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Pushing for Perfection

Hey Jibbers and Jumpers,
The past couple of weeks in The Parks have been really exciting times for everyone. We've seen lots of sun and snow. Our Parks are now pretty much built to capacity, giving our teams the opportunity to really pimp out our features. We've been switching rails and jumps in and out to keep things fresh. Both mountains are changing daily. The Showcase Showdown this year was a huge success. Big shout out to Brad Broughton from the shop, and his team of volunteers for their help with design and building. The Atomic Supercross is this weekend; results to come.

On Blackcomb
- The Snowcross track has a new line this year that everyone should check it out. The course is open daily.
- The Highest Level, and Choker lines are riding perfectly every day, the lines are dialed right in nicely. The Highest Level is rounded out at the bottom by a massive re-entry platform with an Up-Rail to Wallride. The Choker line finishes with an awesome Quarter Pipe that is Zaugged daily.

On Whistler
- The Bobcat line (right side of the park) has been filled out with an A-frame rail combo, a couple more jumps, and tweaks to the other jibs.
- The Chipmunk line is fully built out as well, with a couple new jumps, and changes to the jib lines Park Events
- The next King of the Rail comp is going to be March 21st. This is event is the last KOR of the season, and may even be moved to the base of Whistler (next to the GLC) this time. So make sure you register
- The following day (March 22nd), will be the Park Rider Series Slopestyle, on Whistler Mountain. The course will be on Whistler's Bobcat line (right side of park). All levels of riders and skiers are welcome so come on up, and ride in this fun event

See you all up here!
- James Sayers









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Published On: 3/13/2009
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Ski or Snowboard Rentals – Whistler


Renting skis used to be a dreaded experience, long line ups for poorly maintained out of date equipment provided by ski bums who didn’t care. Changes have swept across this industry with new companies competing in every resort worldwide.

With airlines charging extra for ski baggage, the inconvenience of carrying heavy equipment and an increased environmental awareness the number of skiers renting equipment has risen.

If you look at ski technology and ski branding a two year old ski can often look outdated, therefore before you leave home do a quick calculation of “how many days a year do you ski?” multiplied by the cost of renting against the cost of new skis. The average cost of renting top end gear is around $50 CDN for two days. If you average 10 days per year that works out at $250 per year. New skis with bindings range from $500 to $1100.


Factor in the cost of tuning, inconvenience, baggage fees and your environmental consciences and renting comes out the winner.


My family decided to test this theory with a visit to Whistler in January, we looked online and booked with a company called Affinity Sports. (www.affinityrentals.com)

After breezing through the airport and traveling the sea to sky highway we checked into our hotel around 9pm. Surprisingly the rental shop was still open so despite our jet lag we headed in to pick up our gear. The staff greeted us on the way in the door and our reservation was ready. We tried on the boots and with skis hanging on every wall I picked out a new Pair of Volkl AC50. The binding was adjusted and the staff answered all our tourist questions while helping us feel welcome in Whistler. The kids tried snowboarding had to choose from a selection kids gear.


On the third day the weather moved in so we took a rest day, I dropped the skis back at the store and was surprised to learn I would be credited back the days I didn’t use. I then took advantage of the best reason to rent, trying different equipment. The trend in skis is to have more specialized equipment to suit the conditions so I changed for a K2 Coomba, a powder ski. Each time I dropped into see the staff at Affinity they accommodated my every request without hesitation. The equipment was tuned, it was the latest model and the service was excellent.


Two weeks later back at my desk I thought about the old rent vs. buy argument. I will be renting skis, snowboards and maybe even snow blades every time I go. The image of ski rentals is changing and being driven by companies like Affinity, I hope to go back to Whistler for the Olympics and will be renting everytime.



Published On: 1/19/2009
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We're stoked to have Etienne Gilbert as one of our newest Pro coaches. Etienne brings to Core Camps a ton of experience as he's Camp of Champion's head coach in the summers. Etienne moved from Quebec to Whistler in 1998 and has since risen to become one of Canada's top Pros. He's had sick video parts throughout the last decade and more recently with Sandbox and Sugar Shack. Snowboard Canada also just did a 10 page story/interview  about Etienne in their 2009 Buyer's guide issue. Welcome to the team.
Other new pro coaches for this year: Chris Dufficy and Chris Wimbles.

Core Snowboard Camps is the ultimate winter snowboard freestyle, free-ride and snowboard instructor training camp in Canada.
www.coresnowboardcamps.com



Published On: 1/18/2009
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Through life you live and you learn. Whether its with your job, hoddy, or personal life. Something recently though has been bothering me and I can't let it go. 

I dated a wonderful girl for about 7 years. We cut to our different directions the 3rd quarter of 2007, and talked almost daily up until Thanksgiving 2008, when contact has been pretty much zero. I still consider her a friend, but it is tough for me to know what she's doing.  I do want to best for her, but I've realized that it's better for me to leave it all behind and pretty much "forget" about her and all the good time's we've had. I hate to do this, but it has to be done so I can move on with my life. It gets tough though, especially when her brother and dad are some of my best friends.

