spring break 2010, whooaaa!!!

There was a lot of ideas thrown around this year about spring break options, most included some mexican destination town, lots of coronas and tequila, college girls and mtv, but in the end we settled on the vibrant town of valdez. The crew was made up of Brendan, Ian, Logan, Matt, Travis, Becky, Rachele and myself, Josh. In true valdez fashion, the weather was relentless. It pulled us in with one nice day our first day there and left us with a nice day on our way back home, just to insure we would be back. The five days in between it snowed, non stop.

Day 1, novelty airtime infront of glacier tunnel

Slednecker pow

Another novelty iceberg obstacle

Urban style air to flat in the backcountry. Thats the new hotness, steep powdery landings are overrated.

Hells Yeah

It was late, it started to snow really hard and the bad girls club finale was almost on, so we called it a night a little early.

The next few days we returned to the same treed zone shredding a bunch of mini lines and dropping cliffs. Part of the crew was stoked, the other part not so much. Logan, Matt and Travis took off a few days early. Maybe it was because we had lured them in under false pretenses, promising sunny days and bikini clad woman.

Indy

One second after snapping this shot, Ian slowly fell back for no apparent reason to onlookers. Shoulder dislocation 92.

The harbor

B$. This is the zone we spent all of our time on when it was snowing.

It was deep

Ian blasting through the trees

Day 5 brought us good enough light to see some of the mountains around us. We lapped the easement for a few hours, took a few road runs, then poached the cat skiing zone. So sick.

The enabler

Chang throwing some snow around

Day 6 was spent exploring Valdez Glacier.

Mandatory penguin slide

B$ was ollieing off every iceberg in sight.

Coolest cave ever

Magestic Valdez

Our last day was spent lapping this zone. We each got about 7000 vertical in the 4 hours before we had to leave. So sick. Definately the best turns of the trip.

We rolled through Anchorage and straight into Girdwood on saturday so we could hit this "secret" zone on sunday.

We exited the "secret" zone here, also happens to be the house I spent some of my childhood in.