It's so rad that Tahoe is getting some good storm cycles. I headed out to Alpine Meadows thinking there was going to be a half foot or so and I showed up to find a sick pow day-Go Figure! I went solo and ran into local boy Ian Bigley and a couple of his homies. We got the goods and I busted out the head cam, added some Tom Petty to it and called it a sick day! Hope your enjoying yours! Happy New Year!
-Brendon Drury

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 Zak.Shelhamer
Wow that looks really fun, i'm getting my ticket home today! lets board

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 Eric Asistin
treeslides into pow landings rule.

# : January 3, 2010 9:49 PM

 

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Here is a little edit from a Hike on west shore up Jakes with me and my buddy Tim Weaver! So fun out there right now, I hope everyone likes the song...sometimes you just need a little Stones in the music library! Enjoy and have a good one!

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Sirus is on top of the world!

# : December 30, 2009 1:34 PM

 

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Two Days before Christmas the sun was shining & the East winds were blowing. The holiday crowd slowly started to appear and it was time to find a place where you could be at peace without the crowd. Brandon Cocard, Alex Horgan, Brett Davis & I rallied up to ASI to see what the summit had to offer & decided it was a good call to visit the legendary Terry Kidwell Gulley. The Zone was wind-protected and sunny serving up a nice area for the windblown to accumulate and offer some great roadside distraction cutbacks & off the tops.

The boys had a fun session of slashes & hip transfers. That little gulley offers so much in just a small space. After everyone had thier taste of slashes, we proceeded to pay homage to Kidwell & built up the Quarterpipe for a great session. To be honest, no bangers or covers were made here....just a good time and lots of high fives. The session got even heavier as John Foy, Jason Tackit, Dan Pitbladdo, & Chas Guldemond all shared the gulley and got some as well. the trick of the day seemed to be the backflip as everyone layed one out. find your own roadside distraction & lay one out this holiday season!

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This past October I gave an interview with the Freeride World Tour. Here it is...

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So my friend Jay just sent me this link....nice little vintage action. Check it out.

Chiller USA Maple Ski Ridge Promo Shoot from Steven Chiller on Vimeo.

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 The_Red_Dawn
ha. I grew up going to Maple ridge. My cousin takes ski lessons there now.
the actually had a pipe in the early 90's, (just a ditch with no snowmaking or grooming, but at the time it was awesome)

# : December 29, 2009 5:35 PM

 

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Yesterday my buddy Tim Weaver called me to go on a cool hike down west shore. Him and some other guys had done it earlier in the week and said the snow was still good, so we packed up and started the day. Weaver brought his dog, which made it even more fun! Here are some pics from the summit and I have a head cam edit in the works! Enjoy the snow!
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Here is a Squaw Edit of some Hot Lap Head Cam with my buddy Jake Devine. We also, met up with Ming Poon and Nick Bellarosa! So, despite the good ol east winds that hit us after that last storm we still found some stashes on KT and Headwall at Squaw. Good times with good friends, let's hope for more to come!

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holy smokes that run looks fun!

# : December 26, 2009 6:31 PM

 

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Alaska In December. from UnofficialSquaw on Vimeo.

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It hasn't snowed in a few days and the east winds certainly had their way with much of our new snow. Its times like these that I head for a few zones that I know to be wind protected and holding good cold snow. Today my friend Chris Doyle and I went for a 6 hour backcountry tour and the footage you see here is from our last run of the day. Our first 2 runs were pretty darn good, but this was the least wind affected powder we skied, and it was really fun.

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Sick day this Tuesday good coverage and still some early season features out there. This is a short edit featuring myself and my roommate "The Flying Tele Banana Man".

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Super fun day on Tuesday coverage is getting a lot better and there are still some early season features lurking. Check out this edit of that day featuring myself and my roommate the Fly

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Our NorCal Volcom sales rep is the infamous "big wave" surfer from Santa Cruz named Kenny "Skindog" Collins. Skinny (as he used to be called as a Santa Cruz grom) won the prestigious Billabong XXL Big Wave award in 2007 and often does both paddle in and tow in surfing up the coast a bit at nearby Half Moon Bay's "Mavericks".

Well Skinny sent us these pics the other day, and we couldn't help but pass them on

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Check out Porters Team rider Cody Townsend skiing waves in Maui. That's right you read it correctly "Big Wave Skiing"

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NICE WORK huge air to close-out was sick
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# : December 23, 2009 2:55 PM

 

 jeremy
I would like to try ski kiting on the water. Looks like a fun trip.

# : December 23, 2009 4:51 PM

 

 Tommy G.
Cody...serious you can shred anything...that was gross in a good way

# : December 23, 2009 9:22 PM

 

 Zak.Shelhamer
Nice I've been waiting for this edit to drop, thats pretty sweet!

# : December 24, 2009 7:16 AM

 

 Timy
SSSIiiIICCCKkkkK!!!

# : December 25, 2009 9:08 AM

 

 Rals
thats a sweet idea looks like a lot of fun....i wonder what the surfer kids are going to think about this...

# : December 26, 2009 10:26 AM

 

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Miles Clark, Tim Konrad and myself went out to Squaw the smorning and had a blast skiing the mountain that had almost all of it's terrain accessible. It's not even Christmas yet!!

Unofficial Daily - December 22, 2009 from UnofficialSquaw on Vimeo.

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That last line was so sick. Nice content fellas!!

# : December 23, 2009 9:33 AM

 

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Twelve inches overnight and today the skiing was off the hook. Alpine Meadows was deserted except for the usual suspects and lots of tourists. Who'd've thought that a full parking lot means all day freshies? Anyway, check out this shot of my friend Mike Vaughan hitting a 40 footer today, booyah!Today I also learned a valuable lesson, only put Lithium Batteries (like the instructions say) in your GoPro camera. Regular batteries last for about 2 minutes and might screw up your camera, go figure. I used mine for a few runs today and here's a quick clip from a sweet double I hit today. It was too much fun skiing at Alpine Meadows today! Get some and have fun out there, Happy Holidays!!!