Another thing though that bothers me is what I've missed out on. Me and the ex broke up for about 6 months in 2005. During that time I dated and towards the end of the year started to fall for another woman(we'll call her M). My ex doesn't know this, but we were on our way to a fairly serious relationship. M was phenominal, thats all that needs to be said. At the very end of 2005, me and my new date ran across my ex. Well, long story short, my ex came back and wanted to get together. I had a tough decision, and made it to familiar territory. I lost contact with M, and the last I heard, she was in Africa doing some sort of mission work. I sit here now wondering what it would've been like if the decision would've went the other way. I do know, I probably wouldn't have moved to Durango and had all those good times, but I wouldn't have been hurt twice by the same woman. I wonder quite a bit, if the last couple years was a waste of time. If there is such thing as a parellel universe, I'm jealous of the one in that universe from that moment. He's got something special, and I'm sure he's a lot happier.

Moral of the story, take care of you and make decisions for yourself (especially if your single). When you get feelings involved, your judgement becomes clouded and you may not make the best choices.



Published On: 12/5/2008
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My Blog: 1st
By: the_bing


I've never been snowboarding before. That is a lie, i've been once, for a few hours, on Mt. Buller, Australia, on crappy snow, on crappy hire gear, but it's something that's been on my 'list'. I've moved to North Vancouver for a year so wanna get up as much as possible. I bought everything and I got a season pass to Seymour and really looking forward to it. I'll let ya know how I go...
 
Oh, and I'm always looking for people to hit up the slopes with so if u want to then hit me up. I want to hit the other 2 local mountains and of course Whistler if time permits.
 
Cheers.


Published On: 10/27/2008
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Lake Tahoe, Ca: The guys at Smokin Snowboards have been working hard this summer getting all the new boards done and ready to be shredded this coming winter along with moving into a new, larger factory. Making it easier to make Tahoe's finest snowboard, Smokin Jay Quintin has moved the factory to a location twice as big as the previous. With enough room to grow and develop new tech and Smokin innovations, our new factory is going to facilitate the needs of our company in the coming
years.

If you haven't ridden one of our boards you are definitely missing out. Whether charging KT at Squaw or riding your local park line, we have the best shred sticks for you. From our Eco-Friendly Mike Basich Pro-Model to our twin shovel nose M.I.P. with Magne-Traction, Smokin Snowboards takes rider feedback directly off the mountain and puts it directly under your feet. Our flawless 100% aspen and professional craftsmanship has been proven in the 12 years Smokin Jay has been making boards and these are our best yet. As well as making one of the best boards you've ever ridden, this season we will be testing our Smokin “Brototypes” on the local hills of Lake Tahoe, experimenting with different camber systems, edge designs, and other top secret innovations to further increase our board quality.

Get to your local snowboard shop today and ask for Smokin Snowboards or check em out online at smokinsnowboards.com Smokin Snowboards are Professionally Handmade in Lake Tahoe by Snowboarders who understand quality and performance... !!!

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Published On: 10/5/2008
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dude, it’s been a rockstar few weeks in minnesnowta. the state fair just rolled through, the republicans had their little convention, and rage against the machine played. yeah, rage against the machine.


i usually tell people that minneapolis and saint paul are like big cities nobody has moved into, yet. they look like big cities, but traffic isn’t that bad (i’m looking at you, bay bridge), and it’s mostly just half-rich white kids getting bored and causing trouble. that safe feeling fully eroded after seeing what the police had done to our cities.


unkown

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since last saturday, 422 people have been arrested in association with the RNC, with like 280 of them happening on monday. some of those rowdy rousers were the anarchist type, and you know how dumb breeds dumb. a mini riot broke out on monday, and that set the tone for the rest of the week.


the rage concert was ok. i wish i could say it was great, but the acoustics sucked. not their fault, but at $72 a ticket, i want my f*cking acoustics. rage played a lot from the first album, a few less from evil empire, and even less from battle of la. i was ok with that. single encore, then a plea from the band to “leave peacefully, but not passively.” zach encouraged everyone to show discipline, to show the police that we can get down in peace while still saying “f*ck you, i won’t do whatchu tell me.” yeah, it’s ironic, but get over it. it’s still possible.


the papers said we were greeted outside the concert by about 50 riot police. unless they meant “per sidewalk,” that number was a bit low. whatever. point is, unless you’re insanely drunk (i wasn’t), there’s no way you can walk past that many armed and armored police and feel like sneezing won’t get you your sheat beat down.


it took about a half hour before any half-assed protest broke out. the loudest kids didn’t like being told they couldn’t sit in the middle of the street (me: let evolution do its thing). the rest of us just didn’t like the idea of being told you can’t stand on this sidewalk by police in riot gear (and now gas masks). the police stopped us about half way down the block.


unkown

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after some fat guy yelling through a loudspeaker about as clear as they do at the airport, the police blockade broke down. someone in the group said “walk that way” and everyone did. and we kept walking, probably about a few blocks, in the road, mostly because it was cleared. as soon as the block wasn’t cleared of traffic, these retired american gladiator cops on schwinns started riding people down, shoving them to the sidewalk, and almost getting a couple of the crowd to push back on them. dude, i know there are good cops, but some of the cops out that night had that look like “say what again mother f*cker.”


