STOKE THREAD - Page 6

> twizzstyle wrote:This is something I put together for the season. First half is making my foam-core powder skis, the second half is the reason I do this hobby

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd_Q9R04M6A

Nice video!

I live in a pretty rainy place. We just had a pretty nice stretch of sun, so me and my buddy Mark loaded up the yota with some boards,dogs,and beer and headed up the access road of a small mountain behind town.we could see a couple nice patches of snow from downtown so we were stoked.

Truck got almost all the way up the old road, then we bootpacked for while. We found a sweet patch to build a booter. had a shit load of fun. We in our mid 30's but still find ourselves feeling like kids sometimes.

Me kickin out a method over my home town of Prince Rupert.

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Nice shot! Never grow old!

Yesterday, yes May 20th!

http://vimeo.com/66590433

very nice Method! style never grows old..

> Idris wrote:Yesterday, yes May 20th!

http://vimeo.com/66590433
Stop that, you.

It's raining down here in the valley.

> Idris wrote:Yesterday, yes May 20th!

http://vimeo.com/66590433[/quote

Thanks for sharing. That looked amazing! Does the season ever end there?

https://vimeo.com/86067119 first turns on some new skis

link doesn't seem to work hegan ?

> falls wrote:link doesn't seem to work hegan ?

https://vimeo.com/86160916

http://vimeo.com/86773402 valentine's day snow storm on the new pow boards. They are absolutely great in powder.

I figured we need a stoke thread for pic of us and our skis/boards in action. Post up your best action shots from the mountain. The only requirement is the snow sliding equipment in the pic needs to be built by you. Bring on the stoke!!!

BOSS 318 model and me in action

My son on his Mario skis and my three eighteen .07 model in the background.

And i was just trying to find a reason to post random pics

Unfortunately i have no actual action pics...

Heres me not looking stoked, however i am, because this board shape is fun as hell

We just made a stiffer version of the above board, thing makes me smile from ear to ear, biased or not, best board ive ever been on

-Jacob

LOVE the idea of this thread!

I don't have many photos of me skiing, but I have lots of GoPro video (as I'm sure others do... seems like everyone and their brother has a gopro on the mountain now).

I'll try to get some of my videos online.

This video is from last year, not sure if it will work for folks...

http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/ ... 22628&ev=0

My brother came though with a pic. Im in lead, brother is the one with the gopro

Ill have some vid's soon as well, all the ones we have right now are us bombing groomers with 4x to many people on them because thats all the local hill has available.

-Jacob

All I have... Not much. From last March at Okemo. I've since traded the skis for a Adirondack ski chair.

Right on keep them coming in. Come on I know some of you guys have to have some pow shots someplace....

Here are 2 pics from 2 weeks ago... I spent a full week of testing my skis in Revelstoke & Rogers Pass... Some action (=POW) shots will come later !

Today was not the worst day skiing I've ever had. Sunny, deep powder in the Alpental backcountry, basically nobody on the chairlifts.

Here is one from me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia2OjRkuRa4

And here is one from Kevin (he's also on homemade skis):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC_93D6M ... e=youtu.be

Nice twizz. I'm considering a go pro or contour cam for pow days.

All right, here's one action shot... unfortunately the grooming was not that great so we cannot see the skis...

Very nice, yeah I hate it when they forget to groom....

your ski resort sucks big time!

There is more snow in that photo than there is on my local mt.

My brother got distracted adjusting his gopro today, took out one of our buddies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V01SOgfw ... ture=share

Managed to get the camara after that and got a few photo's of myself, less the snow because, welll its new england

-Jacob

> twizzstyle wrote:Today was not the worst day skiing I've ever had. Sunny, deep powder in the Alpental backcountry, basically nobody on the chairlifts.

Here is one from me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia2OjRkuRa4

And here is one from Kevin (he's also on homemade skis):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC_93D6M ... e=youtu.be

Haha twizz, Kevin sounds like I do when I take a dump.

J - Tried to view your video but it's private.

I havnt done a backflip in many years but with my first pair under my feet I just had to try it.

WOW!! thats impressive

I've got to try one on my homemade skis

Sorry no pics but you get to see old Huck eat snow.

Riding the flame board hiking small hills. Winter just started for California this week!

http://vimeo.com/37087552

More importantly PTTR - did you land it?

Here is KevyWevy on his Frumpysticks at Alpental today.

> PTTR wrote:I havnt done a backflip in many years but with my first pair under my feet I just had to try it.