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Sorry, had to change the name! Enjoy.....AGAIN!

Season 2 Episode 5 - "Sk8park" from Nick Visconti on Vimeo.

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Timmy Dutton skiing CII from UnofficialSquaw on Vimeo.

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Sick line Timy!

# : December 22, 2009 12:00 AM

 

 Jim
Timy...you seem to find the most interesting lines...cant wait to see you shred when its not low tide

# : December 22, 2009 8:07 AM

 

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The Breckenridge Dew Tour is officially over and its definitely a new season with a new level of riding. Finals for snowboarding started off with the woman, it was a pretty slow battle and I'm pretty sure that every girl fell in finals but I saw some good stuff go down in practice especially Janna Mayens cab 7's off the toes but south lake tahoe local Jamie Anderson took 1st doing a backside 180 into a switch back 5 to a front 3. On the other side of the table were the guys landing everything possible on a snowboard, a few stand out runs that I saw were Torstein Horgmo's jump line which was switch back 12, front 10 to a back 10.. it was a real treat but unfortunately he scrubbed a few of the rails giving him a 4th place spot just outside the podium. Another impressive jump line I saw was Chas Guldemond's switch back 9 into a front 7 to a backside 12. but the podium was filled with young guns and local killers, 3rd place went to Local Eric Willett wo had some super solid rail tricks and a jump line that was really fun to watch, switch backside 9 into a frontside 1080 to a double backside rodeo. 2nd place Sage Kotsenburg and 1st place Tyler Flanagan are actually the same age (both 16) and both had the same jump line Cab 9, Back 10, Front 10 but Tyler sealed the deal with his rail stunts. Look forward to the next few stops to see what comes of this event. Go to http://www.allisports.com/ to see more about the event. - Zak Shelhamer

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Snack Pack reporting live on the road...diggin it, thanks for the recap

# : December 21, 2009 6:38 AM

 

 Eric Asistin
good work zak!

# : December 21, 2009 2:45 PM

 

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I don’t know exactly when I decided I was willing lay it all out there in search of snowboard lines. The general realization of this had finally dawned on me and I decided it was time to re-up on my avalanche education. Last weekend I attended an AAIRE Level one, avalanche course with ASI out of Truckee. It was fun and informative.

I had taken a similar course about 7 years ago, and wasn’t sure how much I remembered. It was good to touch up. Since that first class 7 years ago, I have gone into the backcountry innumerable times, and had been using what I learned. I felt good that much of the course material had already been drilled into my brain, and that I have been employing a lot of the practices over the years.

The course was mostly geared for first timers and people with very limited experience, but the teachers were knowledgeable and could answer any obscure question that popped into my head. It was hard to miss 3 storm days in a row at squaw, but it was worth it to get back up on my avalanche training.

(Here Jim Conway deploys a BCA airbag Backpack during a technology portion of the TGR course)

I followed this class up with another hosted by TGR at Grand Targhee, Wyoming. It ran from the 15-17 of December and was geared towards basic rescue and first aid on avalanche and other ski related injuries. It was the hardest thing I ever did driving out of Tahoe on KT-22s opening day, but turned out to be worth it, and I did get one run in on KT before I left. I also got in a good day on Friday the 18^th at Targhee. Bluebird over a sea of clouds witht the Grand Teton showing itself in all of its glory.

(The Grand Teton)

I learned so much and I am way more on it in the backcountry. I feel that I owe it not only to myself, but also to the people I ride with. We did half classroom and half on slope drilling on recue scenarios. I only hope I never have to use any of it.

( Sea of clouds/ "Dreams")

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Some west shore urban action. Check out the awesome pictures and GoPro HD footy.

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did you put wood down on the stairs so if you came off early it wouldn't hurt you?

# : December 20, 2009 7:12 PM

 

 Rals
That is a sick looking rail. What was that you used to get speed for it?

# : December 21, 2009 9:24 AM

 

 Nicky B son, aka Turka Lurk
No Wood, it was actually concrete feeling ask Drury how soft it was. We used a bungee, and it was a little sketch

# : December 21, 2009 11:42 AM

 

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Hey guys back in Tahoe: We just got done with our first day of ski cross training over at Innichen/San Candido in Italy. It's really cold. It's -23 Celsius. The course is short and not a lot of jumps due to the lack of snow but we had a great day. Tomorrow is qualifying. All you guys behind me -- wish me good luck. I will keep you guys posted.

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looks like a fun day on the mountain.

# : December 19, 2009 10:37 PM

 

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2009 Winter dew tour slopestyle semi-finals at breck went down with a bang today, mother nature cooperated bringing some real nice sunshine to the slope course. With 28 riders competing for 1 of the 10 spots in finals you know the riding is going to be insane. Norwegian rider Halldor Helgason set the bar with his first run scoring a solid 90.00. His jump line included a switch back 9, back 7 into a front 10 double cork. Following him into finals was Chas Guldemond scoring a 89.00 he did switch back 9, front 7 and backside 1260. A few other stand outs where 16 year old Sage Kotsenburg who did cab 9, font 10 into a back ten double cork which put him into 3rd place going into finals, Breck local Eric Willett was almost heads up with Sage with his run of backside rodeo, switch back 9 to frontside 1080... It was a real treat to watch these guys ride and push the limits of the sport, watching practice I could tell that most of these guys were holding back a few special stunts for finals. Finals will be live on NBC so make sure you go to http://www.allisports.com for more information about the event.