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somewhere between the schwinns and the cops on super horses, 3 little piggies came riding up on one of those atv golf carts (didn’t see any segways) with that short stubby looking thing that usually shoots tear gas. after we heard the pop pop, we looked for the area with the least amount of cops, ran, and gtfo. police said it wasn’t tear gas, but, they were the ones wearing the gas masks.


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hey man, there’s usually not shi*t to talk about in minnesota.


read more about the rage show post-party or the fun around the


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matt albiniak is a sellout that traded days in tahoe for doing interwebs stuff for a route 29, a small candy company in minneapolis, mn. (http://www.route29.com)


www.porterstahoe.com




Published On: 9/5/2008
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Mammoth Mountain Unbound Terrain Parks Undergo Big Improvements in Preparation for 2008/09 Winter Season

Mammoth Mountain, CA – Although it is Mid-August and there are no signs of snow on the ground, the Unbound Park Crew is as busy as ever preparing for the upcoming season.  In keeping with its vision of creating the best terrain parks in the world, Mammoth Mountain has made $750,000 in capital investments including improved grading and expansion of current terrain, new “Adventure Zones,” enhanced snowmaking and two brand-new Piston Bully 400 Park Bully Snowcats.

Leading off the improvements for the upcoming season is the massive amount of grading and shaping being done to enhance the existing terrain in Unbound Main.  25,000 cubic yards of dirt are being moved which doubles the useable area of Thunder Road, the site of Lower Unbound Main Park.  With the addition of this new terrain, the Unbound Park Crew will have more freedom than ever to create the best jump and jib setups possible. 

Another big change for the upcoming season is the enhanced snowmaking capabilities for the Superpipe and Unbound Main Terrain Park.  Instead of simply adding new water and air pipes into the ground, Mammoth Mountain decided to recycle underutilized snowmaking systems that were already in place to create a more efficient layout.  “We thought it was more environmentally friendly to rearrange what we already had with better placement and layout, rather than putting more metal in the ground,” said Oren Tanzer, Director of Youth Action Sports Marketing at Mammoth Mountain.  “This will allow us to have the best selection of features and an earlier opening of Mammoth’s world-famous Superpipe.”

Mammoth Mountain prides itself on offering terrain parks for every level of rider to allow for smooth progression from beginners to seasoned professionals.  With this in mind, Mammoth Mountain is excited to announce the addition of four new “Adventure Zones” to complement their Family Fun Parks.  These new runs will be fun tracks built into the trees featuring a variety of berms, rollers and small bumps.  “For years, the Ski and Snowboard School and Race Team kids have been exploring these ‘secret spots.’ We just decided to share these well kept secrets with all our guests in the hope that everyone will have more fun,” said Finlay Torrence, Director of Eagle Lodge Ski and Snowboard School at Mammoth Mountain.  “Adventure Zones” will be located near Disco Park, Forest Trail Park, Wonderland Park and Eagle Express Lift. 

Rounding out the list of major improvements for the Unbound Terrain Parks will be the addition of multiple new jibs for the 2008/09 season, some of which are signature features for Vans and Dragons to complement the popular 2007/08 Quiksilver signature jib – a large skate-inspired pyramid made of 100% steel and coated in clear Lexan plastic.  Mammoth Mountain is consistently ranked as having some of the best terrain parks in the world by multiple industry publications and these new additions reinforce the commitment Mammoth Mountain puts into its world-famous Unbound Terrain Parks year after year.

The Mammoth Mountain Unbound Terrain Parks lead the industry in innovation and quality with seven parks, three pipes, 65+ jibs and 50+ jumps on 90 acres of California’s favorite mountain resort. Using state-of-the-art equipment to provide a progressive environment for all levels, from beginners to a team of 13 professional athletes, the Unbound earns consistent ratings among the top parks of the world. For more information on the Unbound and Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, visit mammothunbound.wordpress.com or call 800.MAMMOTH.



Published On: 9/1/2008
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So ive been without internet for sometime now, sorry for anyone who thought i just ignored you or something. I moved to the middle of f*ing no where and have no way to get interenet because my house payment takes all my money. but anyways yea, so im gettin married in 8 days, and having a baby january 25th well thats my due date anyways. im tryng to make new friends up in tremonton and brigham but its not working well. anyone live up there and wanna be my fwend??? lol

Published On: 8/8/2008
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We thought June was so much fun, we decided to let you go back in time... FOR FREE!  

So what happened?
  
Well, we made a boo boo.  We moved some of the info from our current database to see how it talks with our new database for the new site.  In that process, the old database crashed (not surprising) and nuked itself.  So we rolled it back to the latest backup which was suppose to only be an hour of lost data at 3am, however for whatever reason, it's all the way back to June.  No matter how many backups we try to restore (yesterday, saturday's, or even friday's) it seems to always go back to June.

What can we do?

nothing... sad thing is this is just another big crappy, lame, didn't see it coming situation.  For some reason the tables are not backing up as they should and they are a month behind. Ideas?

So... sorry.  Wish we could make it all better...  but we don't have a band aid for this one.

