Monday, February 28, 2011

Finally


DudeTube blocked this, then Vibeo took forever to load. Regardless, here it is. LBS 2011.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Skull Mountain

The past two days had been firing at Stevens, but the office had my number. So we rolled up here last night to find a foot and a half of snow on the ground in Sky. Got the kids in bed, fire built, coffee ready for the morning, set the alarm and then walked outside with my new Christmas shovel and started working on the back yard shred zone, Skull Mountain. After 45 min of shoveling snow on both sizes of the massive stump we use as our table top, it was bed time for me.
Up at 6:30am, coffee, fire and making pancakes. On the chair at 8:45am, and rode Utah style dry ass pow till 1 and came home. Then the shredding really started. Grabbed local plow dude and he built us a quick drop in zone. Fixed the rail yard, added a couple pump bumps and then built a little quarter at the end. By the end of the session at 7, Milo was going for McTwists off this shit. "Dad, do we have to go to the mountain tomorrow? Can't we just get up and ride Skull Mountain instead?'

No.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Heli time


The Wiener laying down a couple of sweet ass helicopters.

ESPN Banked Video


Gums gets some play at 1:17, kinda killing it too. Milo and friends at 2:58. Funny shit.

Friday, February 18, 2011

WHO the f*ck leaves at NOON?

Got the opportunity to be in You Tar this week. Hit the Snowbasin demo for two days. Then a bonus day with the boys at Pow Mow on Friday. 2 out of the 3 days proved to be pretty incredi. Day 1 of the demo sucked balls. Huge winds, lifts shut down, weird ass snow, and people jonesen to shred made it a pretty difficult day on top of leaving the house at 4:30am to catch the 6am flight to SLC. Day two though, man...6+" fell and it may not seem like a lot, but the wind blew it in the right spots, and the snow was just awesome. Top it off with a tour guide that knew every nook and cranny on the place and it was a full day of getting some. Day 3...rolled 11 deep over to Pow Mow for a duplicate day of day 2 cept no business to be had, just the business of getting busy.
Demo tent steeze
Bluebird
Dude Tour super duper pipe, that's Tony and Matty P walking up the mat to slide down on.
Pow Mow with Bennice, Benny and oversized goggle and undersized helmet guy.
"Yea...is this GoPro on?" Got a 1,000 of these shots in the works.
Butterfly'd hotdog. Mmmmm.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Proper

Stole this from the Hot Lava boys. Stevens kid Matt Penny, saucing that shit UP.

Baker Banked Re-Cap

Holy shit I'm shnitzled. This was a long ass week. In VT Monday thru Wednesday, then a 3 hour drive from Strap On to Boston to catch a 5 hour and 55 min flight to Seattle. Arrived home at midnight thirty to find two kids, a dog and my ole lady sleeping in MY bed so off I went to fit my 6'3" body in the bottom bunk bed that is 6' long. An INCREDIBLE sleep later and I was up at 7:30am and off to Baker to get some training runs in with my little guy who was shooting for the gold duct tape this year. We had a specific board that he (and I) had meticulasly prepared for weeks before. Daron Rahlves gave me some specific instructions on what to do and I followed his advice to a T. Over a dozen non fluro waxes were applied to the bases before they even hit the snow. Then a good fast ass wax for race day and we were off. This all got thrown out the window though as Soccer Dad got all mental and shit and flipped the switch with stick choices in day two. So...whatever. Run what you bring right?
Baker was classic Baker for the Banked Slalom too. Sunny and warm for training on Thursday, cloudy on Friday for qualifiers, gail force winds on Saturday and then the sky's opened up showed one of the best courses ever for Sundays main events.
Once again Session / Full Sail sponsored Team C3 consisting of Wilmoth, Pelligrino, Pagosa Tony, Bye Bye Bybee, Gumby, Blue, Gorio, Chad, Joe, Milo and I. Missing were Kind Bro and Hor-Hey as they were attending Scottys funeral. R.I.P. Scotty. We made it our mission to get one of our asses on the podium to dedicate the weekend to his memory. Mike D was also missing, but that's another story. Fucker.
Finals day was a bit of a scare as Mid Master started the show off promptly at 9:30AM and defending champ Gorio had left his race deck in Glacier. So dude ran both runs on a borrowed board and binders and STILL pulled a 4th. On top of that, almost everyone of our group made the main event too. Lil Guy gave er on the first run and put it down in a corner. That came in and gave him a good head fucking but lil dude figured it out and layed down a run 6 seconds slower than his pops who weighs 130 lbs more, rides a deck 30 cm longer and has been snowboarding 20 year longer. Not cool.
Miles of smiles were produced thru out the four days and in the end, our crew brought home 4 duct tapes. Ben grabbed the mike from Gwen on stage and gave tribute to Mr. Goodale in a way that would of made him proud.
Congrats to Gags - silver, Blue - bronze, Ben - Bronze, Jacob - silver, Milo - silver and the WARBLES - dual GOLD.