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Ryan (Diggles) Scardigli, several of my other shred buddies and I have a webisode series going on fuel.tv website. The series will be continued throughout the the rest of the season with several episodes coming out every month. Check it out.

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Just wanna thank Horgan and Cocard for coming out and shooting for this, unfortunately I blew it and lost the footage from that day. Both dudes are sick and hopefully will be in future episodes.

# : December 18, 2009 11:16 AM

 

 Anonymous
dude no double corks bro?

# : December 19, 2009 12:31 PM

 

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Note: If slideshow plays choppy wait for it to load and start it over.

The 2009 Dew Tour has started, with a new season upon us and a new level of riding approaching it has been a pure joy to watch these guys throw down. The slope style course starts off with a down rail to a 48' step down jump to a 55' step down to a 65' wedge/table hybrid after the jump line you got a few options but most of the riders I watched hit the flat truck box followed by a flat down box then you finish the course off with a flat bar gap to propane tank. Its a vary long course with tons of little stuff to mess up on, Riders will have to be on their game to put down a run. During the 2 hour practice in the morning I saw plenty of double corks and all sorts of 1260's its going to be one of the most progressive seasons in the history of snowboarding and I am stoked I am right in the middle of it. Make sure you check out http://www.allisports.com/ for more information about the event where you can watch it at. And make sure you check back tomorrow for updated photos and video from Prelims and make sure you follow me on twitter to see live updates as stuff happens.

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The Powder Award Reader's Poll is still going on and here is a reason to go vote...

ENJOY!!! Click HERE to Go Vote Now!!!

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WOW!! I thought it was funny with all the Pro Women Skiers.......but Oprah took the cake for sure.

# : December 17, 2009 12:36 PM

 

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We're pleased to announce that the hardest working man Chas Guldemond has been nominated in Transworld Snowboardings Riders Poll Awards. Chas has been nominated in the Standout of The Year category for his contest prowess during the 08-09 season. Chas is currently on the road right now with a stop in Copper Mountain to participate in the 1st stop of the Dew Tour.
Congrats to Chuck G and good Luck!

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Congrats Chuck!

# : December 17, 2009 9:39 AM

 

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Castle Peak Blower by Miles Clark


Last Thursday, December 10th, Adam Ruscitto and I headed up to Castle Peak just off of Donner Summit in Truckee, CA. It had just snowed about 3 feet of 5% water content snow and we were pumped on the idea of getting in some Colorado style blower turns. One and a half minutes out of the parking lot my Alpine Trekker broke. I decided it could be fixed and somehow stuffed enough sticks into the thing that it miraculously worked. Feeling like MacGyver I continued on with Adam. On top we dug a full profile pit and despite being freaked out by 7 inches of sugar snow facets on the bottom, the snowpack was stable and we dropped in. The first run was a bit funky with some wind effected snow, but fun nevertheless. Our second lap was in a more protected zone and we found that true blower snow we sought. Every turn we made looked like grenades were falling out of our pockets; huge snow explosions everywhere. Satisfied, we started for home, thinking we were strong and fast. Reality was quite different. We ended up on the ridge-top after dark. Luckily, some low clouds rolled in and were reflecting the lights of Boreal Ski Resort down onto us. The ski back to the car was completely surreal with me watching Adam silhouetted against the lights of the ski hill. It was low tide and watching the sparks fly off of our skis as we continually hit rocks was otherworldly. We got back to the car at 6pm (in total darkness) exhausted, but stoked that we’d stashed a couple beers. We drank up and headed to Taco’s Jalisco in Truckee for more beer and some killer Mexican food. We had a few laughs there and plotted our next adventure. (check out the video http://vimeo.com/8213447)




There you go buddy. -Nicky B

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Way to keep it safe guys.

# : December 16, 2009 9:54 PM

 

 jeremy
I know that terrain isn't flat,but helmet cams really do a great job making everything look that way. And where's the progression by the way? If no ones doing a flip off something I don't even want to watch... Just kidding, looked like fun, way to bring numerous video cameras.

# : December 17, 2009 1:23 PM

 

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Labels: Alpine Meadows, backcountry skiing, Backcountry Tahoe, Elan Boomerang, Jeremy Benson, KT-22, Powder Skiing

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 Eric Asistin
Oh yess Benson...The view over to Alpine was quite nice from KT....Glad u got some too.

# : December 15, 2009 10:00 PM

 

 Porters Tahoe
NICE WORK BENSON!!!

# : December 16, 2009 8:41 AM

 

 Nicky B son, aka Turka Lurk
Sick JB, nice line by the way too.

# : December 16, 2009 10:27 AM

 

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The Northern Sierras has been getting pounded with snowfall for the past week. A total of 73 inches has fallen at Squaw Valley USA. After countless hours of snow removal for the past week, I finally decided it was time to take advantage of my new Squaw Valley season pass. Like many other opportunistic individuals, I took advantage of the early season season pass offered by Squaw this summer for the low $369.00 price tag. This pass was just too good a deal to pass up as regular all day adult lift tickets carry the price tag of $83.00! Do the simple math right there & the purchase of the pass pays for itself in just 4 all day tickets.
Many phone calls were made in the morning asking team riders where they were planning to ride. I was able to rally Brendon Drury and Alex Horgan to the cause. Brendon arrived 1st and had to settle his pass situation and I couldn't wait so I decided to do a hot lap up Red dog while he worked his mojo with the pass office. Brendon for sure was blowing it. It really didn't matter at that point as the KT chair was not yet confirmed to open. I did have a feeling it was going to happen as I was on the Red Dog Chair i noticed for a brief minute the KT chair started to churn for a second and I heard a few "hoots" off in the distance. Really?! Could this be happening?! After my quick run down the Dog, I met up with Drury and we bro'd down heavy as the rumor was confirmed...they we're going to crack KT around noon! We decided to take a few laps on Exhibition as to keep a close eye on the KT situation. At 10:30 am, there was a small pack of people already waiting to get the goods on KT. However not enough, to justify us waiting while the day was beautiful and sunny so we decided to take a few more laps. In hindsight there was no regrets with that move, but after just 2 short runs, the like at KT was filling up fast & stacking pretty deep.

