
Random shots from a week in Hood summer 2008. Thanks to Big Tim at Windells, Cory/Preston at HCSC and Mark at MHHSC for the camp access...
Clip from random footage found on my old computer. This would have been from when I was living in Breckenridge- 2002-2003...
Random shots from the 2009 season. Thanks to Jorik Blom and Karim Haddid for the pics...
Boreal was the first resort to open in Tahoe- not a bad setup for first day- A couple of p.o.v. shots by Jp Bergeron with a special apperance by Nickoolio...
Flew out for a week in NZ this summer. The weather did NOT cooperate- wind holds and rain days suck. Especially when it ground the helicopter you were planning to ride in.
I did get a comprehensive education on Kiwi beer, rugby and cricket though... Here is a slideshow of what we got done on the 3 days that we got to shoot.
Special thanks to Jorik Blom for the shots and to Remarkables, Cardrona, Treble Cone, Mt Hutt and Coronet Peak for the free tickets. Anna you're the best!
A couple of shots from a short trip to Mt Hood this summer.
Thanks to Big Tim/Windells,Mark Stegall/MHSSC, Cory/HCSC for the access...
first draft. shwerd
So I've been snowboarding for around twelve years or so and had never really questioned my impact on the environment. until four years ago when i was working for the food and bev dept. at the Village. we did the night deliveries to Casper and bear flats. Great resort job by the way, i mean they let me drive a cat, which is super fun. Any way around this time i started to take a minimalist view on life and what i really needed to get by but still have a fulfilling and meaningful life. i started to get rid of things that i didn't need, if i didn't use it on a daily basis or at least a few times a week i probably didn't need it so it had to go. the more i thought about it and looked at my life and my pile of stuff the guiltier i began to feel. i had so much(some of which hardly ever got used), while others have so little. so unloading all my extras if you will, really made me feel good for a while. but the feeling only lasted so long. with winter ending and summer slowly creeping in the gear i use makes a slow change as well. but now i had a new pile of things to sift through and decide what is necessary. for some reason getting rid of my extra clutter just wasn't enough. i needed to make a big change but i didn't know what to do. well the answer for me that year came to in the form of a question. My good friend Adam asked if i wanted to go to New Zealand with him for six months or so. it didn't take long for me to respond, hell yes! some might find it crazy or just plain out dumb to leave Jackson in the winter, which is understandable. we all moved here for the mountains and the snow, not just the epic tubing on Flat creek.... but i needed a change and here it was, six months of summer in the south pacific. I know from a minimalist point of view it does not make sense to fly half way around the world, but i was going to be in a place where i would not need to wear as many layers or sit on a chairlift or drive a cat around the mtn spilling gas, oil, hydrolic fluid and garbage all over. so in my mind the flight was kind of justified, not to mention i haven't had a car for nearly seven years. so while Jackson was having a record breaking snow year i was surfing and skating in New Zealand. trust me it wasn't always easy, picturing all my friends making the pow turns of their life, but that's where i was. after almost six months we returned to the Hole, happy and as refreshed as ever. we brought back knowledge of permaculter and organic farming, and a summers worth of surf and skate memories, which will be with me till the day i die. that summer was a strange transition. mostly it was hard to not be able to share snow stories with everyone that just had the winter of their life. but it was OK because i was in the middle of one of the longest summers of my life. although this summer i had a big decision to make. do i go back to work for the Village or do i just try to buy a pass, or do say forget the resort altogether and stick to the back country. well i didn't get a pass either way, but i didn't forget about the resort completely seeing as snowfall made it almost too dangerous to hike the pass or anywhere else for that matter. I'm lucky enough to have friends that work for the Village and they were kind enough to give me some lift ticket vouchers they receive at the start of the season. i also knew that if i wasn't going to be riding lifts everyday i would need to find a new way to access the mountains. After years of trial and error with boot packing, approach ski's, snowshoeing, i decided it was time to try a split board. so with the snow pack to dangerous for my comfort and skill level i spent a few days riding the lifts at the resort. it was really fun to be surrounded by friends and other people who are genuinely stoked to be playing in the snow not to mention it was Christmas time. once the snow settled we started to get on the split boards, which was going to be my focus anyway. i wanted to be the one responsible for getting me to the top of the mountain. also from a minimalist point of view i already impacted the earth enough with the production and distribution of all my gear and the gas used to get me where i need to start my day. but my selfish desire to explore and ride the deepest pow i can overrides any guilt i may have felt in the past. plus now I'm doing something i feel is a good sustainable decision. and i just want to say i though i knew what bottomless pow was but no, i learned what it really felt like last winter one day in the park. well now the 09,10 winter is upon us and again i have no ski pass. I'm finally finding a happy medium between riding the resort and hiking and skinning which is a good feeling. snowboarding has been a passion of mine for many years now and it was interesting to find a way to keep shredding with out the guilt of destroying the mountain i use and love. Hike Fast, Take Chances, Leave But One Line.....