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Bibby in Switzerland

by link80
Feb 19th 2010 - 4 comments

Hey Readers,
Hope everyone is having a
good winter so far.  I just figured I would let you know how mine is
going at the moment...  Currently I am in Switzerland with level 1, the
crew includes Tanner Rainville, Wiley Miller, Jeff Cricco, Josh Berman
and myself.



 To be more specific we are staying in Switzerland but end
up skiing in France and Switzerland each day since you can cross that
border while skiing in the mountains here.  So far we have just been
skiing around looking at zones and snow quality.  We have got a pretty
big list of thing's to do and right now it is snowing out so it looks
like were going to have good snow when we take care of our list. 



The
mountains are really amazing here and well as how many skiers there
are.  One thing I noticed right away was how many people just seemed
excited to ski in general.  Many people have gear here that is well
over 7 years old but are just as stoked to ski as anyone.  It is kind
of refreshing to see, there is no attitude around here that I have
encountered.  Other than maybe not knowing how to speak french, that
would help me quite a bit.  I plan to take care of that this summer.
 Another thing that is different with on hill manners is the line-ups.
 There are no guide line ropes around to stop people from snaking each
other.  It was a holiday week this past week so it was a free for all
in the lift lines.  You can try to snake as hard as you can, no one
will say anything, because they are doing the same.  It all seems to
work out though.



We are here for about another week and a half then it is back to BC for me.  Happy shredding everyone!

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AK check-in

by link80
Jan 21st 2010 - 7 comments

Well to
say that this season has started off with great snow up here in Alaska
would be a complete and utter..... lie. With only one large storm,
which was immediately followed by mother nature being quite obviously
on menopause (temp has ranged from 50 to -10), we have been forced away
from pulling out the braaaaaps and hitting jumps amongst the chugach
peaks, and more towards hangin out and hitting stuff in and around
anchorage. Being on a crew made up of primarily snowboarders, I have
been finding myself getting pushed into hitting features that require
me to slide them parallel rather than perpendicular, and it's actually
pretty fun.



5050, 180 out, half cab off the dock (my beautiful new rockers were in the mail at this stage) JayLav photo


The
consequences are definitely much higher on stuff like this, but it
really excites me because it opens up so many more opportunities for
hitting new and different features. Here are a couple more shots with
some one ski antics:


5050 up a creeper ledge, with a very unforgiving fence that I got to know pretty well. JayLav photo




180, switch 5050, 180 out on a little creeper. JayLav photo
Then of
course one night whilst searching for spots, we came across this gem,
and I was super pumped on the shots we got out of it:


Handplant. Kris Swanson photo
Hopefully
next update there will be some beautiful Alaskan powpow to brag about,
but until then, have fun skiing because it’s the most wonderful thing
to do in the world.


P.S. big ups to my favorite photographers for all their time and effort, Jeremy Lavender (http://www.flickr.com/photos/boreasproductions) and Kris Swanson (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kswanson).

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Over The Top

by link80
Dec 8th 2009 - 4 comments

Moose Mansion: Over The Top Edit from Jonny Durst on Vimeo.


Check out this nice little edit from Shay Lee and the guys at Moose Mansion.
For more check out themoosemansion.blogspot.com