Alex finally showed up & it was time to stand in line & get ready. Everywhere you looked you saw smiles from ear to ear in anticipation of he 1st true Pow run of the season. Not to mention it was about to take place on the famed KT, with blue skies on a beautiful mid December day. The thing I love about standing in line on the 1st official Pow day is all the familiar faces you see in line. Old friends that you haven't seen in a while always make it out on days like that. Former PortersTahoe employees Chris Doyle & Alex were in the line up as we caught up on current events. Our Norther California 32 & Airblaster sales rep Eric Wallis was in the lineup as well and as excited and stoked as can be. The Chair finally cracked & it was game on!

Once again, if its on, IT"S ON!











Horgan and I got a chair together & once we downloaded, rushed for our zone of choice and made some great turns. The snow was perfect! I must have waxed just right cause my board felt like a magic carpet. I was riding my LibTech TRS 159 while Horgan was on his Ride DH2. Both perfect boards for the situation having rockered cambers. We nailed slash after slash & pillow after pillow.....Oh damn it was good! DAMN GOOD! After the gut of KT was pretty much tracked, we decided to go up the Funitel and check out the upper mountain. It was also a great time to rest our legs and get to know an older gentleman who has been skiing Squaw since 1972, Dan Kiley. He gave us some past insight to some of his skiing and drinking adventures. I love meeting people like this as they share the same stoke as all of us avid snowboarders & skiers. This guy is 66 years old, fit as can be, and having the time of his life...I hope to be doing the same.

After the ride up, we noticed that we should head over to the saddle to finish out the day. There was still some untouched snow & pillow lines to be had. When we got down in there, I decided to stay behind and snap some shots as I noticed a herd of skiers getting aggro and dropping some questionable lines. They made it out alive & were happy as can be. What more do I have to say...wish you could have been there!

Another note....don't blow it like Drury, his pass situation was still in question as the day ended I finally saw him out in the saddle zone with Andrew Irwin, "Krizzler" & Sammy Lubke. Don't blow the early part of the day cause you don't have your pass lined up.

Labels: Shawn Farmer, Ski Powder, Ski Squaw, Snowboard Powder, Snowboard Squaw

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 Nicky B son, aka Turka Lurk
I hope I a like Dan Kiley someday, Is that him dropping that dicey cliff?

# : December 15, 2009 2:04 PM

 

 Brendon Drury
Solid post and what a day it was once I figured it out! I lagged!

# : December 15, 2009 10:24 PM

 

 Zak.Shelhamer
Dang eric lets see a slide show your taking up all the blog space.. sick photos though

# : December 15, 2009 10:25 PM

 

 Tim Bradley
Wow, looks epic.

# : December 16, 2009 7:20 AM

 

 Eric Asistin
sorry for taking up all the space guys...u can blame webguy for doing that...i just take pictures & write up stuff. Get your shred on!

# : December 16, 2009 10:58 AM

 

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2009 US Snowboarding Grand Prix Finals VIDEO from YoBeat Magazine on Vimeo.

2009 US Snowboard Grand Prix finals are over and it was epic, It was a serious battle between Shaun White and Louie Vito, Danny Davis had a good chance too but he couldn't seem to put down the run he was looking for. This is more then just a contest though, its a chance to be on the US Olympic snowboard team too, Crazy to think that as these competitors go up against each other right now soon they will be on the same team representing America! Well I hope you like this footage, it should be the first on the web from finals because i'm looking around this media room right now and everyone is eating.... and i'm not...

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The mood was light but the level of riding was heavy, during practice for the Grand Prix I saw more crazy tricks get thrown down then I or John Lennon could ever imagine. When semi finals came around I wasn't prepared mentally for what I was going to witness... Some of the hardest falls and sickest tricks I have ever seen, Back to Back double corks are common and flat 1080's are a thing of the past. With 98 riders trying to qualify for Finals then hopefully qualify for the US Olympic team there were only a few stand outs but no doubt in my mind that ANY rider that landed a run would of gotten 1st place just 2 years ago, but the battle remained against Omatic rider Louie Vito and Burton rider Shawn White.. Louie was sitting in first over Shawn after the first run but after round two Shawn snuck in the lead with a solid run including back 9/ double cork 1080, Cab double Flip, F/s 720 into a cab 1080. The competition is intense but there is a clear amount of respect for riders in the air, with every double cork thrown there is an applause and hoot coming from the corral of snowboarders, Stay tuned for the finals tomorrow to see more of Shawn White and Louie Vito battle it out. In addition to the half pipe madness there is the Paul Mitchell progression session, so watch the vid to see Omatic rider Eric Willett test it out for tomorrows expedition. Words/Photos/Video by Zak Shelhamer

Labels: copper mountain, Louie vito, shawn white, US Chevy Grand Prix

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Went up to copper mountain with Andy Finch and shot a few photos for him and made a little edit of him boardin and getting ready for the grand prix

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 Zak.Shelhamer
Sorry its so shaky, I need a new tripod

# : December 12, 2009 12:05 AM

 

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Since I graduated from college it doesn't really seem like I learn all that much. I was bored the other night and I stumbled upon this tv show about snow. With all the new snow we're getting right now its the perfect time to learn about it... Got 45 minutes? Check out the link below...