Cody Warble and Milo got the FIRST runs down the course on Thursdays training day. Terje was third to roll down. Sup now?
Gorio, Gorio, Gorio...
Helmet time for me these days.Finals weather. Buttery.
Soccer moms, soccer mom'n it out.
NCP
Finals day, run 1. Milo.
Some serious AF shit here. You'll see this shot in Frequency next year.
Montgomery was STOKED. 3rd place in Pro Masters. Watching him win was better than winning myself. Well almost. Not really, but I'm pretty happy for him.
Winners
Blues belt buckle. He really wanted a Baker trucker hat instead. I might just trade him for it.
Dream team of the Warbles. Dad smoked me and Cody beat Milo. On top of that, he stole my job at Oakley 15 years ago. God damn it. Congrats dudes.

When I figure out I-Movie or Final Cut or whatever the fucks on this new Mac super book of mine, I'll roll out a vid.

THANKS BAKER.

Silver and Bronzes

Hammer Time at the 26th Banked Slalom. The Full Sail - Session / C3 crew cleaned up. 2 silvers and 2 bronzes. Congrats Krugmeir with silver in Utes, Montgomery bronze in Pro Master, Milo silver in Next Gen and Pell-eh-Knee-Grow with a bronze in Mid Masters.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Strap-On

Stratton, love this place. Used to come to it in High School on Wednesday bus trips my senior year. Mom's made a deal with me, "get B's and you can ski on Wednesdays." I was obviously a struggling C student. Would get on the bus down in Padanarem at the local ski shop and do a 4 hour commute up there to lean back and rip around the hill all east coast style. The past two days got to do the same with a bunch of Jersey and New Yorkers. Killer demo, great energy, and good people. Fuckin love the East GUY!

Demo'n
Happy Birthday Broadwell.
You get to drink Bud Light Lime from the Chill Zone cooler. 23degrees YO!
The west can't hold a candle to the GRINDERS on the EAST. Take note. This shits an ITALIAN.
...and this is a Lobster Roll.
Savage, as usual.

Scotty Goodale

Gonna miss your smile and laugh kid. It was a pleasure to have known you. R.I.P.
Your buddy, Johan - the asshole.


Dear friends and family of Scotty,

Services to celebrate Scotty's Goodale's amazing life are scheduled for Sunday Febuary 13th, in Boulder, Colorado. The location has not been finalized. Another email will go out with further details for those of you that would like to attend.

Many of you have reached out and have asked how to help. Many opportunities to pitch in on fundraisers to help scotty's family will be held in the months to come.

For those of you that would like to make a donation now, a special account has been set up for scotty's son Asher through Chase bank. The mortuary is handling all collections for Asher's account. Donations can be made payable to Jennifer Goodale and should be mailed directly to the mortuary. please make all monetary donations to the address as is below.

Jennifer Goodale

c/o Crist Mortuary

3395 Penrose Place

Boulder CO 80301

Phone: 303-442-4411

all flowers and other gifts for jen and asher can be sent to their home:

jen goodale

1720 Hawthorn ave

boulder co 80304

feel free to contact andy wise or dave graves if they can help you out in anyway.


Friday, February 04, 2011

Demo Tear Down

Uncrated

Ran Dumbs

The thing I'll miss most from SIA, is the ran dumb people you rarely get to see but really enjoy when you do.

Big C, Tom Crow and I were walking across the street to lunch and ran into Wayno. Who carried a special bottle of wine all the way from the east coast for me. Had a great lunch and never saw him again. Pickle's the man, and gonna be back in the game again. Soon.
Party Martys wife Tammy is seen here with the board graphic she helped to inspire. Chase your dreams TAMMY! I think I like her more than Marty.
With a combined height of 6'8" Kale and Ben are a dream team. Just check you back pocket to make sure you still got your wallet after hanging with them.

Lee-Distan

The MAN behind the best action sports news site. Mr. Crane. Thanks dude.

SIA Demo Foe Toes

The workspace. Between 12 of us it took 34 minutes to set this workshop up. No ONE could step to us. Specially with the official "Union Demo Team" orange capes we all wore.
Kimura and Dyke Boy (yes, that's her name) stayed with us. Stardumb did NOT get to her either. She was up at 6AM every morning wanting to brave the cold weather to help us set up.
Not much to do after you get set up, cept fuck with your friends. 32 demo trailer.
Off in the distance at the top of the pipe you can kind of see a 42 year old man MURDERING backside airs in this icy ass pipe. Mike D's bs airs are dreamy ladies. Bring an extra set of pantys if you every go to the pipe and watch him turn that base up. Srsly.
Kujo, I mean Sookie is part Malimute and part wolf. The dog is a mellow cruiser. Kind of like he's eating pot doggie food all the time. Matty G????