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

Mammoth Mountain got snow!  After days of storms the skies broke to let in some sunlight to take a few pictures.  It was very cold and windy but our friend Eric took his gloves off to hit the shutter button a few times.  Now it is snowing again.

Thanks to Greg Bokenkamp!

These are the kind of things we need to be seeing more often!  Lots of snow and low temps across the board for the next couple of days in these resorts on the west!  Time to go ride some more pow… see ya!

POWDOWN!

Jackson Hole, Wyoming Forecast:

 Mammoth, California Forecast:

Mt Baker, Washington Forecast:

Salt Lake City, Utah

Take a look and watch Travis Rice explain a little bit about the upcoming Quicksliver Natural Selection contest held at Jackson Hole Resort in Wyoming. A huge line of some heavy hitter riding all natural feature this is looking to be a insane deal.
To read the press release and more info on the Natural Selection go HERE

Snowboarding in Chile - The Revolution Crew will be snowboarding in Chile until the end of the month.  Every place We go, We leave Tracks for Real.  The snow in Chile is INSANE. This pic is from La Parva that is one of the best resorts in Chile.

 If you want some stickers like this or even our clothes just visit Shop-revolution.com; buy something and make  your donation for the Injured Riders Foundation.  ROCK AND ROLL

Epic Conditions is a new feature program from the weather channel. This new series features the places the draw the top athletes of Snowboarding, Surfing, Mountain Biking, Sailing, and how the places they ride are formed. The show premiers on March 4th and features Steamboat Springs Colorado. It explains the epic snow conditions, and how the storms that drop the large amounts of snow are formed. Tune in to EPIC CONDITIONS this March from The Weather Channel.

There is no doubt that the resort that resides on both Nevada and California is anything less than Heavenly. The resort has a large number of awesome obstacles to ride and usually has them set up perfect. This christmas break/new years we decided to do a check up on the snowboard park on this South Lake Tahoe resort.

Here are some pictures taken Dec. 29th 2006 of the large snowboard park Heavenly usually has set up. It may be the lack of snow, it may be that their are a large number of beginner riders in the area but Heavenly currently is not taking advantage of their snowboard park. Hopefully once they recieve a little more snow, or the christmas break is over they will get their park in full effect.

Yesterday Bill Cooley and I went to Peek and Peak.  Peekn is a resort in Western New York that we rode when we were just groms.  They opened last week and we decided it would be dope to go check it out.  You know, water the roots a little.  Billy Bacon is the new media director over there and he is also bringing in some new school flavor into their snowboard park.  Its sure to be sick. Billy Bacon has some ill ideas and he now has the resource to bring them to life.  He used to be a pro rider for Burton and lived in Jackson Hole WY for some golden years.  So he knows whats up.  Well check out his forum, and the peek forum at Peekn.com and see whats happening on the West side of New York snowboard style.

Heres a shot Bacon took yesterday on the hippo rail.  Johnny Centi t shirt weather, old school shifty. 

Mt Hood 
Yep. It snowed overnight as this picture from  Vista Express Camera can attest. The forecast says we’ll get more today, tonight and tomorrow - up to 6 inches or more!Get ready - the season is not that far away! 

  Whistler 

  Whistler, BC,  – Winter provided Whistler with a sneak peek of what’s to come as the resort received the first snowfall of the season last night. Over 15 centimetres was measured this morning at the Roundhouse Lodge on Whistler Mountain (1,850 metres/6,069 feet), and as snow covers the mountains thoughts are ever increasingly turning to the upcoming 2006-2007 ski and snowboard season. 

“Fall is the season of anticipation for skiers and riders everywhere,” says Stuart Rempel, Whistler Blackcomb’s senior vice president of marketing and sales. “While everyone’s stomping around their houses breaking in new boots and making sure their new jackets are indeed waterproof, Whistler Blackcomb is busy rolling out fantastic early season value for our guests, and preparing the mountain for the season ahead. Crews are working hard to complete the Symphony Express chairlift which will open on Whistler this November.”

Full Stroy