Since 1996

My last year in Steamboat I got 149 days on shredding. I know this because I keep a calander, yes compulsive. That was 1996. The next year I took an industry job away from the mountain town and was told by the Burton Rep and the Nitro Rep at the time that I will be happy to get 30 days that year. I called bullshit, told them that I wouldn't be like them and vowed to get half the days I did the previous year. And I did. Each year since then has been anywhere from 60 - 75 days a season depending on the snow, kids and my health. This year, for some reason (Milo) my day count was thru the roof, and finally broke the 100 day mark. Yesterday, at Hood. The boys and I went down Saturday to get August checked off, as I've never shredded all 12 months of the year (11 X 2) and trying to check that off the list. We have September to go and finally retire that little stupid goal. Anyway, plan was to shred Saturday, and make our way back to Sea Town on Sunday hitting skate spots along the way. The problem was, the hill was so freaking good, that all insisted we stay and make shred on Sunday. Dude tube, rails, boxes, jumps and mini biking were all there to be had, along with 70 degree sunny weather and snow that was epic. If you're sitting at your desk saying "man, shredding sounds fun right now" then book a cheap ass flight into Portland, get a car and go to Hood. It's pretty all time right now.

Hike Of Awesome

I ain't a hiker just for a hikes sake. Never have. Always felt like if I was gonna go for a sweaty ass walk up, then the down better be worth it. Last weekend we went up to the cabin and ended up hiking...Saturday, followed the kids up a creek bed behind for over an hour and a half, exploring and what not. Shit was awesome. Next day, a 4.5 mile drive up a mountain road, into the wilderness, then a 2.5 mile hike into the woods to a mountain lake. Both days changed my view on this activity. Me likey now...

Boar on the other hand is too old to hike, he sleeps.

Damn

More damns

38degree mountain water

which makes swimming in it, shrivalling.

Silver Bullet

Creek hike

Mt. Index

Swimming for my life back to shore.  Kids called me a pussy for not jumping in.  Listened to them.  Never again.

Moms on the log jam

Chille

Stevens Bro getting some DER in Aw Gust. Fucker. Nice work Ian.

Kind Of An AWESOME Weak

After all the Euro travel, it dawned on me that I needed a quick rallying of the troops to get all on the same page for the sales season. We got 8 Defenders Of Awesome that travel the cuntry spreading the love and needed them all firing on 8 cylinders. Over the last 4 days all the boys were here. To say my body feels worked from 4 days of entertaining is an understatement.  I'd pick the dudes up at the airport every morning, meet all afternoon, premier D.O.A. in the evening then pretty much sail or wake surf at night, then stuff our face with sauce and food at night.  Drop that batch off at the Aeroport in the morning and do it all over the next day. 

Got to love it when the week starts off with some fresh caught fish from AK that your Interweb bro sends you down, so you can provide good food for the troops. 

Thanks Spencer

Captain Broadwell and the needle

Ship

Kind Sailer

Seattle sucks, don't come here, rains all the time.

Egg, anchoivie and some mahn sauce.  Mmmmmm.

Rockie Mountain New York

Midwestern Southeast

A New Englander waiting for the hurricane to hit

Racine, Tee-Door, Capt Montgomery, Klocker, Giggles Bradley

Fucking huge dude

Hmmmm, nice even in clouds.

DOG Of Awesome

Quilled!

Summer Sk8 progress...

Zumiez in Tannersville PA

Mall love for Sleepy. Thanks Mike D.

Brotherly Love

This GEM was on the camera.  Scenerio, Mom's somewhere, Mac's got music going, camera's rolling, filming his sweet ass dance moves, and them Milo decides to improvise the lyrics.  Nothing but Brotherly Love here.

POWER SLIDE.

Den VaH

Man oh man, the Medical Weed Medicine thing here is in over drive.  We couldn't drive down the street without seeing a dozen or so Medicine shops.  I guess the Denver population is incredibly unhealthy and sickly thus they need so much medicine.  Buds on Federal, Tea Pots, Weed Wonderz, Sativa Savages...man all these medicine shops have such catchy names.  Apparently theres more weed stores than Starfucks.  Amazing.  "Man, I could use a Frappeachino but fuck it, lets get baked instead?"  Really?
Anyway came out to dirty ole Denvah for a SIA meeting.  After the meeting, off we went to meet our bro's at Emage to give em a sneak peak of Defenders Of Awesome.  After the show, the real show started...enjoy.

 Medicine

 Kind Brother and Phil

 Mamma Hades came out to watch Defenders Of Awesome for the first time.

 Sean

 Awesomeness is in danger.  Defend IT!

 Razor wire, exhaust fans, and security cameras around a warehouse that smelt like, weed.  Hmmmm.

 After dinner, this shit started.  Scary-okee.  This 50 year old from Kansas got up and sang Nine Inch Nails, head like a hole.  Holy shit.  Hows that KIT? 

 Dude running the Scary-Oh-Key turns the screen around and shows the crowd this.  Then goes, "this is the face you make when you take it in the ass for the first time."  Uhhh, ok.  Boys, we COULD be in the wrong bar.

 This guy was introduced as the "Nig Lebowski."  Another one that put a silence on all of us, and then we asked each other, "did he really just get introduced as that?"  Lebowski sang some nasty ass Sade regardless.

