I just wanted to add some picts of the blue skies returning... but hopefully we will get some more really soon!

Labels: Snow Pictures, Winter

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Early Season Pow Shred

Woke up super early this morning to meet a bunch of friends for some early season pow at Brontosaurus. Didn't actually starting filming until the pow was baked and tracked. No bangers here. Just Fun


Early Season Pow Clips from Joshua Parker on Vimeo.

Labels: Early Season Pow, Tahoe Danger Zone, Travel, Winter

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Sam knee deep!

Labels: Mount Rose, Snowboard, Travel, Winter

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 Zak.Shelhamer
Sick dudes!

# : November 4, 2008 6:17 PM

 

 Zak.Shelhamer
Sick dudes!

# : November 4, 2008 6:17 PM

 

 Tim
So jealous. Damn 9-5.

# : November 5, 2008 9:48 AM

 

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Opening Thursday, November 6, 2008

We have received over a foot of snow and the mountain is ready for you to shred. Lift tickets will be availble for a discounted rate of $30 for adults and $15 for a child ages 5-12. Thursday will be your first opportunity to ride the new Castle Peak Quad.

Labels: Boreal Ski Area, Lake Tahoe, Snowboard, Travel, Winter

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GOOD MORNING TO SNOW!! So hopefully everyone is making out to the polls safely this morning. If you live in the Tahoe area you were greeted with a treat of our first real snowfall. Not that this will be enough to get any of the resorts firing up the lifts but rumor has it that Boreal may have a go at it this Friday. We will keep you posted as Shaydar teases us with Tahoe's first resort to open as they usually do. Hopefully once we get some blue back in the sky later today we can go out and snap some updated shots... just to make you drool!

Labels: Boreal Ski Area, Lake Tahoe, Snow, Travel, Winter

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On my drive in this morning I had to pull over and snap this shot of Northstar, hopefully the storm will track our way and help Tahoe start this season off right!

Labels: Lake Tahoe, Northstar at tahoe, Snow, Travel, Truckee, Winter

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At first glance at the Boreal MT Cam it looks like they picked up some snow, hopefully I can go out and nab some other shoots once the sun rises.

Labels: Boreal Ski Area, Lake Tahoe, Travel, Winter

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Back in Ol' Vermont, winter is followed by a long, dreary "mud season" which is then followed by summer. In Tahoe, the season change basically skips spring, and suddenly the snow is gone and the mountain bike is out. It only take a couple trips to the beach to start to forget about winter, at least temporarily. Still, I was happy to be reminded of some fun days this winter tonight, so I thought I'd keep it on everyone's radar with these pix- at work in Tahoe City after a storm this winter. I'm already looking forward to the snow...

Labels: Lake Tahoe Snow, Porters, Tahoe City, Winter

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Days 1 – 4 “The Drive to Heaven”

All in all not bad. However, it’s not for the faint of heart that 2,500+ mile drive from Lake Tahoe to Haines, Alaska on the Alaska – Canada Highway. All’s well going up 5 through Oregon and Washington, but after crossing into Canuck land and finally getting on 97 / Alcan Hwy, it’s just one big high desert for about 1,000 miles heading up through Prince George, BC and finally getting to make the left turn to AK up at Fort Nelson, BC.

Heading west from there it definitely hits you that you are miles from nowhere. I’ve talked to some locals up in the Yukon in places like Watson Lake and Whitehorse and heard some horror stories of this stretch of the Alcan – like people attempting to drive it in -50ºF with 3 feet of visibility in a pounding, white-out blizzard.

So why the drive you might ask? Even with high fuel prices this is the 21st century and we’ve got fancy-dancy things called planes that could wisk me from Reno to Seattle to Juneau and then puddle jump to Haines, AK. Well, when you’re a sledhead like I am, you’ll clearly go to great lengths to have your snowmobile with you up here. Forget the fact that you could be grounded from flying in the heli 6 out of 7 days sitting out the weather up here – that alone is worth the effort to have a sled here – but the riding is sooooo sick here in and of itself that you could come JUST to snowmobile.

