Fischer Freeride Team Silverton, CO Trip
This past March I had the amazing opportunity to visit Silverton, Colorado and film with the boys from Fischer Skis. We were expecting some really warm conditons with a freeze-thaw each morining but were pleasantly suprised to find some soft stuff, all thanks to our amazing guide Alex Hunt. We did have some technical difficulties, what would a ski trip be without something going wrong?
All and all, lots of fun and a huge learning experience for me. Got to shoot with some high end Canon HDSLRs, met the town wolf-dog, traveled the ice boot pack at 13,000ft and got crispified by the sun but it was incredible none-the-less. Thanks to Matt Berkowitz over at Fischer for getting me involved and all of the atheletes for being so patient with us. Have a look at what I came up with….
Winter Ain’t Over Yet
It’s been a long time since I posted, lots of action in March ending with a fun trip to Silverton Colorado with the Fischer Skis Freeride team. Awesome group of guys and a very special town, hoping to have a post up by mid-week with a video.
It looks like a small storm will bring snow above 2000ft to the White Mountains and Northern Green Mountain spine through Wednesday. Not sure what the conditions look like above 2k but I’m guessing very, very thin.
We saw a fun little swell this week, I got a chance to try out some new gear and work out the kinks. The wave in the foreground is one of my favorite waves on earth, it’s where I learned to surf and it’ll almost always be my first spot check. Everyone needed a few waves to keep from going insane, it’s been a while since we saw anything surfable.
On another note, I missed an epic sunset tonight. I’ve been working on the Silverton edit night and day, I saw the colors from my window around 7:15 and raced down to the beach to find a last minute vantage point, sure enough I blew it — 20 minutes too late. It may have been one of the most vibrant sunsets I’ve ever witnessed. Here’s a shot I took in the last few moments of light.
Nala
Beautiful weekend here on the Seacoast, today felt like summer. Nala and I soaked up some sun in the back yard.
Bolton Valley | The Storm of the Year – Part Two
Winter has finally shown up, atleast for the time being. It looks like the White Mountains and Southern Greens will see some storm totals potentially reaching a foot and a half by Friday morning.
2″ on the ground here on the Seacoast at 11:30pm Wed. We’re all still recovering from the powder fiesta on Sunday, have a look.
UPDATE 11am Thursday: 4-6″ near the ocean, reports of 8-10″ on top of Stratham Hill, Magic Mountain has 12″+ and Bolton Valley around 3-4″.
Stay tuned for Part 3, video editing is underway! Here’s few screen shots of what’s to come.
Bolton Valley | The Storm of the Year
You could stop at any given moment during the day on Sunday and hear nothing but hoots and screams of joy. After two full days of wind hold on their summit lifts, Sunday brought light winds under bluebird skies. The perfect day, 30″ of light blower powder, sun and good company. We will continue to sort through photos and video and release them throughout the week. Here is a start.
Thanks to Bolton Patrol for being awesome, also Brett and Jenny Walker, Jason Plouffe, Luke Ingram, Ryan Flynn, Nick Wilkins and Drew for being our models for the weekend.
Nick Wilkins – Bolton Valley Park Manager getting it done. Photo: Lucas Van Oss
Brett Walker slaying pillows inbounds – two days after the storm.
Luke Ingram – unfortunately this one has soft focus because I’m incompetent, crushing it.
Ryan Denning – Photo: Lucas Van Oss
Nick Wilkins – Nosebutter 360 – how’s that feature?
Lucas is 6’3, just for a reference point. This photo is awesome…crisp and focused all the way into his face.
That’s it for now, stay tuned!
Spring Showcase
It’s been one hell of a boring winter here in the Northeast, no waves and no snow. Keeping our eye on the possibility of a big dump, forecasted to be the largest storm of the season so far.
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In the downtime I’ve had lately, I decided to put together a showcase reel of my most recent work. A lot of the surfing content is from the fall but I’ve got some Bolton mixed in as well as some Dunfee shenanigans, some Danny Miller Memorial Bonfire video and some Christine’s Crossing stuff. Please watch in HD — feel free to like, share, comment, etc…Thanks for checking us out!
Keeping our fingers crossed for this weekend’s storm, we really need it.
VT Backcountry | 2-6-12
Another amazing day in the BC, 5-8″ of new snow on top of the ice layer. The skin was pretty tough, especially on the way out. Coverage was good up high but we really need a couple heavy hitting storms to cover up the tops of the undergrowth. Keeping my fingers crossed, do yourself a favor….stop skiing 93 and head up to Bolton Valley!
Below: Andrew Hale, hours outside of the resort boundary.
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