2013 Captain's Log (AKA Rider's Log)

Pretty sweet picture on Saturday @ Keystone from those awesome EpicMix guys!

^ To answer your question, yes, that's what the bright green jacket Epic Mix guys do... take photos that are available for purchase through your Epic Mix account.

3-4 footers.  hard to say exactly how much snow is up there but it's around a couple feet or so at the top, and tapers down as you get to the bottom.

yes!  it's great.  and she loves snow like crazy.  as pooped as she was by the time we got to the top, she ripped a nice pow line down.

^^OMG SO MUCH POWDER!! insanely jealous.

it's not really that much snow, haha.  thank you though, glad to get some winter stoke rolling.

Dude i envy the shit out of you!! nice little tumble by the way. always a crowd pleaser!

^ nice

day 6.  split up eaglecrest again.  great weather, but the sun is behind the mountains most of the time so it's dim on the way up as seen in the picture.  snow was decent but nothing that great.  kind of a firmer dry powder with a couple areas toward the bottom that were crunchy, but we had some good turns and were all stoked on it.  felt a lot more on point today and it was the highbacks like i thought... not enough forward lean from union backs on spark bases! hah

no they definitely are compatible.. they fit almost like they were made to go together.  the female end of the bolt that attaches the highback is square-ish and slightly bigger than the highback hole, but it's so close that when you force it through once, you're golden, and that's about it.  the problem i had is that i can't get enough lean with the force backs when they're on spark bases, and i felt super loose riding them the other day.  today solved it.  the spark highback has a big range of lean that allows me to get it how i want it.

yeah, Jeff is the guy we deal with and he's always been cool.

^she-it

that area has pretty good coverage, but right below that, you'd see why we're not open.  i'd say we need another 2-3 feet of snowfall to be ready.

I absolutely cannot wait to get on my hovercraft.  But it's going to be a while.  Let's see, I'm on day 5.  The first two were pre-season days hiking sugarbowl, I think I put those on here and they were kind of fun.  Day three was at mammoth with thrive, which was a low-vis, wet heavy pow day, and I apologize in advance if I thrashed any of the demo decks because it was still kind of sharky at mammoth.  (They are cool boards, and I talked them up so much my partner had me buy one for his kid, so probably worth it in the end).  Yesterday my wife and I had a nice morning riding resort groomers at mt. rose, it was nice when the sun came out.  Surprisingly good, and we spent some time at the bar too so I guess I can't complain. 

I went to Lake Tahoe during Thanksgiving and was able to practice a few tricks in the terrain park. The weather was really nice and warm and there was a lot of snow :)

Currently up at snowshoe, early season so only a few runs open..Nothing else open in the region ,so there's lots of peeps here :(          2  small park areas  are open and a night session though
Cold front came through last night so its in the teens and they are making a ton of snow .
Light snow  currently falling  .Will try to get some pics later

Sounds like tahoe is going to start getting some more snow this week (fingers crossed).  In the meantime, Sunday was a nice day to rip resort groomers and party in the parking lot.  Here we are on Day 6, getting after the latter

Loving all the pics, almost feels as if I'm there with my room being so cold hahah.

Originally posted by spenser grey?  the weather?  that's the good shit.  none of that silly sunny day nonsense.

^^^ hey Spenser's friend Bri:  Not to go all aggro skiier on you but . . . DON'T BOOT THE shtooking SKIN TRACK!!!  For real tho!

most of my second run today, just the top half of the mountain.

gopro 2.  the new contours are getting really good though, but i don't always wear a helmet and the goggle strap mount is super jiggly.  i like the gopro head strap.