I know that might sound sac-religious to heli skiing and snowboarding purists, but dude – with sleds today you can rip powder turns both up AND down the hill – and you can do it on those 6 “down days” that would normally turn into a true “daze”.

Your body can only take so much tequila and scrabble and watching VCR tapes of Raiders of the Lost Ark day after day waiting for some bluebird weather…..

Some quick highlights:

- Left Tahoe at 2pm Monday, 4/7/08

- Three of us – Chappy, Gardner, and Dean – in a 2500 Chevy with 4-sled trailer in tow

- Stopped to see grandparents and dad in Oroville – and snap a bitchin billboard photo

- Gardner drove to Mt. Shasta City, I took over there at 8pm

- I stopped driving 11 hours later at 7am just before the Canadian boarder after powering all night up I-5

- After breakfast, a stop for chains, a 3 ton jack, and a thorough grilling by the usually friendly Canucks – we finally got back on the road about noon and Dean rolled us into Prince George, BC about 10pm for a hot shower and a nap…..32 hours after leaving home

- Wednesday, 4/9/08 we wake up and shove off with Gardner at the helm

- No joke – to blend in with the Canucks, throw on a Peterbilt camo trucker hat and end EVERY sentence with “eh”

- A&W Double Teen burgers with a root beer float…….mmmmmmmmm

- There ain’t shit between Prince George, BC and Fort Nelson, BC – not to mention no shit between Fort Nelson and anywhere else up there to be honest

- Pulled into Watson lake, Yukon about 1am for another hot shower and nap

- Woke up Thursday early for the final push for Haines, AK

- First we stopped at “Sally’s Café” at the junction of Hwy 37 and 1 in the Yukon – and I MOWED through a bacon heavy breakfast that was truly “home cookin” – all time good I tell ya

- Another 6 to 8 road hours and…….voila…....you officially and almost literally enter heaven once you finally see the coastal mountain range

- We even had "Stairway to Heaven" come on the XM just as we made the final turn at Haines Junction for the last hour of our drive.....scroll to the bottom of this post and you'll see what I mean

Labels: Alaska, Snowboard, Snowmobile, Winter

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Porters Snowboard Team Member Brandon Cocard Teaches how to throw a Backside Rodeo at Alpine Meadows Ski area.

Thanks to Brandon's Sponsors: Capita, Union Bindings, Ashbury, Deeluxe and Airblaster & Porters.

Labels: airblaster, Alpine Meadows, Ashbury, Brandon Cocard, Capita, deeluxe boots, Snowboard, Union Bindings, Winter

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Every year around mid February all of the major ski and snowboard brands invite all of the shops around Northern California to go to a resort (this year Kirkwood) and demo NEXT winter's (2009) gear to help shops make decisions of what brands and models they should buy. Unfortunately this year's demo wasn't the best as it was pretty windy and flat light, so we're going to re-test some product in the next couple of weeks with better conditions.


What was good? The party in the Porters condo!! We have a continual supply of East-Coasters that move "west" every season to come to the mecca of riding known as Tahoe. And with them comes some good, ol' fashioned, ingenuity that is born out of the necessity to find fun activities in frigid, long winters at places like the Univeristy of Vermont (UVM) in Burlington (quite conveninetly next to Burton's headquarters).


So with a pick and some hot water, a couple of UVM'ers carved an "ice luge" about 4 feet long into this massive ice melt coming off the roof. Pour a little vodka-cranberry down that sucker.....and repeat.....37 times!!


Awwwwww......good times, good times......

Labels: Kirkwood, Lake Tahoe, Ski Demo, Snowboard Demo, Winter

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 Anonymous
tHE ICE LUGE WAS A WORK OF ART CREATED BY GENIUSES.

# : February 15, 2008 8:31 PM

 

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This is a case of "what were they thinking". On our drive down to Kirkwood yesterday we drove by this car in disbelief of what we thought we had seen so we swung around and took a picture.

Labels: Lake Tahoe, Winter

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 karey
Did you show Dreddy J... he might want his old car back...

# : February 22, 2008 12:47 PM

 

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