The delay in this blog is also due to the fact that we couldn't post blogs again until now...


Published On: 7/23/2008
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My Blog: Long Read
By: JaiBarks


  Read if you want... I was high on Rockstar when I typed this out. So that is why none of it will most likely make sense.

you know what...

 

I've been thinking... I know surprising eh ? haha shut up.

What would life have been like if everything was different ? I don't mean like absolutely everything or else I would be named Wolf, and most likely wouldn't be in the situation I am in currently, I'd already be out on the streets saving people. but here is what I mean, what if certain things in my life were strategically different. Well there is the absolutely obvious, school choices, what I did at school, or the lack thereof. But what I am specifically talking about was when I was living @ 88 Culver Crescent in London.

 

So there was 2 of the 5 that moved in earlier than the rest. You would think that we would be like having dinner together, lunch whatever. But for some messed up reason, we really never did? Which looking back at it now could be because the other half wanted it her way or no way. But that is how she was brought up so there was nothing I really could do to combat that. So that could be why we were two completely different functions items. But now that I am looking back, it really bothers me. It honestly does. Like I could not imagine how much better it could have been if everything could have just been more pleasant in the first couple weeks leading up to signing the lease and then the following weeks of move in days/time. All of the emotional convo's that we did have just me and her either sitting in my room and just chatting for hours, or sitting in her room on the bed drunk off our asses, or me sitting on the stairs and just shooting the shi*t, why could those experiences happen, but we could not just get together and have a meal ? I mean, me and her were the original 2 that would chill in Pre-Health, and then in Residence. But back to the whole meal thing. How many things would have changed if only we got together for meals. Guidelines might have been easier to be set (None were set in reality). When dinner would roll around, I would eat upstairs, she would downstairs. but why ? duh, the confrontations. It was just weird, flipping back and forth. How many confrontations never would have happened if only we ate together once and a while. Only in the final months were we "sorta" closer. We gathered around Pussycat Dolls: The Search for the Next Doll. Yes I watched it and called them all whores. and yes I cheered for Chelsea to win, or the other girl to win, oh well. I know I am not normal, shut it!

I know I also have been talking in circles, but it happens once and a while... and I mean the Rockstar obviously is helping this haha. Let's see. then there was the girl. What was I thinking... and since I am posting this on Deviantart, Fb, Snowboard colonies, along with a couple other places, sooner or later she will prolly read this, if she admits it or not. Was it a right choice, at that point I thought it was because she looked like one of the girls on my brothers baseball team that I, in the simplest terms, adored. This girl was just stunning in my young eyes, and since I knew I never had a chance with this girl since I was so young, I averted my eyes to this new girl, that as I saw it looked like her. and I mean being with her for as long as I did, I don't even see the likeness at all anymore. But I did at the time. oh well. I wouldn't call my life ruined from her, but my life didn't get much easier when she was around. I did enjoy her company, because I never had someone who I could go to that wasn't my mom or brother. Sorry to myself, but it's the truth. I have never had someone whom I could just talk to and let everything go, I could laugh with, talk to for hours about nothing, just sit and say nothing, or play video games and actually not have to teach the person how to play, they would just try and really wasn't that bad. Not better than me, a durr, I couldn't have that now could I ? yeah I didn't think so either haha. So yeah, I never have had someone like that that wasn't blood, and I was at that time, glad I did have it. Wow Rockstar works eh ? haha. I am shaking... Although it could be from the coldness of the room. Back to her. So shi*t was alright, I felt like the protector, and I really liked this new power. and Since she will prolly find this sooner or later (I hope) here goes the big secrets. The friend I said that I argued with about you, and I said that I lost touch with because I didn't like what she was saying about her, never happened. There was no arguement between my good friends back in good ol' St.C. If there was, no girl comes before my friends, sorry, My friends come first, especially the person I was saying I lost touch with. I mean yeah, we do butt heads once and a while when I think she needs to go to College or know that some of her choices are stupid, but shi*t happens, and we have (hopefully) gotten past that past instances. back to the girl. There was a conversation with my one roommate about her though, while I was still in res. I talked to the one guy, and he told me to get out because obviously I wasn't happy. a year later... I didn't listen to him obviously. But time happens. Next, I never wanted you to meet my friends, why people would most likely ask... because in my eyes at least at that time, I thought you were good enough for me, but you would never be good enough for my friends. I know it doesn't make any sense that you would be good enough for me, but not them. I was just I guess embarassed to show them that I had in fact found something out in the "REAL WORLD" that I enjoyed. In the back of my head the entire time I knew I should have been with someone more "fit" or "athletic" maybe a volleyball player or something like that... you people reading this understand right ? The typical girl. Someone who I could take home and be like see, she is my girl, not.... bring someone home and be see, here she is, not here is MY GIRL. just here SHE IS... Obviously this is pig headed of me and I realize this. But for some reason still beyond me, I wanted some sort of companionship. I guess I got that from her ? Don't know about her since she doesn't write like I do, like this for example. Which is really another reason why we don't talk now. She can't talk, it is like a permanent tongue cut... make sense ? not trying to make that a jab at you if you are still reading this. You just could never communicate with me in your own "heart" and "feelings". they were always someone else's feelings or thoughts.

