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The 2008~09 season was incredible. We had a whole bunch of cool and unique guys and girls train with us this season and a lot of returning campers pushing their limits as well. Big backcountry jump days, deep powder runs, terrain park improvement, Core night park action, secret pillow fields, cornices, tree runs...you name it, we did it all. From novice riders sliding boxes and riding powder for the first time to seasoned returning campers grabbing their inverts, sticking larger cliffs and every level and experience in between.Good times, great memories, huge improvement and the end of the season video to prove it. From all of the staff and coaches - A huge “Thank You” to all of the great campers who allowed us to be a part of their winter season! It was an amazing season with all of you guys here and keep riding on.

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If you believe in any form of a Heaven -- I swear that we were there today. Think of taking the stretch of Sierra Nevada mountains from Sugar Bowl to Anderson Peak to Tinker Knob and then scooping up all of Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows and continuing right on past Twin Peaks and through Blackwood Canyon and down to Homewood. Now think if that stretch had ZERO trees on it and how differently you'd ride each and every feature and spine and chute and cornice and headwall between those four ski resorts and all the downright delicious backcountry terrain in between. Then put it all on steroids. And quite often we're talking A LOT of steroids. Chute 75? Munchkins? The Palisades? How 'bout all three in the SAME run.......twice over......and only a dozen other people you have to share it with.....oh yeah.....and you have a helicopter as your private chair lift?!

Be on the lookout for tomorrow's post as I finally got my V.I.O. helmet cam situation straightened out and am planning on going out with it today....
And happy April 20th for those counting!

for the rest of chappy's AK post check out http://WWW.PORTERSTAHOE.COM




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So abasin closed yesterday! and man it was sad. snow was still good. I droped a cornice and slid down with no gloves on yea my hands HURT! I finished off the season right around 50 days.... i lost count but i know its right around that mark. It was a blast and now i can't wait to get behind a boat this summer ..... time for boozing chillin and relaxin can't wait to do it all over again!!!


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Just got back yesterday from my trip to CO. Annie & Forrest piled into my car & drove out with me for 8 days of riding. We stayed with Brian in Breck & rode in order:
Breckenridge - icy & snowing, rode mostly parks but got some powder in the afternoon
Vail - POW
Keystone - POW in the *******
Copper - icy & sunny, mostly rode the parks
Beaver Creek - icy & snowing, rode parks all day, by the afternoon we had powder at the top
Vail -POW, first cornice drop!
Keystone - Best POW day of my life! Hiked with Brian to an untouched peak & spent the day in Heaven
Breckenridge - POW at the top but poor visibility due to thick clouds and snow, rode the top, then the t-bar, then finished off in the park





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so this weekend I finally hit 35 days (it could be more but I lost track!) This is more than I have ever done before and I am riding stronger than ever before. I am landing more of my jumps thanks to renee beleiving in me and making me hit shi*t I am to chicken to! And through the trees I am starting to fly. I have hit a few trees but I have managed to slow down before it gets to scary. At vail yesterday i droped a HUGE cornice in Blue Sky and landed it. And no its not lovers leap its the one that you have to hike to for about an hour. you can see it from the lift but not many tracks. (i'll post the pictures of our tracks soon!) I am dropping cliffs with greater ease and getting my boardslides on boxes dialed in. I am so close to flying out of the pipe its scary but I am getting close. Here is to 15 more days for the season I know I can do it and hit my goal of 50 days. and next year I WILL got to SA portillio, Chile here I come.... mmmm some of the most extream inbounds riding ever!!!!


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A total of 65 inches of snow have fallen on Wolf Creek this September and October, allowing the mountain to open on Oct. 26, it's earliest opening ever. I went on the 29th, and I was expecting the typical early-season experience: a couple groomers and a few rails. I was okay with that; I just wanted to make some turns. Wolf Creek, however, exeeded all of my expectations. Those crazy mofos pretty much opened the entire mountain and said 'go ahead and kill yourself if you want.' It was cool. Not only were we ripping lines in October, we were ripping lines through tress (with not many branches sticking out), hucking off cornices (into soft snow), riding blacks (and chasing our slough down them) and having a hell of a time remembering why we live on Colorado's western slope. 

