The search for good snow has taken us all over northeastern turkey. Here are some images from the adventure. I promise there will be some words to go with these pictures eventually... until then: Eat, shred, drive, shred, sleep, (shred in dreams), repeat.

Even in Turkey they know that we Alaskans like to party!

Sumela Monastary. These monks had a good view.

I wanted to surf this right point so bad... I didnt see a surfboard the whole time I was in Turkey.

Ramy made a turn like this on our ride down a face in Palandoken... it didnt end well. Ive got it on tape if you wanna see it.A LOT of our mornings looked like this. I kinda miss sleeping in my boardbag.

We saw a small suspension bridge so we decided to stop for a break from driving. Coincidentally on the other side of the road Ram spotted some caves in a ribbon of sediment about half way up a plateau. These caves were really old, and they were dug out of this soft rock by humanswho knows how long ago. they went way back into the side of the plateau with seperate rooms and were all interconnected. There were even upper and lower levels. This was a surprise find and really cool.

Ahhh Sarikamish. Our second opportunity at fresh powder was not wasted.

BRT has a nice backside!

This kid played tug-of-war with my snowboard then wanted me to pay him for it! Brendan promptly knocked him out. Dont f*ck with doom/love!

I bet a king looked out of these same windows. That made me feel cool.

Im always gonna wonder what was behind door 34.

There is no excuse for not having mustache showdown 2.0 . I am sorry we dissappointed everyone.

We just loved the allys in Ispır.

Pretty isnt it?

Ram says: ''I love you man!'' Ian says: ''Oh thanks dude-bro!''

Constant navigatıon.

OK. So this pic shows how our trip almost came to a sudden and horrific end! The viz, as you can see is about one pole distance. (25 meters) We were coming up a pass and it started getting really slick. After sliding backwards and stomping the breaks for a really stylish minibus backside 180, I maneuvered to the next straight stretch of road so we could don our chains and show the hill who was boss. As I popped the trunk to pull out the chains Ramy scampered over to the side of the road to take a pee. Not more than 10 seconds after I say to ramy; ''Do you hear something?'' I turn around to find a giant plow truck sliding out of controll right towards us. Im frozen and Ramy dives into the ditch still peeing as the 10 ton truck blows by, just a foot from our minibus and Rams stained shorts.

Mosque stalefish.

As we were rejected by the Kachkar we were diverted to a tiny mountain village were we taught a few middle aged muslim fellows how to snowboard. It was actually really spiritual for me to drop in on a jump while the priest wailed in arabic over the loud speakers, and the call for prayer echoed over the snowy village.

Turkey is a bit behind in their on-mountain fashion. The silly jester hats, dinosaur tails, multi colored fleece tassles and hats with bright colored hair coming out the top are all the rage.

Doom Love summit at Palandöken.

BRT made it look cool but I dont wanna talk about this stair jump thing.

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.