steady powder

there's an area upstate about five and half hours away, that gets an anomly type snow..amazing amounts, and its all do to their extremely unique geographic set-up...in some locations they average 300 inches of snow per season or about 25 feet, that's alot of snow for anywhere in the world... it makes a top ten list of US "snowiest towns" not exactly Mt. Baker amounts but somewhere around 7th on most lists..as a kid growing up 'upstate', it was common to hear snow totals in those towns on the nightly news, (they would easily get 5-7' in one week) but over the years living on the coast this area fell off my radar...but recently I came across an image that reminded me of it, and a quick question to SWS about the area confirmed my memory, SWS shared a story that the farmers build houses with exterior doors on the second stories of their house just so they can walk out in the winter...(his brother lives pretty close to the area who confirmed all of this).... check the pictures...thanks to whoever took these shots:

roof shoveling

this is a fullsize truck snowblower...total monster (the only way to clear the local highway)

there has been some amazing backcountry skiing done in this area lately, unbelievable pow, hoping to post more on this soon...and really hoping to ride a powstick there next season

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

SWS snaps from 11/16

S.W. soldo emailed these shots from yesterday...finally wave shots taken with something stronger then my iphone...shots look real nice stevo--thanks

Have some real good news about international shipping... more to come on this topic....but if you live in europe, and you can not find a big enough top deck (because a even the biggest old school skate deck is about 5 to 6 inches to short in length) for your snowskate sub, let me kno..after doing some serious shipping research today...I found out that shipping costs overseas is very reasonable.....(can get 'completes' sent out too...if desired)

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