My dad had tips on his skiis like yours. Was that tip design a nod to the past? Very cool. I only tried one back flip and it was bad.

'What goes up must come down'.. but i did overrotate it a bit. Usually happens when I havent done it for long.

I did a lot of 'offroad' crooscountry skiing earlier this winter on a pair of old wooden skis with tips like that and they looked so cool so I had to use it in mine. I call them Modern Antics.

Here's a video of me on my back country skis out in the Sangre de Cristo back country

http://youtu.be/2oDfiu4bAXs

And a video of my buddy on my first set of commission skis

http://youtu.be/qUEJ6n-wxLM

Just found this photo of me skiing on the Eyeball skis during a rad day of backcountry last year in the Cottonwood canyons. Thought it could go here.

And something a bit newer, some more backcountry stoke. Sorry no skiers in here. This is from the Taos backcountry about two weeks ago. Skied the narrow line at the left of the picture on my new Panda Bear skis.

Double post...oops.

Maybe the last powder day for the EC. Temps go way up next week. Maybe we'll still get another storm or two. Fingers crossed

> Vinman wrote:Maybe the last powder day for the EC. Temps go way up next week. Maybe we'll still get another storm or two. Fingers crossed

wow great picture.

How is condition at Smags? I am planning to get over there tomorrow

Conditions will be ok today. It is supposed to warm p significantly. While it stays cold notch OB trees will still be powdery ontop of a very firm base. Soft I spots gnar in others.

double post

Finally got some snow in Squaw. 6 feet in three days filled things in nicely.

Skiing Eagles's Nest(McConkey's) today, navigating the steeps through some pepper.

Nice Dr. Way to kill it.

Nice! I haven't skied anything that steep in many many years. Way to go!

Nice! What skis did you use?

Thanks!

I was skiing my Nukes.

They are my go to ski and I ride them almost every day except for park skiing. I almost brought out my Soul Surfers but the weekend crowds were so bad that I knew there wouldn't be much powder left to ski. I am guessing that Squaw did close to 20,000 skiers on Saturday.

Holy shhhh!!!t How do you know that won't slide?

Generally this rock face is steep enough that most of the time snow doesn't even stick to it very well. Most slides occur at 30-45 degrees pitch and this is close to 60. It takes the right conditions of wind and moisture content to make this skiable where you aren't going to sink down to the rocks.

We had the perfect storm setup last week for this to hold snow. It started out very wet and windy and then gradually got lighter and very deep. I knew that this might be my only chance to ski it this year and it sure was fun!

Respect!

Very good! Steep is the best! All senses at attention!

Big balls my friend!

Got in a day with my son while he was on break. There was a time....

ra

As for me? I'm a bit shy and tend to hide....

ra

Great photos. Those skis look sweet.

I recently got in lots of skiing with my son while he was on break too. I still get nervous watching him throw down in the park.

The snow sure was great a week ago. Right now, not so much. But if you really want to hide in those trees you need one of these:

Any more pics Dr.? The corn is all frozen now but a few days ago was sweet. I like the shot of Rockaukum hanging with his homies.

My regular partner got out with me in this vid.

https://vimeo.com/39108231

Love watching the untracked creamy goodness. Your dog rules. Dare I ask where you were riding?

Let's hope this week pans out for a refresh on the mountains.

Sure. Bigbend exit on I-80. There's 2 slopes to choose from guaranteed untracked. I'll show you the rout sometime if you want. Only a quarter mile flat before the climb.

DD,

Thanks for the words. My son could not decide on graphics so i did it for him. The bases are lime green and blue. Kinda mix and match but he likes them all the same.

That outfit would get me lost for sure!

Huck, nice vid and the area looks great for a nice tour. Have not gotten out much due to the snow pack. You encounter any problems out there this year?

RA

I've been going twice a week for most of the season. Taking the good bad & the ugly in stride. Mostly I've been surprised by how fun the conds. are. I stick to slopes under 40 degrees and haven't seen or heard any instability. Most of our earlier snow came with high winds so powder sniffing in valleys and river beds was the plan. How was your season ? Placerville? Thanks for the kind words on the vid. I guess some people hate pov vids. Especially quick edits.

> NeilG wrote:Just found this photo of me skiing on the Eyeball skis during a rad day of backcountry last year in the Cottonwood canyons. Thought it could go here.

And something a bit newer, some more backcountry stoke. Sorry no skiers in here. This is from the Taos backcountry about two weeks ago. Skied the narrow line at the left of the picture on my new Panda Bear skis.

Sweet! In my hood!

