I added a couple new (old) clips under snow in the footage section.

I just got back from the best comp of the year, the Nate Chute Hawaiian Classic at Big Mountain. There was a good showing this year with all the Big Mountain kids from past and present returning and more. Saturday they ran the Banked Slalom. The course was super good other than it had been really warm earlier on in the week and then froze super hard the previous day. It was solid boilerplate which made it pretty sketch throughout the race. It ran through the built up boardercross course and then down through the gully. No real banks whatsoever in the gully part just an icy, rutty, bobsled run. It still made for some super fun runs though. The second day was the boardercross and the course was really good. It was perfect snow and the course allowed for passing all the way until the end. After the race about 50 riders busted consecutive methods over the first step up in memory of Nate Chute. The best part of the day may have been rallying together about 40 riders at the summit and bombing North Bowl together. Check out photo collage for all the details.

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Heading up to Big Mountain for the weekend to see who shreds the gully the hardest at the Nate Chute Hawaiian Classic.

Holy Crapoli. Great Falls, Montana gets a skatepark.

Finally, no more periwinkle. There is a little info in the links section and I re-uploaded the old Ecuasite that got erased yesterday.

Unless you don't like scrolling and colored backgrounds, look at this website in Safari or a Mozilla based browser.

I hope you're not running Internet Exporer because this is looking like poo right now.

Lesson learned. So I just came up with this new website design last night. It looks a little too purpley now that I see it on a real monitor compared to that of my laptop. Here is the big error though. I was going through and cleaning all the tons of crap off my server that related to my old site and it just went crazy and started deleting everything. Sucks. Pretty bad. So this is what I have. You might see a lot of missing images in this here Weblog for a while. Sorry 'bout that. So right now the contact section works and the weblog works and that's about it. check back soon.

Currently rocking Infinita Tristeza from the album "Proxima Estacion: Esperanza" by Manu Chao

I headed up to Bridger Bowl yesterday to ride in the (not so) Banked Slalom at the Wild West Shred 'O' Fest. The course started out pretty much as a skied out mogul run a little wider than your traditional Banked Slalom. After about 40 people riding it, it started to smooth out a bit. I botched my first run, but came back with a solid ride on my second run. Not fast enough to beat the hardbooters who, I believe, pulled a 1st, 2nd, 3rd sweep.

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Currently rocking Natural Anthem from the album "Give Up" by The Postal Service

We just got back from a 3 day road trip to beautiful Sun Valley, Idaho, USA to visit the inlaws and some friends. I went in expecting a overpriced mountain and pretentious atmosphere but it was much better than expected. It just happened to snow a solid 13 inches the day before and was completely bluebird on the mountain. Jenny's parents friends have been skiing there since back in the day so they knew all the good stashes. It was bizarre. The Mountain was somewhat busy and the groomers were packed with people but it seems that none of them enjoy skiing off of them. So we pretty much had fresh lines all day. The mountain has massive vertical some sweet glades and rocky lines and I image could have some pretty burly bumps after a couple of days. I have never seen the Sawtooths and Sun Valley is surrounded by an impressive array of large mountains.Check out this 360 view from the top.

The next day everyone opted to go Cross Country skiing which there was an amazing amount of in the area. I wasn't about to front another $66 bucks to ride Sun Valley again so a friend and I decided to check out some backcountry because we had heard it was legendary around Sun Valley. We called up the avalanche report and they said it was insanely dangerous. We opted just to drive out and find a mellow glade or something. Sun Valley is surrounded by some of the best backcountry I've ever seen, right off the road there are ENDLESS lines like 10 minutes out of town. Unfortunately I forgot the camera that day but it IS good. We hiked up a mountain with a pretty mellow incline in the trees. We could see whole bowls that had ripped away across the valley from us. We got near the top and did a Rutch Block Test (spelling?) and right when we cut the back the top 13 inches sheared right off. Then just a little weight and 2 other slabs ripped away.

That evening we walked around town and checked out some boutiques with $280 belts and stuff, had a pretty amazing dinner (18% gratuity included for your convenience) and checked in.

We headed back to Bozeman yesterday. Once we got in Yellowstone I decided I didn't get enough riding in and we pulled over crossed the highway and the wife and I built a little jump and got in some fresh snow. Pretty fun little rest stop.

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