Uludag to Kartalkaya

Here are some photos from our trip so far. We arrived in Istanbul, spent a few days in Uludag and then a few hours in Kartalkaya... More words to follow.

Istanbul is a seemingly endless city. We spent quite a few hours exploring the nooks and crannies of a pretty popular area called Taksim. The density and age of the city is so different than other places, its hard to explain.

Our team is constantly striving for the perfect hand-plant. A lot of them went down on this snowbank. It was the first thing we shredded in Turkey.
We got pretty busy our first night in Uludag: Ramtime baggin the first drop of the trip.

This guy had never seen this kind of weapon so i demonstrated its power for him.

Home... for a little bit.

Doin that snowboardin thing.

BRT went huge on this deck drop/gap over stairset. The hotel manager proceded to yell a whole bunch of Turkish words out the window at us. I will translate what he said since im so good at Turkish now: ``You doomslashlove boys are amazing! Im so glad you are snowboarding on my deck! I love your website and will have a bronze statue of this jump permanently placed on the deck along with a plaque with your guys names on it! ``

Ramharter J showin the locals whos boss.

So this is what it feels like to be winners!

All obstacles were ripped.

If you go to turkey and can find this sticker, take a pic of you next to it and I will buy you 7 icecream cones!

Air. Its where I like to hang out.

Late night slashin.

We snaked a T-bar and caught sunset from the top of Uludag.

Reppin an rollin.

I tested the high speed stability of the minibus. Im not sure how many miles we covered but it was a roadtrip to say the least.

Warp speed.

Ram layin it down at Kartalkaya.

Ram always kills.

catching up

Currently I, B$, am sitting (well, more like half sitting, half laying) in bed, in California. Im staying in Carlsbad with my friend Jules for a few days to catch up on work. There's lots to be done, including: blog update, snowboard, beach, hot tube, snowboard, sleep in, eat, eat again, and wander around aimlessly. I am going to take advantage of my body's failure to adapt to the time change (Maine to Cali: 3 hour difference), and launch full swing into a blog update. Not only am I a little bored sitting here at 5:30 in the morning, but I also want to have the satisfaction of checking "blog update" off of my list of things to do. With that, Im going to back up a little to when Ram and I were in Maine, where we also did lots of work.

We started the trip out with a little backyard snowboard time. Here Ram is seen in the air, grabbing his board while maneuvering over a hip-jump he built.

How many people can say that they have jumped the bog road?? My guess is not many.

My mom is trying her hand at making homemade wine. Im trying my hand at jumping over her grape vine fence and stone wall. Both taste excellent.

Getting Eclipse ready for a trail ride. She also likes to jump things.

While wandering around in the woods we came across a pretty neat tree and some wolves. Luckily I have a talent for climbing trees, otherwise I fear I would not be writing this blog update.

Taking a speed run down the backyard luge.

Ramharter family hanging with the birds.

Prelude to Turkey:

I'm leaving for traveling tonight. So in preparation, Ian and I were just researching on the interweb to find some local shreds in Turkey that could show us some new moves... This is what we found.



I fucking hate Metallica

Sled Side

Late last week I headed out with my sledmobile to Turnagain. There was a heavy fog hanging around Anchorage but once I was deeper into Turnagain Arm the clouds dissapeared.

I hit the parking lot around 11:30 and ran into Sergey of the Binge Crew. We geared up, hopped on our rockets and went up and over. Two feet of untracked champagne powder greeted us when we reached the ridge.

Sergey's first tracks

Taking a breather in the white room

Sergey

Brett and Rory showed up and joined the ghost ridin

Looking towards Alyeska and all the suckas waiting in line to ride flat light...

spotted

During my daily overview of flickr, I spotted a few pics of matt, logan and garrett. Pretty sweet. Have a looksy at the rest here.

backyard boarding- never grow up

Every year it is inevitable that i will get bored hanging out inside watching friends reruns and attempt to make some kind of snowboard obstacle in my backyard. This winter i am in a new place, which means a chance for a new setup. My yard has about 8 to 10 feet of vertical, a big step up from my flat yard last year. At first, I figured I would just build a little bump to do grabs off of, but once I got building, things started to come together. In the end, I ended up with a triple line, a straight on gap, and both a frontside and backside hip. So sick.

Stalefish on the frontside hip

We have been a little slow to start filming this year, but I think its on now. This is a from a night and a day up in the woods. We found a few fun little obstacles to shred. Enjoy.


If that didnt get you stoked, this will, but be careful.