How'd you get over there? The hike from kachina being all off limits and whatnot. Burly trek from Wheeler? I've seen patrol call the forest service cops on people doing lake fork peak..... They're super touchy...

At the bottom of chair four (by that little coffee stand) there's a trail that leads off to William's lake. We skinned up that nearly to William's lake and took a right up the first drainage. Got up to the start of the notch and booted up that. It's a clear view from the top of Kachina so we had a pretty good audience the whole time haha.

Conditions were pretty bomber, given the winter we're having, so we skied some other stuff that weekend too (something I've heard called No-Name?), You go out beyond William's lake somewhere.

I'm not local so it was my first time in the Taos BC, but it was awesome!

https://vimeo.com/39894277

Here's back country stuff from yesterday and april first. We're finally having some great conditions.

Great stuff Huck. Keep it coming. Hopefully we'll have a good corn cycle this spring too.

Ya I love corn in a big way! The run to the car on the day I did the vid had some nice corn also. Corn & pow on the same day!

Here's some fun riding from 2 days ago. That was before it really snowed.

http://vimeo.com/40374849

Nice! That last storm delivered the goods. I cheated though and rode lifts and a snowmobile the past few days.

ENVY ! The peak we're hitting has a cat track to the summit and we're hiking.

I can't immagine how many good runs you've had.

Haha, excellent, thanks for the vid! I can't quite put my finger on the guitarist...

> Brazen wrote:Haha, excellent, thanks for the vid! I can't quite put my finger on the guitarist...

Hey Brett!

That guitarist is John Schofield From I think "up all night" And "uberjam" That's cool we can use that for free in vids.

Here's one from 2 weeks ago using the flame board. I found this area using Google earth and not a track or foot prints for miles. So dropping in to the middle of nowhere had us stoked beyond belief. In the first minute of vid there were pinwheels forming as tall as my partner. Too bad the vid doesn't really show them.

https://vimeo.com/40680008

Ps... Sorry I'm too lazy to do a short edit for the general public.

Nothing special here, some of the same clips I've already posted, but I put together a short little video while I've been day dreaming about winter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM75dQ6Z ... e=youtu.be

> twizzstyle wrote:Nothing special here, some of the same clips I've already posted, but I put together a short little video while I've been day dreaming about winter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM75dQ6Z ... e=youtu.be

Nice. I was day dreaming about skiing today while out on the bike. Once my vacation is over, I'm ready for the cooler weather, followed by snow, at least 5 months away for me.

Thanks for the pow stoke. I crashed so hard on my mountain bike last week, remembering that snow is so much softer than dirt and rocks.

I swear I am going to get up to Washington next year.

A little yesterday stoke! Good fun, warm sun.

https://vimeo.com/52271388

Riding the 155cm with fish scales.

I wish I had a chance to get out but I had to work all week.

Nice work Huck. It looked delicious.

A little vid from yesterday. http://vimeo.com/53245120

SugarBowl got about 18 inches of light stuff. No protection from the rocks below so staying on the trails was important.

Looks like you got the goods again Huck. Unfortunately, I had bad timing with work and got stuck working 12 hour days this past storm. Can you tell that I am jealous?

Day 3 before lifts even open! Nice one.

Looks sweet!

> Dr. Delam wrote:Looks like you got the goods again Huck. Unfortunately, I had bad timing with work and got stuck working 12 hour days this past storm. Can you tell that I am jealous?

That bites. I may be in the same boat soon. Got a job lined up with Sipes Tahoe in Truckee starting soon. I may be shooting night vids soon.

Still chasing down the pow with a home made split. Getting good runs in the back country all winter.

https://vimeo.com/60516985

https://vimeo.com/61054610

A couple of vids of me riding my very first home made board

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCGzivR1 ... A&index=20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCGzivR1 ... A&index=20

this contains a few shots of us in the VT open,

#47 is me, the first banked slalom shot

#45 is richie, team rider, who won the amateur banked slalom

#49 is dave, co owner of blak sheep

#52 is Louis, teamrider got 2nd in banked slalom.

talk about being stoked

http://vimeo.com/62046468

Had a fun day at SAT yesterday. Lot's of slush bumps early and the tree's softened up after lunch. Who did I park next to at the 360 grill?

This is something I put together for the season. First half is making my foam-core powder skis, the second half is the reason I do this hobby

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd_Q9R04M6A

great video!

Great stuff twizz

While this wasn't on homemade skis, this was closing day at my mountain, Cinco de Mayo. I'm the banana.