another day at the junkyard

another day was spent at the junkyard shoveling, creating and getting rad. three more shredable obstacles were created: a wall stall, a mini stepdown and a daredevil stepdown. ian did a years worth of shoveling to create a landing for his daredevil gap, but the finished product was well worth it.

ian popping a front 3 over the daredevil stepdown
sunset backside shifty
a little wall stall slowly transformed after all the snow was pushed up for the mega stepdown landing
ram rockin n rollin the wall stall
becks and i took a field trip down to alyeska a few days ago. we walked around while hozer and hozers crew did some snow shredding. here is what we saw
a tunnel with a becky in it
a lookout
an old log
telephone poles
turnagain arm

yesterday was muy bueno

yesterday was fun. we got our day started bright and early at the crisp hour of 11 am. once motivated and caffinated, becks and i ran over to the closest mountain of snow. in anchorage theres designated dump spots for all the excess snow, due to the fairly large volume of snow we recieve, the piles can get quite large. unfortunately these piles also contain all the junk thats picked up with the snow; trash and lots of gravel (it started to smell bad once the sun started thawing out the mountain of snow). we set up a pretty excellent mini shred course, straight shot into cone ollie, then left turn, right turn, banked left turn into the money booter.

the landing off the money booter shot us straight into the muddy lot. this played a role in our lack of speed later in the day at the triple jump.

becks clocking some airtime

as the session at the neighborhood snow mountain was coming to a close, we were greeted by ian, wally and clint. they had bright aspirations of snow sliding on a real mountain, we followed suit and headed up to flattop. we headed straight towards the junkyard, where we were greeted with a beautiful opportunity for a triple jump. 2 hours later it looked like this.

after spending some time dialing the speed, we got down.

meanwhile wally shoveled his own obstacle to play with.

and then he went sliding through on his snow sled

oh, how the junkyard has given us so much to smile about.

in the past few weeks, we have spent time on other notable shred obstacles. we found a stream to cross.

brendan almost got wet.

embarrassed and ego hurt, he made up for it by crossing the stream in a more advanced manner.

days later we returned to the downtown jump. ian and associates put on a show while me and becks created a little jump through the trees.

the day ended with a few attempts at bridge crossing. ian and devon tried crossing the bridge on the railing, everyone else just walked across. devon was looking as if he was going to get it until he popped off a little early and crumpled up against the back side of the creek.

that was the ender of the day. we will be back.

yesterday, becky, ian and i went into the outdoors to find us a shred obstacle. we ended up finding ourselves creating a jump near downtown. what started off as a little bump to mess around on, turned into a full size park jumper with silly amounts of pop. a full on session ensued into the early evening with ian and diego twirling through the air and becky and i getting our tweak on.

chango twisting backside
backside tweaker
becky backside shifting
diego showed up just in time to kill it before it got to late

i heart bikes!!

Aha

board riding

the boarding season is now in full swing. heres a few shred shots to feast your eyes on. enjoy

we were successful

the trip has long been concluded, but laziness has delayed any sort of update. so heres a few highlights about a month late.
•la libertad, el salvador- crowded surf town where josh got the ride of his life and ian had to battle a leashed monkey for his sunglasses
•our bumper mysteriously disappeared from our vehicle on the ride out of la libertad
•more karate kicks

•found a large beach where we were able to pull each other behind our car. totally awesome


•long hills=overheating=break time- southern el salv

•brendan continued to wow the locales with his quite cunning similarities to the great enrique

•headed to las flores to surf a popular point. Unfortunatly, there was no swell, all we were left with was a beautiful camp spot, great hospitality, great food, a little hassling from the local drunks and pretty colors in the sky. and some dogs peed on ian and tricks tent. that was funny.

•blew through honduras in a day, leaving only enough time for some cliff jumping with the locales into cow dung infested water and a stop at wendys

•brendan purchased an authentic robbers mask from a local at the honduras border
•at the nicaragua border they use typewriters. awesome.
•josh ran over a pig shortly after crossing into nicaragua
•stayed two nights in the vibrant town of leon
•multiple police were payed off for not having insurance, a fire hydrant and "triangles".
•got a most excellent day of surfing on a beach 15 minutes west on leon
•"why is that hot guy making out with that ugly chick" -brendan

•ian opted to stay back at the hostel and get his spray paint on. there was also a piece by the italian artist Blu in the hostel.

•searched the coast between leon and managua for surf- not much luck
•stayed a night in the very americanized managua (there was a TGIFridays)
•ran around a volcano south of managua.

•stayed in san juan del sur multiple nights. got lots of wierd vibs, a bandito sighting, a night of food poisoning and an overall good time.
•took a boat to a remote beach break and got smoked by a lot of waves and caught a few
•got some all time body boarding and a fun night session
•surfed playa maderas

•found a rope swing south of Dominical, Costa Rica. Diego managed to break it with the first swing. Luckily we were well prepared. Ian attached our rope to the tree and we were back in business
•josh won the style competition

•diego did backflips


•diego did more backflips

•after diego flipped this bridge, a local told us only crackhead swim in that water because thats were they dumped all the fish guts.
•more jungle exploration was done in quepos which included a crocodile sighting, a downpour of water droplets and hollering competition with some howler monkeys

•we were also lucky enough to see a merman

•the last day on the beach was spent in jaco. there was crowds of people, waves we werent well trained enough to surf, a killer sunset and a thief that liked stealing cameras from cars while people sleep in those cars, weak.

•more hills and more overheating

•the car was sold the day before the last two, ian and diego, left.


now we are all back in cold weather climates shredding our little hearts out. stay tuned for more epic adventures and radical snow pics from the winter in alaska.