Which brings me to paragraph 3. EVERYONE ELSE'S FEELINGS. wow my hands are cold. keep going. no more Rockstar tonight. It was never you and I, and I think that was one of the problems we had. Since you couldn't say what you thought, at least as much when you would, I would shut you down and make everything you said look wrong. My linguistics did that and I apologize, not like it helped. Back to the topic. Since you couldn't say what you thought and felt, you went to surrounding passers-by, who divulged into lives and lurked for too long for me to be comfortable. Those passers-by were your voice. Wow. I never should have taken that long of a break. My brain isn't in the same mindset anymore. Ok Let’s try this again… Rob Zombie will help me now. So as I was saying, your passers-by were your voice and as I saw it, they were you. I was not with you, I was with them and had to deal with them because you refused to live your life, you let others do it for you, and thus up to that point that is exactly what got you by. With that said. Where is she going now ? Well since she is back in the home city, she has been manipulated from what I thought I had created to keep the head on straight and possibly create an own person. I was wrong, they have sucked the life out of you. You are finished for life now till you finally break away and find out that these people are telling you what to do, what to think. When you were in your first yrs of college, you couldn’t bugger off to other provinces, but what a freakin’ surprise, the second you are forced back to your home city, now you are being spoon-fed bullshat! That’s right BULL-SHAT ! You have been shown that as long as you dwell under the home city, the world is yours and you have no problems or worries. “Just don’t ever leave or we will disown you and leave you for dead on the side of the street” “We don’t care what you think, because you are useless to the world, and will amount to nothing… why is that you ask? Well you aren’t allowed to ask questions, so shut the fack up and get back into your overcrowded room and sit till we tuck you in for bed.”

Wow that felt good to get out FINALLY.  So you can think what you want from that, but isn’t it funny that you “lost all feelings for me as soon as you slinked back to the home city ?” yeah, that’s what I thought too. The brainwashing and hand-feeding has commenced. I guarantee with everything that is holy, that if you were in any other city but the current one, you would still not be “over me”. And why is that, because you don’t know who you are, so you rely on other people to tell you what to say and what to think. Isn’t it surprising that when you were living in the house, and had temporarily lost contact with the reliers, that you were HAPPY, you were enjoying life, you had an honest fun time. I don’t think you can deny that. There were obvious rough patches, but those were because of situations at the house, or your reliers trying to wedge back into the situation and I got frustrated when you were letting them (Calling them every single night and filling them in on daily occurances)… What are you going to do when they finally pass ? who are you going to call then ? one of your other reliers and spill to them. Where will you live ? Since they like the younger half more than you, Younger will have the house. And we all know younger won’t want you hanging around.
You know that you need to get away. I know you do. But unfortunately you will never be able to see this until you stop listening to background noises and see what YOU REALLY WANT. Not what everyone else has told you you want to hear and do.

 

So this was fun. I got a lot out. No clue why this all came up, but it did. Kinda for some reason just pissed me off. Damn people randomly getting on my nerves for no reason haha.

Peace all. This is a good 2000 words to read… I will try and drowned out the harassers in my head and the paranoia that now exhausts my life. I will stick to my 100% exams and 93% essays. See I can write and I know how to write. Go me!
 


Published On: 3/7/2008
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2008.01.30 (Wed)

ナイトシュート〜! Night shooting!!

昨日は久しぶりにナイトシュートをやってきました!
雪が降って山もリセットされているはずなので期待大です。
しかしこの日はかなり冷え込んでいて、朝はマイナス17℃。。。
凍傷だけが怖いな〜〜(苦笑)

2008.01.30 (Wed)

Yesterday we went night shooting!
The snow covered the mountain again so it will be really nice.
BUT, the temperature was minus 17 degrees in the morning...I don’t want to get frostbite...


夜の撮影は準備が大変。
照明、発電機など機材も多くなるので準備する時間もかかります。

タダシのバックパックもすごい事になってるな〜。
空とか飛べそうな感じです。
みんなで試行錯誤しながら機材を運びます。(無理矢理?)

For our night shooting, we need to prepare many equipment, such as lights or generators and it takes more time than daytime shooting.

Look at Tadashi’s back pack! He must be able to fly now.
We've finally figured out how to carry all the equipment!



 左からコニ、アンソニー、マルさん。
コニのモービルには発電機。カスタムモービルみたい。(笑)
マルさんは月にでも行けそうですね。

from left, Koni, Anthony, Dice-K
The generator was on Koni’s sled so it looked like a custom-fabricated sled.
Dice-K could launch out into the universe.



 暗くなってからセッション開始!
ここは地形がいりくんでいて難しいランディング。
明るいところから急に暗くなるのでライダーを苦しめてました。

それでもいい写真、映像を残すため納得いくまで飛び続けついにストンプ!
男です。

After dark, the session began!
The terrain was kind of complicated and difficult for landing, because sometimes they had to jump into the dark.

Despite the complications, the riders kept trying to get great footage until they got it!
That’s heartfilms riders for ya!



