Even though Mammoth opened up last weekend for shredding the warm weather has taken a pretty good amount of snow from the hill. However there is some snow still up there and Matty Mo has been hard at work making sure that wether the mountain is open or closed he can still get his fix. At a spot high on the hill he made some pretty sick log jibs and more stuff for some good times in the woods. Then of course the JLA park is always amazing. So here is a little taste of what’s going on in Mammoth.
- Matty Mo not scared at all of any hangups. Frontside boardslide with plenty of chances to catch an edge
- Cornell Agee tailpress
- Matty Mo with a buttery switch nosepress
- Greg Bokenkamp high speed frontside grind
- Frank Knabb just moved out to Mammoth from New York to blast big frontside airs at the park
- Garrett blasting a method out of the bowl
- Lots of training going down
- Frank, frontside 180 melon
- Greg is not afraid of the vert
- Frank, Greg, and Garrett getting into a threeway in the cradle
Usually this time of the year we are all just waiting to see a few flurries fall from the sky. Last week a freak storm rolled into Mammoth giving them a solid blanket of the snow on the mountain for them to open on Friday. The second earliest Mammoth Mountain has ever opened ever. Thursday night we piled in the RV from San Diego with Jack Mitrani, Nick Russell, Elliott Levitt, Tyler Flygar, and myself to get into Mammoth right in time to make it for last call at the bars. Then we headed up to a night of rest up at the Main Lodge parking lot so we could wake up nice and early for Friday for our first day of shredding this season. To make things even better on Friday Mammoth decided to celebrate the early snow mother nature put down with giving everybody that showed up free tickets. Something that I thought would never happen, especially at a big resort like Mammoth. I think that most of the people there made up for it at the bars. The conditions were some of the best I have seen for an opening day in years. With warm sunny skies and enough snow to take runs all the way from the top of the mountain. Then towards the bottom on one of the runs there were some boxes set up for some fun early season jibs. After shredding all day we ended up camping out for a great night with plenty of frosty brews and then of course for a big night at the bars. Saturday morning got off to a late start because some of us were feeling a little under the weather, but we made it to the mountain for another solid day of riding with a solid crew. So make your way up here when you get a chance for some of the most fun early season snowboarding you will ever find this early.
- Prime parking spot right in the front
- Lots of C-Lo in the back
- There was a lot of this going down
- Posted up Thursday night in the Main Lodge parking lot ready for the morning
- Nick Russell pumped to do some chairlift boarding
- Free tickets for Friday really brought people out of the woodwork
-Nick Russell, Myself, Nate Farrell, and Greg Bokenkamp
- Greg poking a stalefish around the back of chair 3
- Greg
- Beers for breakfast in the liftline with Sticky and friends
- Plenty of snow up on chair 3
- Free tickets brings quite the crowd
- Nate Farrell and Nick Russell
- Matty Mo blasting a method looking like he’s back on the east coast with this little sidecut jump
- Ashbury’s Lance and Mike Hakker
- Jack Mitrani on the sundeck
- Matty Mo front boards on one of the many new jibs Mammoth has just made
- Matty getting over some rocks with a mandatory landing or else he would be tumbling into rocks in the landing
- Same run nosebonk on the slanted box
- Great opening with plenty of snow
- We had a legit campspot. (L-R) CBass, Tyler, Ben Gavelda, Danny Davis, Pat, Nick Russell
- Jack feeding Layla some weiner
- Jack getting up some wood
- Tyler making a natural fridge
- Tyler about a hour into partying
- Layla, Danny and Nick
- Nick walking the plank
- Getting ready for another amazing day of riding Saturday morning
- Danny boardslide on the slant box
- This thing will probably be fully buried with snow soon. Danny getting after it while you still can
Now is about the time for everybody to start getting real excited, because with Hot Dawgz and Handrails kicking off the year it will be soon be snowing before you know it. With typical Southern California weather sunny skies and a cool breeze made it ideal for the riders to strap back onto their boards and see how it feels for the first time in a while. As always Bear mixed things up with two different options for many of the worlds best rail riders to pick which run they wanted to take. On the riders left side you had a tricky kink/elbow rail that many riders had trouble with, but the ones that were making it through did some sick shit. Then you come in hot to a new feature bear has made with a box on the top of a uphill pyramid. That will be a blast this winter when it’s on hill. Your other options on the other side consisted of a 6 foot drop, to a granite skate style ledge. Going into more options after that. To the left a jump into a slanted wall ride. Or if you made a right at the fork you would get into a long C-rail. Then to finish it off one more feature at the end that could be hit on either side. Leave it to Bear Mountain to make the most wild pre season rail set-up ever.
