boyd hill-----quick peak

...recieved this boyd hill snowskate sub tonight, the construction seems bombproof...can't stop looking at it...hope to post high quality pics soon, the company is so professional, but I'll post more about them shortly....this thing is ready for tomorrows' snowfall

'big' thanks Bryce

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the forecast calls for snow tonight...13-18" ...might be a good powderstick type day....

....here's a photo of Kriss and his son...first time I met Kriss was in Puerto Rico, he was wearing a business suit and driving a rented mini-van, inside the van was the largest boardbag I had ever seen...oh no he's a logger I'm thinking, he was a longboarder, and an egg rider, ....this was over ten years ago when everyone was riding little thrusters....i wasn't prepared to surf longboard like waves the whole trip......but as usual I was way off base with my first impression, Kriss could surf!! he surfed like the way you thought you did, until you actual saw yourself surfing on home video... I always thought that the big move, or the air, or the killer turn was all that matter...Kriss proved that wrong, his clean style exposed the fact that turns look like shit if you enter them all herky jerky...smooth surfing between point A and B translated to good looking surfing.....one thing I learned watching him was style really does count for everything....

as we got out of the water he kept bumping into people he knew, and they were calling him by a nickname, shit I thought, this dude's a ringer...later that night I asked what the nickname meant... he said it was short for a local beach he surfed daily as a grom....the dude is named after a friggen surf beach....you can always tell the kids who grew on the beach, there style is sweeter...I grew up in the woods twenty minutes from a rinky-dink ski resort....I battle with style every session...so stoked Kriss will be riding this powderboard wherever heads this winter ...I'm sure his son will be shredding on whatever he chooses to ride too...

the broom of god


wind came up so hard on the way home the other day, it covered a few farm house in dust and dirt...never a dull weather moment during the winter

singles, powdersurfsticks, bi-decks

NYC SNOWFEST= FUN

LOTS of laughs, lots of smiles, lots of newly stoked snowskaters, it was great day in the big city, I'm glad I made the trek, even though the natural snow didn't show up, (20 minutes further south got 6" of snow, still shaking my head on that) and even though, they didn't blow snow on an actual hillside, the groms didn't care they had a blast on the array of snowskates...it was really great meeting a bunch of different people all with very positive comments on the idea of snowskating..

met the director of the event, very nice guy and even spoke about incorporating snowskating into the rail demo next year... huge thanks to SWS and his family for helping out, and keeping an eye out on all the decks... hahaha

rail jam

bobsledder

groms with decks

father and son demo

Jay-z's ny

NYC winter jam 2010

...recieved a text a couple days ago from my friend SWS about the NYC winter jam festival tomorrow in central park...its a day for people to go to the park and demo xc skiis, snowshoeing and snowboarding... they have a rail demo set-up, and they have been blowing snow all week. I'm gonna try and go and bring a bunch of snowskates so people can demo them... I emailed the director but never heard back,(big shock) so what the heck I'll go and try to weasel my way in, manhattan is only a couple of hours away...

manhattan is on the crux of a storm saturday, it should pick up about 5" of natural snow, with the potential of recieving a foot and a half if the storm jogs only 70 miles further north then expected... gonna try and make it, email If you like to meet for a demo...decembersnowskates@gmail.com

tuesday evening/ wenesday morning

filed under: No Way

Sean sent this pic in the other day, its a shot of his personal snowgun.....after receiving pictures of him robbing ice rinks of their zambonie shavings' to skate back in october, i knew he was serious about snow...... seany team has his own snowmaker...crazy...nicely done sean......ps i want one..
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here's two shots of his team deck after the sintered base has been applied, just needs to be trimmed, sanded, sealed, and gripped.

Lastly, here's a package I've been waiting on forever..... It's four way stretch polartec fleece. This fleece will be divided up and sewn into snowskate board socks....a board sock is a low maintence bag that you slide your skate into and drawstring close...designed to protect your skate, and keep your car or truck clean after a snowy wet session ...so soft and comfy feeling

..... look for it in the near future...

more Trucker HATS have ARRIVED

red TRUCKER hat

Option 1 $13.00 Option 2 $13.00 Option 3 $13.00

includes shipping

Thank You NOTE:

Nick C. and Steve -Lakeside- ...i have a hat for you guys.....

single deck yellow (six and change veneer prototype)

sean's team single proto:
next step: press ptex to the channelled bottom

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one of two gripped and gone

this board is strictly for powder conditions(after a fresh snowfall take a break from your powder bi-deck and surf one of these first)...it needs about 8" of untracked snow to get going

50" x 11.5" maple core, maple topsheet, 4000 gallium clear sintered base, 2mm eva foam deck, leash string, and loaded with wax

... floaty with natural wood flex

this one is for Kriss G.

thanks Kriss...