Labels: Snow

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PortersTahoe team rider, Brendon Drury, teaches us how to link a 360s line...front 3 to back 3. Enjoy!

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 Nicky B son, aka Turka Lurk
I want a trick tip on the Clear mustache

# : December 11, 2009 7:40 PM

 

 horgan
Fantastic use of the A.T.M.L teaching format! Approach, takeoff, landing, and manuever were all explained perfectly. I feel educated!

# : December 13, 2009 7:46 PM

 

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New team member to the PortersTahoe family, Nick Visconti, introduces himself to the world-wide-web via Boreal Mountain Resort.

Labels: Boreal Ski Resort, Nick Visconti, Porters Snowboard Team

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Can you tell what's wrong with this picture?

Labels: ebay, jim gaffigan, Snowboard

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 mtbphoto
those dam rental binders are reversed! who puts the straps on the inside.

# : December 11, 2009 6:44 PM

 

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I scored an Outside Magazine Online interview with a posting of my ski edit by the Levitation Project. Can you say stoked?! Click Here to see the interview.

Labels: Elyse Saugstad, Outside Magazine Interview with Elyse Saugstad, Salomon Skis, Ski Blog, The Levitation Project

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Labels: boogie board, Face Shot, Sand-wich, techno

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 unclepotatohead
YES! great scorpion. A.

# : December 11, 2009 9:02 AM

 

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So here is part 2 of Face Shots and Core Shots. The visibility was a lot better you can see how non crowded squaw was. Pretty sick for early season blower. Its a good thing that I ski on Line's because the fatty base & fatty edge allowed me to blast over the rocks like it was my job. For the record not one core shot in the 2 days of skiing on rocks.

Labels: Full Tilt boots, GoPro HD, Line Sir Francis Bacons, Orage, Porters Tahoe

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On Thursday Tim Konrad(God) came to my room and asked me an electrifying voice if I could have my bags packed by tomorrow morning cause we are going to Juneau, AK to do some heli skiing. I tried to stay as calm as possible with a simple yes response, but shortly after I started to freak out and was totally beside myself. Juneau is my second favorite place in the world, behind Squaw, and I couldn't wait to get there and shred with the UnofficialSquaw Blasters. I was so excited thinking about getting there that I didn't even bother trying to go to sleep that night.

Our plain left early in the morning Friday and the travels all went smooth. We arrived in Juneau around 3pm to find that the sun was already starting to set. We quickly checked into the Travelodge then Kevin Quinn & Jason Mack (Points North Heli) took us over to the NorthStar Heli operations to meet the pilots and check out their hanger. Jay and Mike were are marvelous pilots that were totally down to earth and extremely good at their profession. After getting acquainted with them we met a man that goes by the name Spoon who is the mechanic for all of NorthStar's helis and travels up to Cordova to keep them in shape during the winter with Kevin & J Mack. Spoon explained to us how the A-Star B2 flew and showed us one of the engines that is being rebuilt. It was amazing to see the little engine that gives power to the greatest chair lifts ever. We headed back to the hotel shortly after the show so we could get some rest for day one in Alaska.



We woke up at 7:45 and headed over to the hanger. We had a little bit of time to get ready and wait for the sun to come up. Once we got the OK we loaded up and took off into the mountains. It was some of ours first time in Alaska and some of ours first time skiing this year. So day one was going to be a fun easy day of skiing, Quinner and J Mack made sure of that, not to say that the UnofficialSquaw Blasters didn't help . Quinner and J Mack worked together to find good safe snow to let us rip. We got in some really good runs the first day right outside of the airport in Juneau. The sun set came way to soon and we had to head back earlier than everyone wanted, but it was a super good fun day full of pow skiing.


Day two we set out to a zone that we scoped on the way home the day before. Just as Quinner and J Mack said, it was a super sick zone. The top was mellow and then it turned into a couple steep shoots with a sick win lip at the bottom. We spent the first part of the day getting some shots then at the end we got in some incredible free runs. At the end of the day we posted up on an apposing ridge from a face that we were going to shoot in the morning. The only time the face got sun was right as the sun came up, so we had to know our lines and be ready to go first thing in the morning.



At 8:45 we were ready to get the third day off. There was a little bit of a cloud layer that we weren't sure about, but we headed out to the zone to wait and see what happened. The clouds were slowly moving out of the way of the sun, so to give it some time we took a couple more free runs on the face from the day before. After a couple stunning free runs the cloud cleared the sun and it was game on. Ralph and Arne Backstrom had the the first line of the day. It was a sick face off the top then into one of the shoots that they both skied tandem. Ralph was in front of Arne nuking down the face in between the top line an the shoot. At first I thought they had changed their line last second, but that was not the case. Ralph had mistaken one of the rollers as the begging of the shoot. Without killing any speed Ralph punched it off about a 50'+ cliff into the bottom of the Shoot. My first thought was that Arne was going to punch it straight on to Ralph, but Arne stopped knowing that his brother just sent it into the obis. Ralph had gotten lost in his line a went off something most people would never even look at. To all our surprise Ralph stood up and gave a wave that he was alright. With the heli in the air and money burning up Mattias, Johnny, and I all dropped our lines as quick as possible. Once at the bottom we checked on Ralph and he was fine. His backpack, snowboard, and jacket got banged up and he didn't even have a scrape. It was something that happens in Alaska often and we couldn't have been more happy to see it turn out the way it did. With those lines in our pockets we headed to the other zone that was just starting to get some light.

