december snowskates

Monday, February 7, 2011

TR - Cortina Valley

...earlier in the week Matt contacted me about a plan his friends had about making some runs on a abandon ski resort using AT skis and skins... Sounded like a real good plan ... So superbowl Sunday we cruised up early with a bunch of snowskates to make some laps with them ... Everything was perfect except for a 1/2 inch layer of ice that fell over 2 feet of perfect snow the night before ...partial bummer ...the powdersurfer got shelved ... But as day went the snowmobiles groomed the snot out of the trails and the bi-decks came to life...matt's first day on a bideck was inspiring.. And Jeremy was shredding in-between alaia surfing discussions, he surfs a slab of wood with no fins all winter, so riding a board with no straps is a walk in the park for him.. The riding got better and better as the day went... The weirdest part of the day was going inside the base lodges' bar that was still in operation (think shining) and upon entering there was two snowskates sitting on the floor.. My kind of place ...

The defunct resort brochure

Actually printed snowskating as a on "mountain" activity .. And here was two left over singles from there rental...

Drive up

Private groomers

Luckily ...The sleds crushed the the slabby crusted over pow into resort grooming ...

Matt gas's it over the propane tank

Matt's friends skinning it

Jeremy stoked to take his first run

Still life

Posthole fatigue

Dinosaur in the tar pit

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

obluff

box session from obluff on Vimeo.

Sean K. sent this vid. in today...nice look at his backyard set-up and the crew...Sean rides a december single deck, and I believe i saw a icon single deck in this clip also... very nice looking video...looks like these guys have been getting lots of snow this season ...i think his area got 10" last night...thanks sean really well done