 また違うポイントへ移動。
コニもドライパウダーを巻きあげていきます。

家を出たのが14時。帰ったのが24時。
あっという間に時間が過ぎていました。
思ったよりロングデイでしたね。。。(^^;)

また今日も行ってきまーす!

We moved to another spot.
Koni shot sprays of powder.

The time we left our house was 2pm and we got home at midnight...time goes by so fast.
It was a long day for sure.

We will go again TODAY too!


2008.01.30 (Wed)

トラブル… Trouble...

ナイトシュート2日目!
今日もかなり寒かった〜。。。
でもそのおかげで雪はかなりかるいです。


昨日より撮影ポイントをしぼって、スムースに準備は進んで行きます。
木の間から飛び出してくるというカッコいいロケーション。
タダシ、コニと順番に飛び出していきます。

しかし、タダシの2度目のジャンプでハプニング…!
突然照明が消え、あたりは真っ暗に。
発電機のエンジンがかからなくなってしまい撮影中断。。。

みんなで原因を探し、あれこれ試すもののまったく動く気配なし…
3~40分格闘したけど動かず…



撮影終了です。。。
無念。。。

2008.01.30 (Wed)

The second day of night shooting!
It was really cold - same as yesterday...though it made the snow light.

We concentrated on shooting today.
There was a cool location that the riders can jump out between the trees.
Tadashi first, then Koni.

But something happened when Tadashi dropped in for his second try...!
Suddenly, it blacked out! The lights went down and the generator’s engine had stopped.
We had to stop shooting...






 発電機は終わっちゃったけど、最後の最後で暗闇セッション!
真っ暗の中、ヘッドライトの明かりだけでスプレーを上げるコニ。
雪はかなりディープ。
We couldn’t figure out what was the problem.
30-40min later we still couldn't start the engine...

Then we gave up shooting...
Too bad...





 タダシも思い切りあげてます。
全然見えてないそうです。(笑)

Although the generator was dead, we had a darkness session at the end!
They only relied on our sled’s head lights.
Koni shot some spray. The snow was a bit deep.




いい雪にタダシも嬉しそう。
いい顔してますね〜!

ナイトシュートはまた今度リベンジ!


ケイジでした〜

Tadashi also shot some spray, but he hardly could see anything.

The nice snow made Tadashi happy.
Do you see him happy?

We will go for a night shoot again soon!

KEIJI


2008.02.06 (Wed)

ライン。 LINE

どもです!ケイジです。
タダシと一緒にBurtonのフレディー、ジェフ&ジェス(フォトグラファー)、アンソニー(フィルマー)とペンバートンへ撮影しにいってきました。

2008.02.06 (Wed)

Hello, it’s Keiji.
I went to Pemberton with Fredi (Burton rider), Jeff&Jess (photographers), Anthony(filmer) and Tadashi.





週末だったので駐車場はたくさんのスノーモービラーで混み混みです。
中にはライフルを持った人もいました。狩人かな??

It was a weekend so there were so many people with their sleds including someone with rifles. Were they hunters?





どのラインを攻めます?

Which line would you like to ride?




夕方は撮影なしでライディング。
タダシと2人で何本も滑ってかなり楽しかったな〜!
雪も最高。気持ちよすぎです。

自分の滑りたいラインを下から見て覚えていても、いざ山の上に立つと全然違うんですよね。やっぱりそう簡単に思い通りになんていかないんだよなぁ。(^^;)
その場その場の地形であそびながら滑ってくるタダシのすごさがあらためて分かります。
ライン系ってむずかしいけど、その分面白さがあるんですね。
In the afternoon, there was no shooting just some riding.
I really had fun keeping up with Tadashi!
Snow was great too. I loved it!

It’s different to see the line at the top or from the bottom. It’s not that easy to ride the line that I marked...



フレディーとタダシ。
フレディーはかなりフレンドリーなナイスガイ。
明日からこのメンバーでロードトリップ。
目指すはレベルストーク。雪も降ってるし楽しみです!

Tadashi can decide his line while he is riding and even though his lines are so sick, he is having fun!
I feel that riding lines are kind of difficult but the same time it’s very interesting.

Fredi and Tadashi
Fredi is a very friendly and nice guy.

We will go on a road trip with these members.
The goal is Revelstoke. It’s snowing there now and it must be nice!


2008.02.08 (Fri)

只今レベルストークです。 At Revelstoke

2008.02.08 (Fri)
Hello, it’s Keiji,
After the eight hours of driving we made it to Revelstoke yesterday!

Today we went snowmobiling but unexpectedly the snow on the mountain was so deep...
It was waist-deep snow so when you land the board stops and keeps sinking like a submarine boat and it was really hard to hike-up too.

It was so foggy that we weren’t able to go up, but at the lower side the snow was heavy...
Difficult situations for searching for spots to ride and shoot.

Ummmmmm... but there must be some good spots!!
We'll keep trying tomorrow too!




どもです!ケイジです。
きのう8時間のドライブの末、無事にレベルストークに到着しました!