We got to the second zone of the day and decided to get some free runs in to loosen our nerves from what we had all just witnessed. Once again Quinner and J Mack found the goods and we all couldn't help from screaming as we headed down the fresh pow. Our nerves settled down just in time for some clouds to come ruin the light. We sat and discussed our options and hoped for the best. After scoping two different peaks with the binoculars we decided that if the light was going to go it would only be a short window. With that in mind we headed up to the top of the peak to wait up there. To our luck we only waited for a little bit and the orange Alaskan light came through. We all dropped one by one into the face with a filmer above in the heli. As we all worked our way to the safe zone on the ridge below everyone was speechless and we shared a untainted moment of silence paying our respect to the enormous mountain in front of us. By then it was time to head back to the hanger before the sun went down. We flew past the peak that we were going to ski second and took a photo in our minds for when we make it back for a showdown.



Everyone celebrated a good trip that night in downtown Juneau with some drinks and good food. Our flight left the next morning exceptionally early. It was light enough outside to see the mountains as we flew towards Seattle. The Blasters said their good buys to the gigantic peaks and that we can't wait to see you again. In the Seattle airport we checked the weather to see what was going on back in Squaw. It had snowed a couple feet and at that moment we all started jonsing to get back and shred the mountain that made us the skiers we are today.

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If you watch the whole episode I have a new outro song in the end. Also "Porters at Tahoe" gets put in the credits. The editor Shane sort of blew it on that one but I know he meant to put Porterstahoe.com. Anyways some wacky tricks were thrown down check it out.

Labels: andy parry, Full Tilt boots, Garrett Russell, Line Skis, Line Traveling Circus, Nicky B, Orage, Porters Sports Lake Tahoe, Trew Clothing, will wesson

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 Nathan
always sick. sick beats nick

# : December 9, 2009 4:51 PM

 

 Rals
Traveling Circus rules, Andy, Will, and Garrett sure know how to have fun.

# : December 10, 2009 5:58 PM

 

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Although many explorers, adventurers and professional athletes would like to tout their adventures as grandiose dreams, epic tribulations and great triumphs, we all know mediocrity generally plagues an average amount of missions. This past weekend in Tahoe helped proved the fact that, like people, 49% of adventures are below average.

This particular median escapade started when JT Holmes, Jason Abraham, Elyse Saugstad and I decided to skip out on the White Ribbon of Death on Red Dog at Squaw Valley for one day and mish it down to Carson Pass for a backcountry outing.



Our planned destination. Round Top peak.



My ambitious mind had planned to tackle the Crescent Moon couloir (looker's right chute) in low-tide gnar conditions ala Jeremy Jones.
My eyes upon first arrival then said, "Well low-tide can't even begin to explain how dry that couloir is". Mediocrity was inching its way closer.

Looker's right couloir looking rockier than Tiger Wood's marriage.


So immediately our grandiose dreams were vanquished. But we just got up at 6:00 am, drove an hour and a half and didn't want to ski another day on the W.R.O.D. at Squaw. So we skinned on.

"We're not turning around. We're going that way!"



"We found the low-tide gnar!"



The gnarliest of the gnar. Sketchy-log creek-crossing on loose skins and Alpine Trekkers (aka Alpine Day Wreckers).



Skinning up the mediocre.



Average.




And then the trip got so average that photographerJason Abraham didn't even take his camera out. So there was a total of zero pictures of skiing. Yup. Count that. Zero. We skied right back down our skin track on a solid 20 degree pitch. Whoopee.


So yes, this outing was dramatically anti-climactic. So to leave you all with at least something interesting. Here's a picture of the super-duper famous JT "Birdman" Holmes post-porty-a-potty-poo. It was such an important moment that I had to take a picture of another person taking a picture of JT's post-dump exit. It smelled bad and was his second dump of three that day. Well, I guess that's above average.

Labels: Backcountry, backcountry skiing, Backcountry Tahoe, Cody Townsend, Elyse Saugstad, jason abraham, JT Holmes

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 Eric Asistin
no one go in there for about 35-45 min.

# : December 10, 2009 2:54 PM

 

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So here is a short edit of my first pow day skiing over rocks. I was a lot of fun and super sketchy. The word of the day was carnage because people were sprawled all over the hill searching for their skis. As I rooster tailed by neglecting to help. I had a really hard time seeing what was in front of me so I did fall upon some surprises. Anyways this is part one and it was shot on Monday. Part two will be Tuesday and posted tomorrow.

Labels: Full Tilt boots, Go Pro HD, Line Sir Francis Bacons, Orage, porterstahoe.com

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 Anonymous
word

# : December 9, 2009 12:29 PM

 

 Anonymous
Super fun video -- thanks! Love that shot of you poking your head up amongst the powder-piled picnic tables.

# : December 9, 2009 12:43 PM

 

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I woke up early Monday morning to grey bird sky's and almost a foot of new snow in Northwest Reno. The National Weather service called for substantial amounts of snowfall along the crest of the Sierras and low level valleys even as low as elevations of 200 ft! I received a text message from my sister this morning that they had received snow in the foothills just west of Tracy, Ca. Snow falling in farm towns is a pretty big deal and unheard of, especially in CA. Almost a foot of snow in Reno, NV means that the town will literally shut down as they really do not have the infrastructure & resources to deal with the snow. It also means playtime for all snowboarders looking for urban features to express their riding style.

Labels: Alex Horgan, Brandon Cocard, BURRITOS, ericasistinphoto.com, GET INTO THE VAN, LAKE TAHOE PHOTOGRAPHER, NEVADA WEDDINGS, RAIL RIDING, Reno, RENO PHOTOGRAPHER, TACOS, URBAN SNOWBOARDING

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 Brandon Cocard
sweet photos eric!

# : December 8, 2009 12:27 PM

 

 unclepotatohead
Way to send it early season style! nice shots.

