photo: Paul "Bagels" Stanley
11.18.11 I turned 21 and we got over a foot of pow for opening day at Crystal Mountain, WA. Josh Vester, Paul Stanley, & Garrett Read made it out for some epic turns to start off the new winter.
11.19.11 Back to back! Snoqualmie opens with a few feet of dry blower powder the next day! And it felt like from here on the winter just took off, one raging storm after the next.
12.28.11 and then it rained.. A LOT. So much that it shut us down. There were rivers flowing down the center of the terrain park. And so we spent our day off riding in the rain sliding around the hill on our stomachs. Ponchos & Carhart rain coats slide really good on the snow.
01.17.12 Can't believe my eyes, I don't think I've ever seen this much snow in my life.
01.17.12 9' in a few days, and the Snoqualmie Pass was closed in both directions.
01.17.12 11:00AM and Alpental is just now opening, time to celebrate! Due to the pass closures there was hardly enough people there to make a mark, making it near impossible to stay afloat. From the Armstrong Express to the bottom of chair 2 the mountain was just absolutely buried in a waist to chest deep blanket of the driest snow we received all season. From the bottom of chair 2 to the top of Alpental we were up to our collarbone's in pow, well all except a few who were experiencing double overhead and face-shots the whole time (Four runs that is). After only a few laps I was so frozen over with ice and snow I had to take the shuttle home to change clothing for round 2.
01.18.12 These 15ft tall icicles hung from the shop, after a massive freezing storm came. On top of all of that snow... making avalanche danger incredibly high.
01.26.12 The Jeep broke down, and Paul gets stranded for 6 days. After hours of digging cars out of snow and rebuilding the park, everyones was beat.
02.03.12 Tube City build is starting to take shape!
02.03.12 After 2 days of 14 hour shifts we made a skatepark of features including 16 of our tube jib features. Down flat down tube , A-Frame tube, 3 Propane tanks, Closeout tube, Down flat left tube, and much more.
02.04.12 Event day, everyone is way stoked! Thankfully the storms held up for a solid week so we could keep this skatepark open to the public.
02.16.12 Unfortunately I took a slam on the day before we left on our trip, and ended up pretty damn hurt. But finally a vacation! Headed down south to Big Bear, CA to reconnect with our friends Kory Young, Cory Vitalo, Jessi Blackwell, Erik Leon, Barry Witicher & Robert Toaste!
02.16.12 Good Times at Bear! The snow skatepark of the world, this place is endless. My first run down I could hardly hit anything I was so overwhelmed, features scattered across every end of a run, and runs branching off into multiple sections.
Trip Recap Shot by Cameron Weeg (The Melting Pot)
02.17.12 The Redbull Third Shift build was a long, tiring week long build where many worked 15-20 hour shifts. and then after a week or so of clear days it started nuking again. So much so that the jump event was cancelled, the fences were non existent, and all the features in the park were buried again.
02.18.12 This crew was on point this season.
02.18.12 The men who came and worked on the lighting system did one hell of a job. But then the lights came on, even though the colored LED's were rad, we all just had laugh. Ofcourse redbull uses colored lights (that were constantly changing color). Haha so much for the industrial theme they we're going for.
02.18.12 Oh and did I mention there was a snow-bar, with view outside of the window of one of the buildings, as well as 3 snow cave bar lounges in the snow wall of the jump landing. (The jump event was to take place behind these buildings. from the behind the left building, over the bar and to the landing behind building 3. and yes there was a chain link fence over the top of the bar)
02.19.12 Over it. The whole crew was just beat after trying to keep the fences up around the park. Stupid fences.
02.26.12 Chest deep again and digging out features becomes more like paleontology.
"Hey I found one over here!"
02.26.12 So much that our street light was buried!!! I came home to 3 park rebuilds in a week and a half, holy moly.
02.29.12 A week after the event and the snow bar is filled in above the bottom of the windows!
03.03.12 Northwest approved snowfall, comin' by the busload & then some! Literally!
03.13.12 Roof Avalanche!
03.15.12 Dig, dig, dig. Sums up how we spent our time in February & March just to keep this place open.
03.21.12 3 Stories of snow preventing you from seeing our entire house from the street.
03.21.12 and somehow this this managed to stay up and get buried time and time again. Tits deep!
03.22.12 Great Scott traverse into the Alpental Backcountry
03.22.12 Taking it all in before dropping into The Great Scott Bowl.
03.22.12 Climb to 261/Pineapple Pass
03.23.12 Almost at the top of Pineapple Pass, overlooking the tooth (left), & The Great Scott Bowl
03.23.12 Booyaaaa!!
03.23.12 261, down the backside. An incredible run with wide open terrain between tall trees
03.25.12 Then the weather finally took a turn for a while, and things got crazy in the park. Jumps and snow features as far as the eye can see, and a skatepark zone that included snow bowls, berms, spines, and bmx jumps.
04.09.12 Now thats a lot of snow! No big deal, just hanging out in a streetlight heat well?
11.24.12 Cleaning through the garage I discovered I had more boards layin' around than I thought. Time to get creative. Broken boards = Art Canvas