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A total of 65 inches of snow have fallen on Wolf Creek this September and October, allowing the mountain to open on Oct. 26, it's earliest opening ever. I went on the 29th, and I was expecting the typical early-season experience: a couple groomers and a few rails. I was okay with that; I just wanted to make some turns. Wolf Creek, however, exeeded all of my expectations. Those crazy mofos pretty much opened the entire mountain and said 'go ahead and kill yourself if you want.' It was cool. Not only were we ripping lines in October, we were ripping lines through tress (with not many branches sticking out), hucking off cornices (into soft snow), riding blacks (and chasing our slough down them) and having a hell of a time remembering why we live on Colorado's western slope. 

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i'm not beach ready by any means, but i'm here anyways. got into cali yesterday and first thing i did was go and see berta's personal trainer which was actually pretty rad. chile was amazing and i bet you're all jealous. we only had one day to really film because of snow conditions, but boy was that day fun. got a sick front three scorpion off a cornice and some dope slash shots. thanks to hooper, curtes and sus for gtsing the whole time we were there. did more modelling than snowboarding i think, but got to sled a ton which was rad. oh yeah and pisco sour is officially my new favorite drink...i love it. drank way too much pisco and red wine and heard some epic stories. condored it up a ton, played lots of f*ck kill or marry and got some epic quotes. got to hang in santiago for a day and go to the market..you know, got to be a tourist. oh i ate raw meat! man chile's dope. stoked to learn to surf and just chill for the next like three weeks. it's going to be good times. didn't get nominated for rookie, but little e's going to kill it. if she doesn't...i might have to beat some ass!  miss my bitches as always. 

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Snowboarding and skiing are like no other sports because of the dynamics of snow: no two days on the mountain are ever the same. Sunny days are obviously different than riding in storms, but sunny days followed by a frigid night is way different than a sunny day followed by a cloudy night. The following is a list of words that answer the questions, "how was the snow today?," or "how's the snow over that ridge?," or "hows the landing, bra?." The list also includes snow formations, both man-made and natural, and other types of snow encountered on the mountain. To steal a line from Jeremy Jones and make it my own, bottomless-snowblower-pow is the best because it enables people to ride scary shi*t and stay in control doing it, but I'm content as long as the snows soft; soft enough where I turn with my weight and can feel mountain-flow; I hate having to dig my edges in the ground just to make a turn, but I still prefer it to just about everything else. A few of the words are a bit redundant because of jargon, but if you said any of them to a true ski-bum, he or she would what you're talking about. But anyway, here's the list in no order whatsoever. Snow, sleet, flake, pow, powder, bottomless, fluff, dust-on-crust, dusty, twiggy, grassy, base, bottomless-snowblower-pow, corn, sugary, wet, icy, ice, crunchy, choppy, sticky, slush, spring-conditions, un-groomed, groomer, curdaroy (TM of CB), hollow, tree-well, crap, sun-baked, soft, hard, fresh, tracked-up, mogley, spiny, sick, avalanche, slide, avalanche-prone, sensitive, edgy, cornice, mailbox, booter, jump, half-pipe, quarter-pipe, pipe (no shi*t), rocky, traverse, table-top, step-up, east coast-pow, base, slough, slough-smoke, freshies, moguls, bumps, pillow, whirling-vapor-trail, low-light, bombed-out, bumpy, packed powder, hard pack, run-in, the-in, qali, face-shot, wind-lip, columns, first tracks, spines, elbow-deep, neck-deep (I've only felt it once)... If the list gave you a hard-on, that's sick (pun intended). I know there are more, but thats all I can think of right now. Here's some food for thought; snow is the only compound on the planet that can simultaneously be a solid, liquid AND gas.... Summer sucks.

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Tommorow is my birthday!  Who's buying me drinks!? =D

Spent 3 days up at Jay this week, Monday Tuesday and Wednesday.  What a rad mountain! My first run, we drop into the trees, I make two turns and then the next 4 turns I'm completely blind because the snow is pluming overhead!!  And thats only the begining...  There were steep narow chutes in knee deep pow, a 12 foot cornice drop into a ravine, a HUGE backside 180 over a ropejump, inumerable rock drops and tree jibs...  And that was just me, I was riding with 8 other people for the first 2 days! So much good shi*t! What an amazing 3 days... Possibly some of my best days riding ever... Definatly my best days this year have all been at Jay.