# : December 8, 2009 5:48 PM

 

 MattFongPhoto
Love the taco supreme

# : December 9, 2009 11:47 AM

 

 Anonymous
Cocard your f'in legit.

# : December 10, 2009 9:05 AM

 

 Abro
Super Sick!

# : December 10, 2009 5:15 PM

 

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Dangerzone Season 2 Episode 4 - "Debauchery" from Nick Visconti on Vimeo.

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After a great Turkey Day with Cody's family in the Bay area, we headed up to Tahoe to finally make our first turns for the winter. We didn't care that it would be the one-run, nerve-racking, jockey-posturing racetrack on Red Dog at Squaw, we we're skiing. After a few days of forcing my feet into that old submission of pain and one day of heading to the backcountry with the boys to remind those muscles of what it feels like to skin for hours, Cody and I figured we needed to look elsewhere for snow. What we decided on was the indoor training park of Woodward in Colorado. Wow, that sounds a little funny but it makes perfect sense: we need to work on our tricks before we got to the backcountry when it counts. It took 16 hours of driving before we landed in the high altitude world to get our jibbin' on. Once we arrived and had our first session at Woodward we were beyond excited like kids in a candy store. I had no idea that I could attempt tricks that I watch the gumbi-like park rats make seem effortless from the sidelines. Alas, I'm experiencing 14 again! Luckily this time without the pimples and awkward growth spurts.

Since we happen to be in Colorado staying in Beaver Creek with the fun Salomon rep, David Crane, it only made sense that we check out the men's World Cup 'Birds of Prey' Downhill this weekend. Cody and I were both thrilled to get the chance to see a World Cup Downhill and cheer on our friends that were competing. Neither of us had been to a WC DH before, and since we both specialized in the speed events when we alpine raced this was a special thing to see. The US men fared okay. The real spectacle of the weekend was the young Swiss, Carlo Janka, who won all three events: the Super-Combined, Downhill and Giant Slalom. Someone is on fire during an Olympic year, how convienent!

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 Elizabeth.Bud. Reeder
Yahhhhhh! Vote for me!!


THANK YOU!

# : December 6, 2009 4:53 PM

 

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Labels: Alpine Meadows, Boarder Cross, Errol Kerr, Nate Holland, skiercross

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After some convincing, I was able to get Ruthy to see how much fun can be had in the local swing scene. I have been swinging for a bit longer than Ruth, and I have found the scene very welcoming and the experiences rewarding. My friend and neighbor, Doug, introduced me to swinging. He is really into it, he has swing parties and stuff and swings with all sorts of people in the neighborhood, he swings with men and women and even reaches out to other neighborhoods. It is really a blast. I did not realize all this was going on around me until one day, over at Dougs house, I just opened my mind to it, ignored all the stigma it carries and gave it a try. Here is some video of Ruth, and some photos of us and our swinging friends.

Labels: J.T. Holmes, Lake Tahoe Party, party, Squaw Valley, Swingers, swings

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 Nicky B son, aka Turka Lurk
I want to be a "Swinger"...........looks rad

# : December 6, 2009 9:42 AM

 

 Ruthie
it's a little scary to open your mind to swinging, but once you do it's a great way to have fun with all your friends.

# : December 6, 2009 11:59 AM

 

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Today we loaded up in the helis and set out to shred some POW. It was about a 10-15 minuet flight out to the first zone we skied. The snow was stable/good and light. We took a couple runs there then bumped over to another zone that was a little bit more technical and had some bigger airs.
Once we had our fun there we took off to get are legs completely worked for the day. We landed in a saddle that had a 3,000' cliff on one side and a slope that varied 30-40 degrees or so. We made our way down in sections, making some of the best turns we ever have in Alaska, while our legs burned deep.

Our six hours of daylight was coming to an end at this point, so we slapped some high fives and geaked out for a bit then jumped back in the helis to film one another from them on the way home with the amazing Alaska views.

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Today we (UnofficialSquaw) made it up to Juneau, AK with the Points North Heli guys (Kevin Quinne an J Mack) to do some heliskiing.

We arrived around 1pm Juneau time, checked into our hotel and quickly went over to meet the pilots of the Northstar Heli Company, which is whom we will be flying with for the next three days. After getting a miniature briefing and talking to "The Spoon" about the A Stars engine we went downtown to get some food at The Hanger and ran into some from friends.


We met up with the Bausler's who I met last season out here at guide school and the infamous Ashley an Heather Call. Along with those Johnny B, an Alaska Heliskiing guide, was there. He had flown today and said the conditions are in favor of the riders right now and that it's prime time snow. With that in mind we paid our bill and headed back to the hotel to get ready for some face shots in the morning.

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You bastaards!!!

# : December 5, 2009 12:58 PM

 

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The wait is over. Alpine Meadows is opening Saturday, Dec. 5th. After a couple weeks of snowmaking and grooming in preparation, Alpine will be opening Roundhouse and Meadow chairs. I've already had the pleasure of doing some skiing there and its looking pretty good. If you're lucky you might even get to watch Errol Kerr and Nate Holland practicing their starts and hitting a few gates. Hopefully you bought and Alpine pass when they were cheap, and if you did, maybe I'll see you out there. With a big change in the weather on the way it shouldn't be long until we're all shredding deep pow and wondering what happened to all of our free time...

Labels: Alpine Meadows, Errol Kerr, Jeremy Benson, Nate Holland

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Today was my 19^th Day snowboarding in a row. Three quarters of that has been at ski resorts. This is mostly because we are lacking in the snow department here in Tahoe. Man-made snow is almost the only option and the limited backcountry is boney with sharks’ teeth lurking. It is, however, still fun. Three days ago was my last outing to the only spot on the North shore holding pow with a base.

