MT. LICHTENSTEIN

this 'river' proved tough to cross times2.

squeezed one more day out of the shred season last saturday. me, zeekers, special lady, and birthday boy went to a special zone that zeekers and frankles found splitboarding earlier this season. a 'glorious natural halfpipe with stump jibs and hits galore' we were promised by tour guide zeekers. zeekers just got done riding a bike from san diego to austin which i'm told is pretty far to ride a bike. needless to say, he can hike a little faster than the rest of us. the planning of this trip was a mess, but we managed to start hiking out around noon. the weather changed every 5 to 10 minutes but was generally good. we'd have sun, high clouds, graupel (google it if ya don't know), and mixes of those. we were near stevens pass, where about a foot of new snow fell earlier in the week. today that new snow was pretty thick, wet, and slushy, which made for some good exercise while hiking. blah, pics, pics, pics...

i like this sign!

"there's good stuff up here" -chronic belly sweater

snack time!

at one point today i hugged a tree. yup, i gave it a full-on hippy tree hug. only problem is my hug done KILT that tree. the forest found out and tried to kill the birthday boy.

UFF-DA!


hi!

OH CRAP, TOUGH COMPETITION FOR SWITCH POSER OF THE MONTH! LOOKIT THAT SNOW SPRAY!!

GLURG


jump over the sticks!

things i learned today:

-birthday boy thinks bothell is full of hot chicks. birthday boy is nuts.

-special lady is not a huge dairy queen fan

-the monroe fred meyer is great for people watching

-my boots are not waterproof

-i am scared of jumps and not very good at them

FORE!

snowboarding can be a pain in the ass and snowmobiling can be an even bigger pain in the ass. you have to get all your crap ready the night before; food, avy gear, maps, mountain money (aka shit tickets), gas, oil, etc., not to mention extra hats, goggles, gloves, and so on. then you wake up between 5 and 6 am, load up the trailer, drive to friends house, unload sled, reload sled on his trailer, drive 1 to 2 hours ($$gas$$) to get to the snowpark and cross your fingers that it's not icy, foggy, raining, flat light, snowing too hard, pray sled won't break down, etc. with all this crap to deal with each time it gets pretty easy for me to wake up in my warm bed and decide to BAG IT.

well, this past sunday was one of those days that i woke up and was pretty tempted to bag on the stevens pass sled trip that oneshot and swappy had planned. when you're going out to ride in the beginning of may you hope for sunny, slushy conditions. unfortunately today the sky was overcast, it was cold in the city, and i was afraid snow conditions would be similar to those that we had last year when i cracked a rib and bruised my kidney. showed up to oneshots around 8, did the trailer dance and headed to the mountain. the whole way up was wet, gray, and cold. when we made it to the parking lot it was kinda late (10 am'ish) and we were the only car in the lot. 'crap' we thought, are we the only ones in the state stupid enough to go ride in these conditions. we slowly got ready in the lot and a few more bubbas rolled in and swappy arrived. iron man even showed up for a bit!

we eventually started off on the sleds and the snow was pretty soft on the road at the lower elevations. then we got into the fog. flat light with very little depth perception. stoke was low. oneshot stayed motivated and found an area above the fog, which started to lift our spirits.

we set up base camp and oneshot strapped in for the first run of the day. point, point, slash....slash. holy shit, was that a pooh spray? wait, it's not icy? RAD!!

anyways, i got more sled accessed runs that day than ever before and the snow was really good and untracked. not blower pow good, but deep pooh good. and damn friggin good for may 2nd yahurd?

the usual bubba activies were enjoyed: shreddin, beers, smokes, muff-pot delicacies (i.e. hot weiners), gun shootin, sled roopin, and even a little golfing!

here are some pictures!

"hi sman, i'm iron man. you like golf?"


my snowboard has a pretty kitty!



sman getting tubed! he's taking slashin to the next level.


somebody in the no-go zone


hiking is for suckers


slashin the fairway


i got par on this hole. sman double bogey'd it. i lost my ball on the next hole. calling the match a tie.

this is a sweet ride. these skiers were pretty damn good.

sick drop bro!

nice slash too!

what the hell is all that damn rattling?! oh, oops.

here's another version of what went down: http://oneshotproduction.net/reports/050210.html

DOPPLEGANGERS!

VS.

OR

VS

LIKE, WHOA

PROOF I'M OLD

this is a really crappy color to paint over. really, really crappy. not too stoked with the previous owners of this domicile, yahurd. 1 gallon of KILZ so far. DAMN ARTIST HIPPIES!

i took a composting class with T-DOH. worms poop in here. worm poops are the best!


i guess this is what i do now instead of snowboarding.

THE HOOD STORE

oh man, oh man, oh man! that's a pretty sweet astro.

if you think this van is awesome you have to check their website.

http://www.toureapparel.com/

also, should i buy this?

MEMORY BANKS

back in early march i went on the only shred road trip of the season with a bud. we rode mt. hood meadows and mt. bachelor. no pow, mostly park riding. we both got injured at bachelor. it's been a while so i don't remember all the stories too well. these pics are to remind me of a fun trip when i scroll through old postings next year...

detroit lakes nature zone, beer break

hip jump to ankle tweak. what you can't see is the kid that snaked me on this hit and almost got taken out when i ate isht.

backward goggle bachelor bar pretty boy

poseur of the month? poseur of the year? nah, SWITCH POSEUR OF THE YEAR!

shopping tax free in OR!

one of 3 stunt ditches ridden on this trip. what is wrong with this u-tube?

HO HO HO

grasser/cranker/method/not bad for a nethod/RDRR

rock'n'roll volcano

INTERNETS!

i got the internets at my house today!


here are some picutures of my yard! there are lots of bees in my yard, it is dangerous! today i caught a cat trespassing.

more yard


purple thing with lots of bees



japanese maple


yard


yup


more flowers


i'm pretty sure i don't get any credit for the yard since all i did was buy it, but i think it's pretty neat.