Session # 1 is on at HCSC – we’ve been on snow for a few days now and it’s been sooo fun! Below are a few snaps, on hill action, off hill action, and some soccer action…
Fischer's out with a mean old method this summer...
Coach Jake Levine, air to fakie in the dwindling light... skate till 9!
Pat Moore and some campers got to it on the soccer field yesterday... Pat plays dirty, cause he's a jerk... (his team beat mine...)
Till next time -
A
Today was my first day up at Hood this summer season and it was awesome! There is sooo much snow up there – check this one out!
Pretty Epic views of the summit from Palmer Glacier to be had...
Not to add another bookmark to any ones collections… but If you want to peep the photos I’ll be shooting for HCSC this summer you can check out there flickr page, where I’ll be uploading daily at the following URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hcsc/
The first round of campers showed up today, eager as all heck to get skatin’ and boardin’ – tomorrow will be our first day on hill, and the olllddd stoke meter is flying off the handle! Look out! Hot dang! Holy Mackers!
Signature sessioner, New Hampshire Loc', and all around good dude, Chas Guldemond welcomes the session one campers to Govy - heck yeah!
More to come -
A
Stayed at my friend Dan’s house in Portland a couple nights ago – his roomate had this dog that was shedding everywhere. I took a creepy picture of said dog, this is said picture:
Sputnik = said dog.
Staff’s back at High Cascade – such a great crew!
Alex got a new motorcycle!
Ross got a new mustache!
More to come, stay posted -
A
Gettin' ready to Poach MRG, on assignment from TG - epic day!
Just caught wind this week that a good friend of mine, Toby Grubb cruised out from his position as a huge part of the design dept. at Burton… He’s been killing it over there for years, and I’m pumped to see what he does next (you should be too!) -
Right after I met Toby he brought me out on one of my first big photo missions… I was to capture the poach of Mad River Glen in VT (A resort that remains exclusive to skiers) – I met up with a crew at 80 Industrial in Burlington at 5AM – We all jumped on three coach buses and cruised to Mad River. After a long hike, a massive group of snowboarders dressed up in white painting suits with face-masks was ready to descend on Mad River on the day of their dedication of the new and improved single chair (who doesn’t want to ride the lift with their buddies? MRG’s got it backwards for sure!). We had an amazing, and hard earned ride down to the base area where we passed out donuts to the skiers who greeted us with some smiles, some frowns, and some offers to cut our snowboards in half to make skis so we could ride with them for the rest of the day (no one took that one up…). It was a day for the books, and it was so much fun to be shooting for Toby – he pushed my photos around the ranks and really helped me out by having me shoot that day -THANKS SO MUCH TOBY!
Looks like the crew at Burton had a big send off for the dude, check it on blotto’s site here!
And to see some real swell design work check out www.tobygrubb.com
Thanks again Toby – see ya soon!
-A
Ramp crew at High Cascade Snowboard Camp, Mt. Hood - Oregon...
I took the last remaining part of my drive up to Mt. Hood in Oregon a few days ago. Leaving the Tahoe sun wasn’t sweet, knowing full well that Hood had been getting rain at the base for the past month… but the sun will come out in Oregon, and Hood’s the spot to be in the summer, so I’m fully pumped to be here! The drive up the 395/5 was sweet – some amazing forests and burn zones, wild to see different levels of regrowth in the trees.
By the end of the drive I had dropped a cool 4,776 miles on the ol’ Subaru – kinda heavy, but that was too much fun to pass up! So glad to see everyone on the way out!
Anyway I’m up at Hood now, haven’t moved into my house for the summer so I still kind of feel like I’m on a road trip – I’ll post up some pics of whatever dwelling I’m assigned once I get into it… But for now I have some photos of High Cascade’s Ramp crew who have been working ‘rain or shine’ (there hasn’t been any shine though…) for the last month and a half to build up the new bowls.
These guys work soooo hard to get these ramps going – Heck yeah!
Cutting down some coping for a good fit...
Dropping in one of the final pieces on the outside of the big bowl...
Welding up from underneath...
Out with the old, in with the new – these ramps look like soooo much fun!
Come on up…
-A