Since there seems to be so much drama let's counter act that with your last best shred.
That's it- last best shred- nothing else - no saying I could have done it better, you're dumb, that doesn't look like shit, etc.... maybe so but let's just keep it positive and enjoy the chance we have to share with others.
Here is mine, might not be the evidence of the last best shred but the moments just before were definitely the last best shred I've had on the mountain.
It was a nice day, just shy of 50*, soft corn in spots and sugar snow in others. I hit a steep but wide open run and found myself on a nice patch of corn. All of a sudden I was going at such an awesome clip I couldn't stop my self I was having so much fun.
I hit a nice tree patch then out in the open then dead ahead another set of tress to rip through. YA! I thought......
All of a sudden I found myself looking over what I thought would be a nice little dip to ollie over at speed.
Nope- had to slam on the breaks! Damn near took a swim. The picture is the creek I almost swam in. It's probably a 7-9 foot drop with at least a 5 ft width. You can see my tracks where I climbed up.....
Last week in Engelberg, Switzerland. 3 feet of fresh over night, no crowd and we found a closed slope that was all untracked. A bit of flat light unfortunately so the pics aren't that great and had to be played with a lot
Still the best day I've had so far and I was surprised how easily my Coda handled the deep stuff with zero rear leg burn.
^^^ Nice jump. I gotta learn that.... 20 years ago I could easily do the skate ramp jumps and pull off little methods and shit, and ride the half pipe lip to lip, drop in etc...
I can do all of that now on a snowboard except the jumping. Got caught up again tonight on little roller jump and ate shit on the only ice patch in the near vicinity.
Oh well..... with time I guess...
What's up with that lift? Do you have to stand the entire way??
Yea, the lift is a high speed gondola, it holds about 8, but you have to take your board off completely. Kind of annoying, but on the upside there's never a pileup at the top.
That little air was actually off of a small jump they threw into a little park run on the main mountain.. Surprisingly smooth and easy. I haven't gotten into the park as much this year as I would've liked, but I've progressed alot in my all mountain riding.. I especially love those side hits
Its been a fun last few days. No huge dumps but enough here and there combined with some wind transport to keep things fresh.
Here is a shot from above the clouds. Low clouds dont happen to much around here, at least in my experience, so its cool when it does happen. Even if you have to wait to be able to see what your riding.
Heres a tree that I must have passed under a million times before noticing how bad ass it was
One of the guys getting after it, just to prove that I actually ride and am not just a hippy nature photographer
I don't have any pics of my last great shred. I had fun this weekend bombing groomers and popping off lips, finally did some proper 180s in the park. The weekend before that at Lake Louise was my first time hitting a kicker bigger than 20 ft in probably about 10+ years!!! THAT was my best recent shred day...
Here's my last pow porn pic. Not a bad day either! :yahoo:
The GF. Riding a stiff freeride board, about to drop into a double black chute. I think I cried a little!
Same day, part of the "Ultimate Steeps" at Louise: This is one of the runs that gets my adrenaline going! It gets steeper as you enter the chutes on the lower left of the pic.
Big cottonwood really does have really fucking cool trees like that. Espically the older leafless ones. Reminds me of The White Tree of Gondor from lotr :bowdown:
The first pic with the GF we're about to drop into #94, fenceline gully.
The other pic is about halfway down #128 or #129, exit only or freefall. Here's a better pic looking back up at those runs, I'd really like to get into the stuff on the right one of these days! Exit only and freefall are centre-left of this pic.
The fluffy stuff in the video was a huge treat for me. If I'm lucky, I only get to go to the mountains once a year, and am stuff riding on groomer garbage the rest of the time.
i've been having some great days at Bridger Bowl with my kids. My oldest is in his second year of snowboarding and is just now starting to really have it click for him. Pretty darn cool to see. Youngest is skiing and i think we'll still keep him around, for now
my last best shred was early march last year (haven't gone much this year).
We just had about 8" of really cold, light snow the day before, but the wind was blowing it pretty bad, making the terrain look a lot better than it was. Unfortunately, I bought it, headed off the groomers and, SCREECH!, immediately ate shit on a sharp rock barely buried below the surface. The core shot was the worst I've ever had...and on a basically brand new board.
Of course, at first, I was enraged...which morphed into to a "might as well kill this board today" type of mentality. It was only ankle deep and I rode harder that day than I would on an infinitely more forgiving pow day. Did some disgusting drops onto what I knew where rock infested landings and made my loftiest backside 180 ever, in the glades...felt like I was never going to land.
To top it all off, I finally discovered where all the snow had blown. The drifts where knee deep+ and on one of the best/steepest parts of the mtn. At that point, I only had about half an hour before last chair, so I had to really jam to get some laps in - the combination made for some epic bump jumps.
Well I won't go so far as to say I was shredding it all over the mountain since I'm still somewhat of a newbie, but I did get some pics from this past Monday at Stevens.
And yep.. it was as awesome as it looks. :yahoo: :laugh:
I got a few pics & shit, but like others have said.
It's very hard to get a good perspective of how steep it is around you.
This isn't my track, but when I looked over & seen it gleaming in the sun.
I had to get a shot of it.
It was sunny for less than 10 min all day, for the most part it was an insane blizzard with strong enough winds to close Skychair all day.
The plan was to get there for opening today, but I was exhausted.
Didn't wake up until almost noon.
I gotta stop these 12hr snowboard sessions, I can never get up the next day for opening.
I think 9 hours should be plenty?
How can you throw in the towel when it's waist deep?
Where is that? Just got back from SLC- Saw lines like that all over around town. The best one I saw was across from Snowbird- talk about a hike!
Anyways.... nice pic, and line.
Here is a hill right across from Snowbird that I was talking about. People hike for the line.... you have to look close but if you start looking down towards the road it's easy to follow the lines up.
I'm way up at top of the tram, or close, for this shot.
These hills in little cottonwoods are ridiculous. Just mind blowing beauty every which way you look.
Here is a hill right across from Snowbird that I was talking about. People hike for the line.... you have to look close but if you start looking down towards the road it's easy to follow the lines up.
I'm way up at top of the tram, or close, for this shot.
These hills in little cottonwoods are ridiculous. Just mind blowing beauty every which way you look.
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