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surf update..

waves built up on sunday and began to fizzle yesterday, here's a wobbly left from yesterday

any questions shoot an email, decembersnowskates@gmail.com

couple from the shop

Nick was looking to use a small narrow snowboard he obtain from his basement as a powdersub ...he didn't want to mess with the ingretity of the board so he drew up some plans using the existing hole pattern, here's a shot of the plans about to be cutout of a piece of 1/4" thick arcylic (not the strongest stuff, but the scrap fit)...it will be drilled to match a set of trucks of his choice... I can't wait to mail these plates out to him, his backyard looks so perfect to snowskate, and his current ride can't really take advantage of that epic terrain..his lastest deck and this old nidecker sub will be perfect.....the rush is on, time is of the essence..

Sean's team board came out of the press with channels this morning...everything looks A ok...

39" x 9ish ....7.5 plys of maple, four channelled single deck, currently with sidecut (not sure if thats gonna stay) and a hint of camber... it feels real light, next step applying the sintered base under some heavy pressure...

Powdersurfboard NEWS:

If things go according to plan the first december sintered based wood sandwich powdersurfskate will be rushed out tomorrow, and landing in the correct hands just in time to head back on the road for a deep snow excursion this weekend....

thanks for checking in

decembersnowskates@gmail.com

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demonstration day

prototype powdersingle 37" x 9.25" very minimal sidecut (we will see how it works in real powder)

hang heels -december deck FPS sub

local grom not satisfied with the slow start, decides to use a running jumpstart (actual sequence)

STICKBUG

cloudiness of powderstick is actually the clear ptex, the graphic is printed on the wood core, underneath the epoxy and the sintered base

gripped powdersurfer prototype 37" x 9 1/4" (2mm eva foam deck) swallowtail (strictly for powder) results to follow

DEMO QUIVER:

40"bi-deck, mini-powdersurfboard, 40" powderhound single (extended tail), 33" bideck



decembersnowskates@gmail.com

damn chill

this pic sent in from nick, the view from his room, check the natural steps on the edge of that slope...

SWISS ALPS

one from the experimental file

my older brother has been a runner for years, the past twenty years or so he has been running on and off again for one primary reason, to stay in shape for surfing...especially since he's moved inland a bit...lately he has entered a few ultra marathons, but strictly trail races, he has no patience for running on the street any more, luckily he lives in a hilly area with tons of trails that picks up some snow do to its slightly higher elevation...I've been telling him how much "speed hiking", I do when I go powdersnowskating on a local toll road... explaining how light and easy it is to travel with a powdersingle versus a snowboard, and how easily it it would be for him to ride on all his downhills throughout his ten mile runs, I believe it would break up the monotony of the long slogs...he agreed, we talked about a 35" mini-version of a powdersurfskate, that had four holes and one string that would act as a wooden 'string' backpack...he told me the trails by him open up to great big grassy meadows in the middle of a heavily wooded Forest, he added that they were real steep in spots, we both daydream for a minute about the possiblities before we agreed upon a size.....I can picture him running for miles in anticipation of discovering the next great slope which lied around every bend...here's the 'lunchtray' with a computer-aided string mock-up...(i kno this crazy idea is way out there, but steve's game)

string has a quick release button tye (sidenote on the lunchtray 11.5"x27") This exact board was mailed out to British Columbia for a snowskate demo for this saturday....the demo was cancelled due to lack of natural snow in the city of Nelson... which is a bummer for that whole crew out in Nelson...not sure what the future holds for the lunch tray!!!



(surfing sidenote) waves finally came back up on sunday and still hanging on...the bottoms could be better, but still fun...



(production sidenote) working on a truck riser plate for nick, a team single deck for sean, and ordering more wood for a two board powdersurfskate order for a good friend Kriss...
..more to come


email decembersnowskates@gmail.com if you would like to order a board



oh, ..believe this is the one year anniversary for the BLOG...thank you all for checking it out...kev

happy riding...with no form of bindings
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from friday..gripped and gone