今日はモービルに行ってきたんですが、山の上の方は想像以上に雪が深い…
腰上くらいまであったかな?
ランディングしても止まっちゃうんです。ボードはまるで潜水艦みたいに沈みっぱなしで。ハイクもめっちゃ大変です。。

視界が悪いから上には行けないし、山の下の方は雪が重い、、、
なかなかポイント探し大変です…


う〜むむむ、、、きっと何かあるはず!
明日もみんなでがんばって探してきます。

2008.02.09 (Sat)

ROAD TRIP DAY3

2008.02.09 (Sat)
It’s the weekend. There are many snowmobilers here.
Someone loaded the sleds like this...
I think tomorrow will be more crowded. There were many funky old men.




週末です。いっぱいスノーモービラー達が集まってきてます。
中にはこんな感じで積んできてる人も。
明日はもっと集まってきそうです。イケイケなおじさん達がいっぱい。




今日行ったポイントはしばらく誰も入ってないポイント。
ノートラック。
昨日行ったとこより雪もいいかも?


写真の湖はLake Revelstoke。

There were no trucks at today’s spot, no one must have been there for a long time.
The snow was better than yesterday’s spot.

This is a photo of Lake Revelstoke.



 奥へ行くにつれてどんどんどんどん雪が深くなっていきます。
Uターンも楽じゃないんです。
みんなスタック。(苦笑)

いつもスタックしないタダシも深すぎる雪に苦戦してました。
かなり掘ったな〜今日は。。。
筋トレですよ。グッドエクササイズ?!

The snow get deeper and deeper as we went into the backcountry.
Even turning around was quite a job.
Everyone got stuck.

Tadashi rarely gets stuck but today he was having a hard time.
We dug too much today.
It was like muscle training.




雪まみれのタダシとマイキー。

Tadashi and Mikey.




帰りに汚れた車を洗車☆
ピッカピカになると気持ちいいですねー!

でっかいトラックも洗車しにきてます。
タダシのトラックがやたらちっちゃく見えますね。



明日も多分同じポイントに行ってきまーす!
今日以上に何かできればいいな〜。レッツトライ!


ケイジでした。

After we got down from the mountain we washed our trucks.
It’s nice to see a clean car!

A huge truck was next to Tadashi’s.
It’s so huge that Tadashi’s truck looked small.

Tomorrow we may go to the same point.
We’ll try something newer than today.

Keiji,

2008.02.10 (Sun)

大雪ダー。 Heavy Snow!

カナダ西側に大雪みたいです。
ハイウェイも雪崩でクローズしてるとかなんとか…
無事に帰れるのかな??(笑)


今日はドライブドライブ。
でもいいポイントを発見して撮影してきました!
グッドワンです。

明日も行ってきます!


2008.02.10 (Sun)

There’s some very heavy snow falling in West Canada.
Some highways are closed down due to avalanches, I heard.
Can we get home??



 写真はバートンのフォトグラファー、ジェフ・カーティスがやっているフォトブログです。
様々な土地へトリップしている時の写真がアップされています。
いろんな写真があって面白いですよ。
まだこのフォトブログは始めたばかりみたいだけど、これからが楽しみですね!
ちぇっくでぃすあうと!


Jeff Curtes: THIS IS MY BED
www.jeffcurtesphoto.blogspot.com

Today we drove and drove and found some good spots and had some good shooting.
We’ll keep doing that tomorrow too!

This is a photo blog of Jeff Curtes, the Burton photographer, “THIS IS MY BED”.
on the blog you can see the photos he took when he was on his shooting trips.
It’s fun to see that kind of photos on his blog.
He has just started it and it’s going to be sick!
You’d better check this out!

Jeff Curtes: THIS IS MY BED
www.jeffcurtesphoto.blogspot.com


Published On: 2/11/2008
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So I moved back to Menomonie for a little while, till like February.
I'm on my way to quit smoking, it's going pretty well. I've started working out. forest(my best friend/roommate) and I go to the gym.
shi*t, I've even cut waaaaaay down on the drinking.... it was getting pretty bad. now, I really only drink when I play beer pong(which is like every friday night or sometimes on saturdays)... I'm still undefeated, so that's good.
I still like my herbs, but even that has been cut way down.

since the ex and I split... shi*t kinda hit the fan for a while and I was mess, but I've got my life back on track. got a new girl... I think she's the tops.

I've got two bands going right now.
the one is like a surf rock/ mellow type acoustic project, and then I've got a metal band called Goat Scroat Gauntlet.

I've started writing stories and comics again as well.


yeah, I'm sure you can tell that I'm trying to stay busy.... if I don't.... I collapse and get into a bunch of shi*t that only brings me down. I am Mr. Selfdestruct, and I'm trying to change that. :) I'm doing pretty good with it too.


oh yeah.. my dad comes out to WI from CA next week, and my girlfriend comes up from Madison at the same time... so I'm super excited for that. Dad and I are going snowboarding at Welch, and I'm going to bring Casie(it's her first time), and my roommate/best friend(forest).

god damn, I can't wait.




