told us to do in the first 30 minutes.  Lesson here, go with people who have done it before you.

A 45 minute climb to up the mountain across the street from the area was pretty easy.  Lil guy was freaking me out too.  "Dad, look at this view!  Dad, this is awesome.  Dad, can we do this again after we get to the bottom?"  Hmmmm, hippie spawn? 

We were still climbing to the top when we passed this touring skier who was coming down the hill in the same tracks he went up (why the fuck would you do that) when we asked him how much farther it was to the top.  He said it was ten minutes up but if he were us, he'd just strap in and ride down from where we were because it was skin trail to come down on to get to the pow field we just passed.  Milo said "uh, no way I'm climbing this far with out going to the top, let's go."  So, off we continued. 

We bolted all our shit together and moto'd the trail up, down slashing everything in site until we got the big ass slope that was track free.  Then we proceeded to tattoo the shit out of it with our signature style down.  Hands down, best pow runs of the season. 

So for the maiden voyage, double thumbs up.  Fairly easy to do, stuff rides like the resort goods we ride, and the untracked der is worth the hike.  Thanks Burch for the patience in popping our cherrys.  You were gentle. Fuck yea bro, gorps pretty tasty.

Weekend openerz

The road to Baker opener started at 5:30AM.

Camaro was already in line.

And the man with the plan had tickets WAITING for us.  Thanks Joe Neese!

Jumped in line, and got 3rd chair up on opening day with TJ, Sweaty and John.  Amazing.

Mikey Scott was there.  He had a scarf and trinkets on too.  Riding a Fish and Cartels.  Fucking trader.  Off program and CLIPPED. 

Gorio and Dog Park Rob show up?  Course, what else is Gorio gonna do since he ain't working.  SOMEONE please give this dude a job.  Otherwise he'll get 200 days in this season and win the Banked Slalom, again.

I'm fucking serious.

M.A.B.S.

Drove back from Baker, met the ole lady and kids in Alderwood, and then drove to Stevens for opening day.  Their new kits are looking pretty tight.

Sweaty got out of my car, hi5'd his ole lady, grabbed his rat and high tailed it to the cabin too.  Milan needs a kit upgrade Sweaty.  Been running that polka dot girl shit for 3 years.  Invest bro. 

Brooks and Daisy were open for 2,000 people.  Nothing but good attitudes for all the waiting involved.

Sunday on the other hand, was off the charts good.  Hogs opened up, half the crowds and 10X the fun.  Mac and new Terror Squad member Meier running Brooks.

Winters here.  Hell yea.  Bring it.

Oh shit

Season Opener

Yep, it was that fucking good.  Funny thing is that Sunday at Stevens with Milo, Mac and Meier was 10X better.

RUSSIA

This is how our Russian distributor throws a CAPiTA Defenders Of Awesome Premier!

Vodka party YO!

"Dat is a dude!" Guy with shirt up needs to get a Gut B Gone.

Muscle butt

Wood ya?

Chupa

Look at da wheels on that SHIM.

How about a

FUCK YEA BRO!

GAR!

The Levitation Project shop is up and running. Check out 2 time Mt. Baker Slalom duct tape winner Benny "GAR" Pell-i-knee-grows modeling the Lev Zep shirt. Dute!

As a bonus, here's Jonas, the BONUS. 

Ow que pie this!

A purple COAL Addie occupies Wall St on NY 1 News.

Cough, cough...you know what this means...

MT. BAKER SKI AREA WILL OPEN FRIDAY NOV. 18th!
Forecasts are calling for a strong front to bring us 15 - 20 inches of new snow over tonight and tomorrow.  This snow, added to our existing base, will give us the amount needed to begin the 2011-12 season.  Depending on how conditions develop, we are looking to open both Base Areas and most chairlifts, but be sure to check our snow report Thursday afternoon for final opening day details.
It is currently 29-degrees at the mountain and overcast.  We've had no new snow, and our base at Heather Meadows is 29 inches.

Forecast calls for a COLD on fever on Friday!

Winner winner, CAPiTA dinner

Charlie Mintz from Illinois was the 2nd one to find a Golden Disk of Awesomeness! Charlie found the Disk at The Shred Shop! Congrats Charlie! 

A little closer to being a filthy ass hippie

Milo and my Union/Karakorum combo's that Parko is currently mounting up and a Microscope and PartyShark.  Should have em in possession by the end of the week.  Now waiting for Gar to send out some skins and poles, and we got ourselves a little Stevens mission on Saturday. 
Anyone want to give us a clinic on how to work this shit? 

That's the triple truth Ruth

Says ESPN:  "CAPiTA Super Corporation is a platform for self-improvement," says owner/founder and ex-pro rider Blue Montgomery. "We provide products to enhance awesomeness. In fact, our best-selling package is called 'The Complete Totally Awesome Program.'"

Six 8 Six

This thing is pretty rad.  Hats off to them on the mere effort it took to get this thing rolling.  Read more...

Snowboard Mexico

Killing more shit up there than the Cartels these days.  Honestly, Snowboard Canada is probably my favorite READING magazine of all of them.  Actually, like all mags these days.  But thats me.

8 page interview of the Terminator, Phil Jacques.  Incredible.

 Sum hOme love.  My watch of choice.

 Well cum two da teem.