 Denver, needs more medicine I think.  Lots of sick people.

Kenny Chimps

"It's like Kenny Chimps.  You don't go to the zoo and find the fucking chimp in the...you know.  Your not looking for chimps in his little cage, your looking for Kenny Chimps in his natural element.  Look at him up there hopping around by himself."  Joel Frasier
Ohhh, peep that GOLDEN DVD at the end of the trailer.  Cause that's what's up.

Pick your poisen

Vids are live.  Enjoy.

Micro Scope - Kids shred 115cm 125cm 135cm

Space Metal Fantasy FK Womans, Flat kick, freestyle killer 143cm 145cm 147cm 149cm

Board of choice for Jess Kimura.

Board of choice for Milo and Mac.

Saturnia Womans Cambered Shred everything deck 140cm 143cm 146cm 149cm 152cm

Board of choice for Laura Hadar.

Stairmaster: Cambered, Affordable, Transworld good wood winner, Park killer of Everything 144cm 148cm 152cm 156cm 159cm 152cm wide 156cm wide

Board of choice for Phil Jacques.

Horrorscope FK: Flat Kick, Park Jib Machine! 145cm 147cm 149cm 151cm 153cm 155cm 157cm 151cm wide 155cm wide

Board of choice for Cale Zima, Phil Jacques, TJ Schneider.

N.A.S: Cambered, Affordable, 2 time top 5 trasnworld good wood winner, All around shred for the Normal dude that rips ! 153cm 155cm 157cm 159cm 161cm

Board of choice for Dustin Craven (pipe), TJ Schneider (pipe), Ben Pelligrino (Banked Slalom).

Midlife Zero: Zero camber, Mid wide, All around fun shred. 151cm 155cm 158cm

Board of choice for TJ Schneider , Phil Jacques

Indoor Survival FK: Flat kick, Shred everything, Transworld good wood and Snowboarder Mag Platinum pick winner. 150cm 152cm 154cm 156cm 158cm 160cm

Board of choice for Phil Jacques, Brandon Cocard, TJ Schneider.

Outdoor Living: Cambered version of the Indoor Survival FK. 152cm 154cm 156cm 158cm 160cm

Charlie Slasher FK: Flat Kick, Tapered Pow Slasher ! 154cm 158cm 164cm

Board of choice for everyone when riding pow.

Stairmaster Extreme: Cambered, Transworld Good wood winner, Extreme version of the Stairmaster. 148cm 152cm 156cm 159cm 152cm wide 156cm wide.

Board of choice for Scott Blum.

Ultrafear FK: Flat Kick, Limited Edition, Freestyle shred. 147cm 151cm 153cm 155cm 157cm.

Board of choice for Scott Stevens, Cale Zima, TJ Schneider.

Totally FK'n Awesome: Hybrid camber, All around KILLER! 153cm 155cm 157cm 159cm 161cm

Board of choice for Dustin Craven, Brandon Cocard, Phil Jacques, TJ Schneider.

Green Machine FK: Flat Kick, Eco friendly version of the Indoor Survival FK. 152cm 154cm 156cm 158cm

Board of choice for TJ Schneider, Phil Jaques.

Black Snowboard of Death: Hybrid camber, Freestyle Beast! 156cm 159cm 162cm 165cm

Board of choice for Dan Brisse, TJ Schneider.

C3-SuperPro Clinic Vids

CAPiTA Clinic vids are done. TJ and The Snowboard Realms filmed, produced and edited all of them too.  Here's a little sampling of what's about to drop.

Matty Awesome

Stevens Pass homie, Matt Wainhouse winter edit.  Dude is soooo fun to watch. Spencer Tamblyn like board handling skills, for those of you who know who the ORIGINAL FLYING TOMATO is.
Matts an all terrain ripper, zero ego and generally just a good kid.  His parents should be proud.  Thanks Matt.

Vanilla Brown Bear

Philly Jacques, defending AWESOME at all costs.  If it was easy, everyone would be doing it.

Neeks

Niko and I watching a pirated copy of Defenders Of Awesome. 

7th Annual Oyster Fest

We got some "do gooder" friends in the soccer, school and swim team circle that throw a little hoe down every summer.  7 years ago, they won a raffle with a heap of sea food and instead of eating it all themselfs, they had a festival for all their friends, took donations and passed it on to a food charity of their choosing.  Well the dude that put up the seafood prize dug the idea, let them use his land on Sammish Island and told them that he would donate the food again next year if they continued to pay it forward.  Well, it took us 3 years of invites to pull our heads out of our asses and up we went on Saturday to Oyster Fest.

The schedule of events...didn't miss one of them.

Geoduck Ceviche

Over a doze of these went down the gullet, no tequila needed.

Sauce for the little necks.

Fried oysters, oh man.

Crabz

6PM tradition, kids fire themselfs off the pier.

Kayaks, canoes, and rafts were going with the kids all day.  Macs arms fell off on Sunday from all his rowing.

"Hey, can you drive home?  I'm a dozen beers deep!"

In the end there were 30-40 families that showed up, and they raised over $8G for Teen Feed organization.  Me...so much rich food, classic over-in-dulgence on my part and I spent the better part of yesterday playing solitare on the toilet.  Well worth it though.  Thanks Rick and Jen.