Touring with Cowboy

Got to roll out with my old friend, UAC avalanche forecaster and father of the splitboard Brett "Cowboy" Kobernik. Cowboy witnessed a couple pretty major slides yesterday (check out the UAC site for pics and details here) so he was ready to just get some floaty pow turns today... fine by me!

Small release in Silverfork shot yesterday from Guardsman Pass

Ran into Mrs. Moose and Jr. Moose right off the bat

My view for most of the day

Cowboy is a wealth of knowledge and experience and a non-stop comedy routine

Time for a hasty pit to check out the situation

Things are still pretty thin out there

Block release with little effort

Cowboy insisted that you need to taste the facets to confirm that they are bad... haha

Artsy status

Found a little zone with some surface cracks

Closer up shot of the surface cracking

CowMan gives our first line a thumbs up

That was nice

Soooo artsy

CowMan found a safe spot to try to get some collapsing

The zone seemed like it had already dropped so we dug a pit to check it out

Here's a quick video of the release we got in our last pit

Winter?

As hard as I've been trying to make it happen, it just doesn't seem like winter yet

Alta looking pretty bleak

Since it's so summer-like out there I figured I'd post up a vid of bike riding.... here on my Vimeo page

I'm Back

Yes, it has been a long time since I remembered the password to this Blog, but now I'm back. Suck it.

1st Snowboarder Mag Post

Now that homey Evan has moved over to Snowboarder Magazine their website has gotten way more legit. Got some photos and a little write up on there so check it out here. Some of the photos you've already seen, maybe some you haven't. More to come soon...

Chain Gang Steez

Ever seen The Shawshank Redemption? You know how the warden has this army of inmate workers doing all kinds of construction projects? Camp Improvement week is a lot like that. Everyone's got a shovel or a hammer or something in their hands pitching in to make Camp what it is; pretty sick. But all work and no play... you know how the saying goes, well, it's kind of appropriate seeing as some of The Shining was filmed up the road at Timberline. So to stay sane the staff has been throwing down mega skate sessions in the indoor park and cutting a little loose around The Ark. The other night after an early, rowdy start the party slowly moved to the back of The Ark for a bonfire. A few of us stragglers were still out front rolling some C-Lo later on around midnight when a procession of cop cars (the whole Sandy PD as it turns out) led by Tim himself rolled up. Nice. Sounds like they don't want the shenanigans to get too out of hand this year. We finally got the rails up to the zone the other day and got the first load of campers in today and it's dumping on the hill. Should be an interesting summer, at least it's still raining....


Here's a fun project, change a sled track on a crushed stone driveway with a raggety-assed half tool set. At least it stopped raining for like 23 minutes

If you look, even places like The Ark can be beautiful. My bathroom window view

This one is out my bedroom window a couple days later

Legge and Grinch holdin' down #10 at The Ark

Getting closer, load em up, ship em

Hood peeks out over Timberline Lodge

Seriously? This guy's in charge?

Anybody want a print? Support me homey, Diggers don't make shit!!! (notice the piff hit floating off in the lower right corner...)

John John and Borland lurking like stoney Ewoks in the forest

When we brought the rails up we broke through the clouds to some unfamiliar sun. This is the ski camp park

Siebs celebrates the sunlight under the peak of Hood

Some more art for your ass

Just another brick in the wall.....

"Total infinity bro, I'm tripping out..."