Jeremy and I hit it early and were the second car at the pullout. A strange storm had come out of nowhere the day before, passing by from West to East and then doubling back on us from the Northeast. It deposited about 3 inches at my house and about 10 inches up high, but as it cleared it brought a powerful East Wind. Sustained winds of 60 miles an hour greeted us on the ridge tops. The top 100 feet of every ridge was scoured to blue ice and at first glance our run was looking grim. We found a spot out of the insanity and started to change over our splitboards.

It was my first day out on my split of the season, but I had little trouble changing over. I was glad to have it on the way up, what had taken us an hour and a half by boot took only 45 minutes skinning. A group of 3 splitboarders came out of nowhere. They informed us they were from South Lake and had come in search of more snow, hopefully with a base underneath. Choosing the southwest slope for their run in hopes of scoring all the windblown had proven a bad idea. Unfortunately there is no base on the aspect the wind had just deposited a foot of cold snow on rocks and dirt. Their boards had taken the brunt of it and they were done for the day.

Having ridden there before we had a good idea of where to find the goods. We tested out a new zone first run with bad results, and ended up riding the remnants of our old tracks, finding the best snow at lower elevation in the trees. A foot plus of A quality snow had been blown in by the wind, and with enough base under it we could build up some speed. I even got a face shot.

It was cool to see other snowboarders out getting it early season, and in fact out of the 6 people we ran into that day 4 were boarders. It must have been a trip for them to be out at some random peak searching for any little bit of snow, and running into Jeremy. I bet it stoked them up. They all seemed to know about, “DEEPER.”

I feel that a splitboard is very different than a normal snowboard, it’s actually a lot like a surfboard. You don’t have to rely on ski resorts, sleds, planes, and helicopters to get your turns. It is a pure form of riding. Of course it costs a bit more than a regular snowboard, but once you have it your set. And compared to a set of skis or a surfboard it’s cheap. The world is your oyster and what we are proving with, “DEEPER” is that you can ride anything. Jones and I talked about it for a while he was saying how he feels the whole experience of splitboarding creates a closer connection to the mountains. It’s true the fresh air, the views, and the little nuances of pitch and snow depth help connect you to where you are, and give you a better run in the end. There is a smooth satisfaction strapping in on top of a rad line when you’ve busted ass to get there.

This knowledge is spreading like wildfire, and people seem to be stoked on what we’re doing. I know that lots of snowboarders have been splitboarding for years. But, soon there may be a day when snowboarders outnumber skiers on Teton Pass. So let the revolution begin.

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 Reno Craigslist Business
Yeah, our boards took a beating that day for sure! The snow is much thinner on the North Shore than where we have been riding in South Lake. We ended up finding some excellent turns on the Monday after that storm which produced less core shots.

# : December 5, 2009 5:24 PM

 

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It feels so good to be able to go snowboarding and express yourself through an activity in the outdoors and it always feels so good doing things for others right? Helping people out with whatever they may need but often its hard to find an outlet to make this happen.

The addiction we all have to our sports comes from the something that each of us get from it, this something had to come from an opportunity to be able to even try the sport in the first place. ProjectSnow is the outlet for us in the Tahoe area to have the opportunity to share our sport and the things that come from it with a kid who might not otherwise ever get that chance. You can combine what you love to do and doing something for someone else all in one!

Check out the Website, you can sign up to be a volunteer, donate if you can't make any of the dates, or just know about whats going on and maybe you know someone else that might wanna help! I'm personally way excited to be a part of it, so maybe I'll see ya out there!!

www.projectsnow.org

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The new Snowboarder Magazine Photo Annual is out...go get yours.

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Get that snow blower fired up and pray the we don't get the sierra bitch slap b/c it could be on!!!

Labels: Lake Tahoe Snow, Winter Storm Warning

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I LOVE FLY FISHING!!!


While I was out in Utah getting ready for this upcoming season, in between gym sessions I would run off to the rivers to relax. Jason Hale, my brother Pat, and I found some pretty good fishing throughout the two months we were out there. To be honest, it was some of the best fishing of my life. We hit all the major hot spots and caught fish, but when we started to explore of the beaten path we either got skunked or we hit a gold mine. The following photos are from a little river we found that produced huge browns. I could not believe the amount of pigs in this river. One day on the river I pulled up to a proven hole and caught 4 Mr. Bo Bridges in 7 casts (18"-23"). Now that's a fishing story I will tell till I'm in the grave. Hope you enjoy some of the shots




Jason Hale with a PIG


Pat Holland and Mr. Harvey Walbanger

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So I went to Boreal on Sunday to ride with a new addition to the Porters Ski Team Matt Nelson. I also ran into Snowboard Team members Chris Bosco and Alex Horgan. I was playing with the new GoPro HD, which is so sick as you will see. I also ran into "Mad Mike" aka Skier Dad aka Rad Dad. I have not fully introduced myself to him yet but I plan on doing a "Rad Dad" interview with him at some point this winter. I also here his son is a ripping skier as well perhaps we will see more of these local shredders in future Turk a Lurk edits.

Enjoy

Labels: Alex Horgan, Chris Bosco, Courtney Royce, GoPro HD, Line Afterbangs, Matt Nelson, Nicky B, Porters Ski Team, Porters Snowboard Team

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 Bosco
Ha, Alex looks like a bobble head when he's got it on his head. The HD looks way better tho. Sweet edit.

# : December 2, 2009 4:22 PM

 

 matt
that turned out so good! ahah go pro is rad!

# : December 2, 2009 8:58 PM

 

 Nicky B son, aka Turka Lurk
Dam it says Horan's Shnozzle cam.

My Bad Horgan

# : December 3, 2009 10:57 AM

 

 Anonymous
that boy good!!!
nice work nicky

# : December 3, 2009 11:51 AM