Yep, the scallywags have a boardin’ show going on Volcom’s StoneYour.TV, check it out here.

Was at Mammoth last weekend, damn it’s filled in. Twenty foot cliffs are now just rolls on the hill, looks to be a good spring there. Hadn’t ridden pipe yet this year and skipped into the duper pipe, woooo it’s fast and dialed. One of the best pipes I’ve ridden in years straight up.  Get out there and give’er a whirl…

Sorry gang, I’ve been away from the matrix for quite some.  New pics and fun to come I promise.  Meanwhile, I spotted signs of the elusive boardasfuck celebrity Donny Stevens the other day.  He must have been prowling for nubian princesses at the Ladysmith Black Mambazo concert in Durango.  All I saw was his truck….

The Westridge Park is back at Summit. Hit it in the day or go get your night board on there, it?ll be dope.

Analog hosted a little kick off session to celebrate last Saturday.

Downing was lurking and killing it. Good times?

With foot funk awry, I boarded the last trip to ThirtyTwo?s boot camp at Tamarack Resort, Idaho to check out their newest boots and the launch of their new outerwear line. After the crew amassed (a slew of some 30 shredders) and a couple bad boy sodas were consumed, the town of Boise quickly dissolved as we made the trek and winded along the Payette River to the resort. After living in the Nevadan desert I?d gotten used to the seemingly expansive nothingness of high country desert locales, but rolling through Idaho seemed an even larger extension of expansive, elevated sagebrush. A couple hours later we arrived to fresh gear from the ThirtyTwo crew and custom boot fitting to dial our dogs in for a couple days of riding.

And as far as the traditional meaning of ?boot camp? goes, well, this couldn?t have been further from drill sergeants and pushups. ThirtyTwo had a deluxe setup with loads of boots and product to test out, not to mention personal chefs and a masseuse! Full-on living the dream. They truly gave back to their reps and retailers with a nice break and the lowdown on all the new product.

Tamarack was a trip. A beautiful mountain splitting the valley and lakes below, and the inversion layer during the trip created a cold, foggy lowland, but a sunny and warm upper mountain (one day it was 0 degrees at the bottom and 38 up top, crazy eh?) Even for a holiday weekend, the place was barely rustling, which made it all the better for an intimate time with mountain. With easy hike to zones, over 5,000 acres of backcountry terrain, a cat operation and a pretty damn good park, the place is a gem.

Aside from our rowdy group, the place was quietly rustling; enough to the point where it made many question the resort?s standing. Maybe a weary sign or economics, or just a nice tucked away resort? Hopefully the latter, but later we were told that they are going through some tough financial times, and the stalled construction, skeletal buildings and vacant vacation homes certainly provided a clue. On the other hand, the place is only five years old so could just be working through the kinks. Either way, the place is definitely worth checking out be it summer or winter. There?s a ton of stuff to do and a pretty rad hot springs a short drive away.

A huge thanks to Tamarack, the chefs, Nadine, and everyone at Sole Tech and ThirtyTwo!

For more, check the post from TransWorld Business and the links below.

thirtytwo.com
tamarackidaho.com
goldforkhotsprings.com

Boozin while crusin’, or maybe just sloshing around the lodge écouter shred will get you rolled in Aspen for a SWI (shredding while intoxicated) and a personal ride home form the deputies. Check the excerpt from the Aspen Daily News below:

A snowboarder who authorities say couldn?t wait for apres ski to get his drink on got slapped with a criminal charge last Thursday afternoon. After receiving a report of a drunk schusser from the ski patrol on Aspen Mountain, two sheriff?s deputies responded to the gondola plaza. A lift operator there identified a 20-year-old Aspen man with hooch on his breath, who had allegedly also ?accosted? a woman in the lift line.

The liftie said the man had not necessarily been hitting the slopes, but had apparently been hitting the bottle and riding the gondola while drunk. Riding in a gondola or on a lift while boozed-up, it turns out, is in itself a violation of Colorado?s Skier Safety Act. (Highlands closing day revelers, be warned).

The man was summonsed for skiing while intoxicated before a deputy drove him home.

There’s been a lot of garble about avalanches this winter since hefty wallops of snow layered much if the west. Here are some numbers to back that talk:

Excerpt From the Durango Herald Newspaper

“The Colorado Avalanche Information Center in Boulder said weather observers, ski areas and CDOT have reported a total of 130 avalanches since Christmas Day in the northern San Juan Mountains. And observations represent only about 10 percent of the total number of avalanches believed to be occurring in an area, said Scott Toepfer, an avalanche forecaster.”

That means 1,300 slides just in the little pocket of Southwest Colorado!  So read up, or better yet go visit an avalanche course near you….

http://www.avalanche-center.org/Education/Courses/list.php?frommonth=2008-10&fromday=01&tomonth=2009-05&today=31&state=%25&course=%25&Search=Search

http://www.fsavalanche.com
http://www.avalanche.ca

Look at this lucky find I discovered at the local thrift store.  Must have packed up carve stick when they hit Oceanside.

Homeboy slipped through a chairlift at Vail last Friday. Just dangling there in the frosty nude, luckily his ski caught him from a cold pole jam in the thickets below…

Check the article here

Yep, laid up on the couch for the holidays. Got swashbuckled by a stump at Mt. Baldy, REALLY lucky actually.  Could have been way worse.  Instead I just have some down time and a numb knee.

A nice plump grapefruit.

A little bruised later..

Then it filled up like a soggy hot dog. My whole leg turned into a frickin kankle.

Sorry I couldn’t help dig the car out mom

See you soon winter…