 Kimura and Peter.  Classic.

 Camaro

Ya Heard?

"If conditions develop as forecasters are predicting, Mt. Baker could POSSIBLY OPEN AS EARLY AS NEXT THURSDAY, NOV. 17th!  Stay tuned here or on our snow report phone line for daily updates."

Anyway, going to the Stabbin Cabin this weekend to prepare Skull Mountains slopes.

Crabs

I got mine today! 

Mt. Baker Baked Slalom

Union and COAL, official sponsors of this year Mt. Baker Banked Slalom!  NW for LIFE!

Pure GOLD

First GOLDEN DISC OF AWESOME has been discovered.  At Satellite Board Shop in Boulder Coloradical.  Congrats Logan Flemming!

Snowboard Realms

Everyone that wished TJ had a bigger part in DOA, here you go.  Snowboard Realms, season 5 intro.

MC and Teams

Finally here.  Shipping tomorrow.

Certified Masshole

Kinda needed this pick me up today after unRad Dads Saturday soccer move.  Thanks Sleeps.

Get sum

Here...

Apparently there is a "I" in team

There's a reason I've enjoyed individual sports all my life and it's because you got no one to blame but yourself when you get your ass kicked.  But there are lessons to be learned on teams, and that's why we have the rodents playing so many.  They are destined to be individual sport kids, but forced to play team.
So it's CYO soccer team final game this last Saturday.  The boys worked their asses off all season, 2 practices a week, plus a game, and most of them played club soccer too so their game was stepped up.  In Milo's case, he practiced 4 days a week, and played 2 games a week.  Dedicating 12 + hours a week to this craft.  All this work, for what was to go down on Saturday, the CYO finals.  They were destined to be crowned the Best God Soccer team.
That is, till one person decided to bring Satan upon them.  One of the 4 key players parents decided it was time to teach their kid a lesson on Saturday.  They weren't gonna let them play in the finals because he didn't do a book report.  Hmmmm.  So...practice all year, play all year in hopes to make it to the finals, then teach your kid a lesson by not playing him?  Not only did your decision keep your kid off the field, but now you just made a decision for the two coaches, 16 other kids on the field and the parents that went to every practice and game.
So now, team loses to a team they should of beat, because one key kid wasn't there.  Hmmmm.  How about a fucking belt to the kids ass as a lesson Dad?  Dude just took my title as Worlds Worst Dad.  Now I'm SWWD.
I'm still bullshit about this, 3 days after the fact.  Fuck team sports.  Over it.  For now.

 Losers.  You can see the tears running down Milos face in this photo.

CYO Finals

Boys play in the finals tomorrow for GOD's favorite team.  Say a prayer.

Shirts against the blouses.

"Never judge a book by it's cover. This cat could BALL!"

Union Purple Rains dropping Monday.  Better than purifying yourself in Lake Minnetonka!

COAL French Vanilla

Cribz, WA style

This dude worked in our warehouse last year. This was his "crib" at Stevens a couple of years ago, these days he's moved on up to a deeluxe treehouse in the sky.

Peter Lee Johnson

Met this chaps dad last night in the neighborhood while trick or treating.  Peters younger brother is on the swim team with my kids.  Anyway this kids at USC and apparently getting flown all over the world for his violin skillz.  Kind of amazing.

Read this...

Best interview I've read in long time.  "Yea, she’s a cunt. She went to India to find herself and fucking cheated on her husband with some Indian dude and then dumped that dude. I haven't read it, I’ve just heard the stories. I’ve probably got it all wrong, but I need to read that."

My life the past weak

It took me 45 years to put a day a month on the hill, but finally did it last Friday at Loveland with Count N Phil, Kind Bro and Un-Wise.  Hows that Dan Brisse signiture V-Stone kit I'm running this year huh?  You miring?  Huh?   You miring my fucking V-Stone set up?  Yea....thought so.

Jack and Cody Warble were there.  Thank God cause I didn't have my rodents to ride with, so ended up adopting these two seeing how my social skillz with adults is lacking.

Jack seen here paying me my $1 that I won in a bet with who had better box skills.  My nose grab to disaster beat his box gap.  Yea, beating a 8 year old at snowboarding and taking his money feels soooooo good.  Pay up sucker.

Un-Wise has some good dome and a better bs 1.

Halloween and the Fat Face ap.

5 moms left from Moms group that started 10 years ago with the first born rats has now morphed into this...13 kids. 

Henry!

Wieners soccer season ended on Saturday with their first loss.  They played a team that plays year round and the other coach came in claiming hard saying they hadn't had a loss in 3 years.  First half, our guys were up 3 to 1.  Other coach was going nuts, a-because they were losing, b-because I was heckling the fuck out of that fuck.  But in the end, they had too much depth on their team and beat us 6-4.  Best game I've ever watched and the Wiener learned an important lesson that day.  No matter how good you think you are, there's always someone smarter, stronger, faster and tougher than you.  Stay humble.  Coach Matt giving out the awards to the kids, before the parents got into 4 bottles of bourbon.

Milo's CYO team is seated number 3 in the playoffs.  They stand a real good chance of winning the whole thing.

JP the figher, Milo the enforcer, Leo the goal scorer and Mike the ball target.

COAL sponsored soccer team.  God said too.