Words: Joe Carter
Photos: Joe Carter, Andrew Miller

Spring time in Mammoth’s main park is in full swing right now. With many of the resorts around the country closed for the season, as always Mammoth is still going strong. There are still two halfpipes, plenty of jumps, and fun rails in the Unbound park. Right next to main is the Forest Trail park with some smaller jumps and fun mini jibs.
The photos you will see here are all in Main with a pretty big crew of us just cruising around with Andrew Miller, Scott Blum, Mac Spedale, Kyle Lopiccilo, Greg Bretz, Cornell Agee, Shayne Pospisil, Nick Russell, Cody Rosenthal, Lonnie Kauk, and SNOWREV owner Johnny Centi. There will be plenty more from Mammoth coming soon since this weekend is the West Coast Invitational, Superpark and also be on the looking for the Revolution after hours session that went down at the beginning of the week. Stayed tuned for it all… Mammoth is not done by a long shot yet with plenty of snow and the new spring park high up on the mountain coming very soon. Here is a quick update from Main Park:

- Main parking looking prime

- Lonnie will lap out anybody all day in this park. Bottom booter cab 720

- Lonnie and SNOWERV owner Johnny Centi

- Peter Benchtler Mammoth local and radical dude lofts a backside japan

- Kyle Lopicciolo sends one over Scott Blum. These guys love to tag team each other

- Still tons of snow up here in the Eastern Sierra. Chair two parking lot

- Nick Russell for president

- We all shred here at the Revolution. Photographer Andrew Miller taking some laps at the end of the day

- Kyle Lopiccolo double over head off the hip

- Cornell Agee taipan or Canadian bacon?

- Greg Bretz was on a rampage all day

- Kyle double tail grab three hundred and sixty degree rotation

- Mac Spedale flying high as a free man

- Shayne Pospisil right before he tweaked his ankle.. hope that heals up fast man!

- This was shot around 3:30. Lonnie was the only snowboarder still hitting the jump. Lonnie probably spinned every single rotation every way from 10am to 330. He is the man.

- Cody Rosenthal has one of the best methods in our book.

- No better way to end the night than with a Belliago de Norte session.

Stay tuned for more Mammoth updates and the Revolution After Hours session that went down on this jump that night.

After a long 9hr drive from Tahoe we got in to SLC around 330am went to bed for a few hours and headed off bright and early up Brighton to ride. If you have never been here you truly are blowing it. After a long weekend in Tahoe, and Big Bear before that. We were all itching to ride some Powder. This for me could be the most fun place I’ve ever been snowboarding. Brighton on a powder day has endless terrain to shred all day and pretty much always find good snow. The park is fun too. Today we just brought out the little digi-cam instead of some people having to lug aound heavy bags so we could ride all day long, and hike all over the place. Our crew was Andrew Miller, Mark Dangler, myself (Joe Carter), and some friends along for the ride. In this one you might not be seeing the most wild snowboarding, but just a bunch of friends cruising an amazing resort and the rest of our first day back in Utah. Enjoy.

Top of Millicent lift traverse. 

Cryptkeeper coming out of a high speed turn 

Joseph getting in the white room 

 Joseph. That was fun, you guy’s wanna smoke?

 Heading up Millicent lift. Brighton has amazing terrain

 Cryptkeeper, front slash

 Too bad we weren’t up there. View from the top at some dudes about to get some amazing turns.

Not bad views of Grizzly Gulch 

Mark Dangler, no camera today. Just good powder. 

 Hiking out for some fresh

 Andrew shredding , making good turns after popping out of a chute to the left

 Andrew, end of run front slash

 Mellow hike out. Always worth it.

 Look how much sick terrain is here.

 Molca Salsa

 Waiting anxiously for some of the best Mexican food ever.

Good day. Back in Salt Lake after a fun day. 

Crew Chronicles | 2008 Vans Cup at Tahoe

After a long week of riding everyday hard in Big Bear let’s make an 8-hour trip up to North Lake Tahoe.  For this weekend we will be attending the 2008 Vans Cup held at Northstar. After a quick stop in Mammoth, Andrew Miller and I got there Friday night just in time to see the whole rail jam contest.  Then of course finding where the free beer was and we helped polish off the keg. This was the first night for me meeting Mark Dangler, the snowrev.com filmer and and long time photographer guru George Crossland. Two rad guys that make me pumped that I now get to work with, myself being a new member to the snowrev crew.  Our weekend for the most part started out pretty mellow. We stayed in a sick hotel right on the beach of Lake Tahoe so we could have an early morning for the stacked slopestyle contest. That night we went pretty big. The Snowboarder magazine party held at the Biltmore was like any other after party with plenty of dudes, not very many chicks, and plenty of booze. Trevor Andrew held it down for the music performance at the bar. After a while I ended up losing Andrew and Mark.  Luckily I had some friends that let me crash at their pad, thanks Garrity. So that night was pretty fun, giving me a solid hangover for Sundays halfpipe contest. Then a long drive back to Utah to ride some pow the next day. Check the photos and you’ll see how our little trip went.

- Andrew getting the birds eye view shot of our room.

Viva La Revolution 

Mark Editing Away

Cryptkeeper hard at work. Or watching porn. 

Mark and Joe about to get shitfaced

Bunch of dudes and a few girls during the Trouble performance

Evan Lefebvre, Matt Sickels, ad Nick Visconte 

Dingo and Sticky just guzzlin

Zac Marben and Tahoe’s Robbie Sell 

Danny Garrity, thanks for letting me crash at your house.

Max Dubs

Late night for Chris Grenier 

Zac and Casey Neefus… drunk. 

Dirty Joel, he was pretty boozed up also 

Hey Goldy 

Danbo and Dingo getting hit up by the paparazzi all day 

Yeah Mason

Not a bad view from out room

Let’s get out of here.

Heading down to Reno

Mark and Joe getting some beers and pizza. Not a bad end to a fun weekend.

To see the full report on the VANS CUP 2008 click below:

Vans Cup Rail Jam

Vans Cup Slopestyle

Vans Cup Superpipe

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