As for the riding there were a lot of standout riders that might not have made it to the top three but they killed everything. Johnnie Paxson came out firing after just having the last part in MFM Technine’s “Hard To Earn” video on every feature the Bear park staff could put in front of him. Kyle Lopiccolo rode well after not seeing snow all summer hauling ass all over the place and going for in classic Lopiccolo style. Ryan Paul is a kid from Minnesota who was at Hood all summer and it showed this weekend turing the heads of the crowd on every feature, look out for that kid. Dylan Alito was busting allver the place in his summer rail jam attire opting to not wear pants while hiking around in the heat. Then there is Tahoe’s Brandon Cocard and Johnny Lazz who made it down to show the crowd some amazing moves. Making their way out from Vermont were Forest Bailey and Yale Cousino who were some of the only ones to make it through the curved kinked rail with front boards. Ted Borland, Cam Pierce, Chris Brewster, Brandon Hammond and more came out from Utah and rode impressive. Jed Anderson will blow your mind anytime you see him on a board. Rails, pipe, jumps, doesn’t matter. The list goes on and on.
So check all the photos and see what you might have missed from this season’s kickoff event from Big Bear. Thanks to Clayton Shoemaker, Brad Farmer, The Park Staff, riders, fans that came out, and everyone that made this event another great one at Bear Mountain.
Results 1. Scott Vine 2. Jed Anderson 3. Zak Hale 4. Jake Kuzyk 5. Ryan Tarbell
Best Trick: Ted Borland
- The RV getting prime parking status. Makes the walk to the car for a beer break, maybe even a safety meeting, a lot easier
- Two different lines to pick your path of destruction
- With a little teamwork, this guys does not seem to have any problem getting his load of the white stuff out
- This is where kids as well as adults will do anything for some free product, and I mean anything
- Creepy Cyle getting kids psyched over at Electric
- More activities at the Electric tent
- Not only was Bridges announcing the contest with none other than Todd Richards, he was getting the shot all day too
- Keegan Vilaika
- Ryan Paul giving the kinked elbow rail a go
- Matty Mo was the first one to really start getting after the wall ride. Buttery frontside 270 in
- JP Walker judging the wall feature
- Brandon Hammond switch frontside 180 tailpress down the new ledge feature
- Johnnie Paxson slays everything in his path
- Johnnie getting wild, corked out back 540 into the wall
- Textbook frontboard with plenty of speed to launch off the end
- You know you see that sticker. Dylan Alito down for snowrev
- Dylan blasting a back 3 wallride in his best summer attire
- Ryan Tarbell getting some speed off the bomb drop
- Johnny Lazz gets into a switch nosepress for the mob of people
- Kyle Lopiccolo tweaking out a roast beef on the wall
- Kyle again, this time grabbing stalefish blasting way up the wall
- Lopiccolo backside 180 press, half cab out
- Kory Klouser watches Kyle fly off the end after a solid front board, then holding it till he stomps in the flat
- Jonah Owen made the trip down from Oregon to put down some of the best moves seen all day on the wall
- Bear loc Johnny Miller handles the long c-rail with a frontside boardslide
- Ben Rice turning it up a notch on the ledge, backside 270
- Riceman navigating thorugh the kink
- Forest Bailey frontboards the shit out of the turning kink rail
- Brandon Cocard is down
- One of the most wild moves done all day on this feature. Brandon sliding 50-50 up, then frontside 3 onto the corner of the lower section of the box.