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We headed up to the Snowy's for another backcountry boardin' day. Bluebird skies and HIGH winds. We started early and spent most of the morning scouting out the different shoots and bowls. The cornices are at their peak and are HUGE (30'-50') so we got shut out of several. Finally decided on "Main Street" and spent the rest of the day shuttling back to the top and carving some turns.

Upon returning to the summit we found that the cold and high winds had frozen one sleds parking brake, so that sled was immobilized. Another had the throttle frozen open. So we're stuck on the summit trying to work on both in 30-40mph winds and 13 degrees. After a couple hours, and trying everything twice, including pissing on the cables we managed to get the sleds running and down off the summit. Rode around to the shoulder of the peaks and did a few drops off some smaller cornices and called it a day. Backcountry riding is always an adventure!

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What a weekend! If I could convey how incredibly sore I am you might understand. After work Friday I headed out for a going away party for a fellow employee........drinks, food, drinks.....then back to my house for after hours and more drinks.

Saturday, I forced myself to get up for our 9am meeting time. The other three guys showed up around 9-9:15 and we loaded up the snowmobiles and boards, then headed over to Medicine Bow National forest, about 30 miles west of Laramie. 4 guys two sleds and off we go for some backcountry boarding. We spend the morning looking for fresh snow, but much of the mountain was wind blown and hard pack, so we headed over to the chutes near Med Bow peak. We raced the sleds up the shoulder and over to the entrance to the chutes. It was howling and with a board strapped to your back it was difficult to stand without fear of being blown off the mountain. We first checked the "first Street" chute and found the cornice to be about 50 feet high.....now I'm a little crazy, but a 50 foot drop in a near white-out is a little too crazy. So I walked over to the next chute, which had no cornice, and sat down to strap in and Mark rode the sled back down so we could run laps. I started down slowly, luckily, and after about a hundred meter found a wind sculpted section way past 90 degrees, I couldn't tell how far the drop was but the slope was way past ridable, so I took off the board off and hike back out of the chute and over to some less death defying terrain, and had a nice long powder run back down. Unfortunately, I didn't have my camera with me to capture some of these moments.

Then one of the sleds brokedown and I rode back for a tow rope. Several hours and long cold rides later we were all back at the van and loaded up for the ride home. After a few beers and a pizza the soreness and food coma began, but I managed the drive home. The next day, I went cross-country skiing to try to work out some of the kinks and was partly successful, but it is Monday morning and the legs are feeling stiff.

Just another Wyoming weekend!

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Trannys where we have never had them. Our mountain is showing us lines we have subconsciously known were there, but have yet to fully explore as they keep disappearing with the next storm. That shape of a big rock or log that raises the hair on the back of your neck when you come around a blind corner, even though it is now so deeply buried that you will never actually hit it. (or will you)-- still too early in the season to entirely trust what you see. 100 inch rule here in the Rockies. Warm storms dumping wet snow that sticks and conforms creating new windlips, cornices to slash, and perfect snow for landing big drops. The opposite of the Utah snow that lets you sink through all four feet of new, a feeling worse than any hardpack landing. Shocking your knees when they are on your cheek, forearm, or biceps. Great way to start a new year. We are thankful for the good snow and will try not make the mistakes our friends from the north made last year. (The ones that made it rain in a month that should be giving us such a good time. We all know Cnda is rad-A If global warming continues, all you in squampton may be sitting on some pretty nice beach front property, and the sea to sky hwy. Will bring the newest of yuppie scum. Lift serviced extreme golfers- ride to the top and send your ball off the top of old favorites; the Horstman coulior extreme-Par 5 talk to you again

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more melting carnage at on the mountain.

Cornice has a huge booter off the top of it now, and people have poached Marmot 2. I've officially retired my Sansalone and Makinnen boards for the rest of the season. Back to Ridin the 158 Booter. HA!

Still have plans for Backcountry and the summer after Marmot closes, May 9th???

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