TONIGHT, I'm going snowboarding around UW-Stout... there's some pretty rad hand rails, and some gaps and drops and shi*t. I've got an idea for some footy... but it requires a P.O.S. car that I can smash up and land on, and some lights, and somebody with a video camera....


f*ck, I need to find a filmer/photographer... my crew's filmer is lazy, and never wants t go out anymore. damn him


p.s. Bullet for my Vallentine = great music in the morning to get me going. woo!



Published On: 1/7/2008
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My Blog: Ahahahaha
By: Twirch


I've moved past the adolescent stage of my life...I've moved onto playing peekaboo...with my dog...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I'm so lame....


Published On: 1/4/2008
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hi. i'm ben. 
i'm a recent addition to collingwood, having moved here with my fiancée from barrie this fall. always down for meeting good new people, but definitely too old for the "cooler than thou" bullshi*t and egos that shoulda been put down years prior.

i love to shred, bike, skate, play video games, chill out and play outdoors. i'm a musician, and it sure wouldn't hurt to meet some new people here to jam with. lemme know if you happen to be interested. i'm a graphic designer too, and would also be happy to help you out if you have a project in mind.

drop me a note.

peace.


Published On: 1/1/2008
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I've reached a point in my life where im askin for advice more than i ever have before and frankly more than i ever thought i would..I've never been the type to give up on nething i know i can get and im worried that soon im goin to have to admit that for the first time that it means nething i failed and im not sure what im supposed to do about it or what i can do even..I'm in love with a great girl and i dont know where to even begin how to describe how she makes me feel and it doesnt matter how im feeling at that moment if i even see her name in my contacts on my cell phone i smile and i melt when i hear her voice...i know we are in love and im lookin forward to spending the rest of my life with her by my side..i just moved further away from my parents than ive ever lived i lost my dad when i was 9 yrs old and i just lived with my mom untill like a month ago i had a place that was mine but i moved back in when she had trouble with the bills but i always helped pay the bills and she treated me like i was an equal but yet still her baby boy so i could do anything i wanted and she didnt care the basement was all mine i paid for half of everything...i might have to admit i couldnt make it mentally and move back close to home and thats the last thing i want to do cuz that means i lose the one thing that means the most to me in my life rite now and that is Tara..these next few days will either be the best or worst days of my life......if u read this and you have nething at all you would like to say feel free to speak your opinion i want advice as to what you yourself would do if you were in my shoes....


Published On: 12/15/2007
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Moved to Myspace

http://www.myspace.com/earthblood

add me, we could be friends!  but leave me a message telling me who you are so i don't think you are spam!
Love you


Published On: 12/10/2007
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i haven't been here in forever, and i apologize
i reaallyyy need to upload new pix, perhaps new vids.. and shi*t.. lol, but things on this site are being rather uncooperative, so i shall asap...
 
since my last login, i've moved to Winnipeg, and uhh.. thats bout it, i'm checkin out Stony Mountain Ski area tomorrow, for the first time, i'm an ALIEN to this place, lol
 
have yourself a good day now,
 
-Sten
 
 


Published On: 11/30/2007
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Hey to everyone and anyone who actually reads this stuff!
Thought i better find the time to update my snowboard.com/colonies.com account, seem to use this site less and less after most of my kiwi friends are bebo.com addicts, and i mean ADDICTS! lol.
 
New Zealand Winter was a short one this season, which was gutting! got a heap of riding in tho ... 1 week up at coronet peak in queenstown, which was amazing, learnt a heap riding up there. First jump of the season I unfortunetly landed on my face, slitting my lip/biting my lip, and grazing my chin - got some worried looks round the cafe at lunch. Went on a few school trips lending a hand with the younger OE classes so they cud pass there snowboarding certificates! which was mint, gave a few of the younger boys a run for there money...god that felt good. And seeing as i had a pass for cardrona - in wanaka, me and a few buddies got up the mt every friday/sunday if we cud, which rocked! we were going atleast once a week, as well as school and work - tryna keep the petrol fund going! shame the season didnt get a kick start like last year, but still an amazing new zealand boarding season got a heap of photos which i will post later!
 
So ...What else have i been up to...
Moved to Dunedin, new zealand (south island), 2hours away from my home town, and 3 hours away from my home mt *tear*. Moved with my parents, leaving my older bro back home. Studying down here next year maybe...still tossing up going over seas and catching up with the gang! but we'll see. Been drinking way 2 much, partying way 2 much, im surprised i dont have a booze gutt yet...(touch wood) I enjoy the old wine bong - getting messy IS the key! Give me a message, and dont be shy! miss all the snowboard.com regs! Sorry ive been slack on this, i promise ill get my arse into gear!
 
Love the one an only
Kiwi - Mel :)
p.s. Mite see u on the YOUR moutain ur this season...fingures crossed - any biatches keen? wheres everyone at this season?


Published On: 11/3/2007
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whats happening my name is travis newton i am from kelona B.C. and i moved to ontario about two and a half years ago.
Its cool down here, but snowboarding isnt as good you just have to get creative. i like snow, snowboarding, bunnys, cheese cake, ice tea, paper clips, having snow down the back, and 360's. i dont like posers(people who say they can do things they cant),roaches burning my fingers, bitchy girls, wiping out on rails, and emo. o and Travis Rice rules


Published On: 10/31/2007
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