- Ted Borland looking like he just smelled a fart
- Ted holding a very technical tailpress all the way through
- Bundy locking it in, then popping it out to the bank
- Bundy again, this time nosepressing through it
- Ted pretty much biting Jamie Lynn’s style right here. Not that there is anything wrong with that
- Bundy with sick moves on everything. Backside boardslide pretzel out
- Ben Bilocq fully locked onto the corner of the granite ledge
- Yale Cousino making his way from Vermont to be another one of the standout riders of the day
-Mayor of Bear Chris Bradshaw
- Louif Paradis frontside lipslides the C
- Videograss filmer, editor, and great dude. Justin Meyer
- The chosen one. Jed Anderson
- Jed is too good. As seen here, handling a textbook front lip through the kink/elbow coming off the end perfectly square
- Jed getting inverted on the wall. Backflip wall bash
- I don’t remember if Cam Pierce made it all the way to the end on this one, but a backlip through this things is pretty bonkers
- 2009 HDHR Winner Scott Vine gives the wallride a backside rodeo
- This dude getting some fresh stickers on his new board. Good Looking out
- It would not be Hot Dawgs and Handrails without a bunch of people getting hammered drunk on the sundeck
- This guy got a little too hammered and decided he needed to be a badass and fight. Welcome to the 909
- Notice the blood all over the wall. Don’t fuck with Big Bear cops
As July comes to an end it has also brought the hottest weather of the summer. Of course the snow is melting pretty fast but don’t get the notion that it’s still not amazing up here. There is plenty of snow up on the Palmer Snow Field and both High Cascade and Windells have been maintaining and making new features every session still. This session at High Cascade has also brought some of the best photographers in the biz to give campers all the pointers to see what it takes to take photos like some of snowboarding’s best.
- It might look like things are getting pretty thin up there, but there is still plenty of snow on the snowfield
- Matty Mo threading the needle on a narrow strip with plenty of consequence
- Tim Zimmerman giving campers pointers this session with High Cascade’s photo session
- Jed Anderson one of the many times he killed this rail all day long
- balancing act
- There are still some decent size jumps at High Cascade to get some airtime
- Jonah Owen sending it deep. Switch frontside 900
- HCSC Digger Justin Keniston locking into a front board
The Bonfire Pipe 2 Pipe contest had the third a final event of the summer. However with the rail jam going on the same day as Snowboarder Magazine’s America’s Next Top Pro Model event and I can’t be in two places at once. So after a long day on the hill the RV was packed up with a bunch of people to cruise down to the skate section of the Pipe 2 Pipe at Windells one more time.
- Sawyer Deen not scared to blast frontside airs on the quarterpipe in the fun track
- SCODubs tre flip stomper
- Matty Mo
- Josh Bishop hippie hop over the barricade
- Forest Bailey cranks out a frontside flip during the contest
- I don’t remember this guys name but here he is going about mach 10 with a front salad grind
Once again for the second time this summer Bonfire’s Pipe 2 Pipe rail jam and skate contest went down last week at Windells Snowboard Camp. Unlike the first time they hosted the Pipe 2 Pipe about a month ago. Both High Cascade and Windells were both in session bringing out a larger turnout, along with a bigger bag of tricks. Then of course comes the skate contest later that night. With skaters from all over Portland. So they get the chance to not only skate the private skate paradise known as “Windells,” but also get a chance to get some loot.
- Chris Brewster taking a break from digging today at High Cascade, stalefish over the rail
- Campers and competitors like Vultures around the free hot dogs
- Matty Mo with the tunes all day and night, then taking a break to take his runs
- Sawyer Deen gettting through the flat-up rail keeping it between the bindings
- Ted Borland, front board though the kink rail. If you look at his left hand you can see his lunch
- Ted again on the wall ride
- Ryan Paul went in the am division and killed it the entre event, 50-50 front 3
- Johnny Lazz, backlip through the kink
- Sawyer Deen getting after the bottom ribbed tube
- Evan and Kevin tally up some scores
- Rock, Paper, Scissors for who goes up for the game of PIG
- Castro and Java are really good at announcing
- Sawyer holding it together for finals
- Johnny holding it down a little harder, coming out big with a backside 270 hardway to front lip, backside 270 out
- Tim Windell and Johnny Lazz
- Sawyer after a long day on the hill, and getting slammed into still going for it. Kickflip on the Windells Fun Track
- Unknown camper slaying it. Back Smith
- Matty Mo again down at the skate jam
- Jed Anderson Lien Air
- Backside 180 nosegrind
- Ryan Linderman comes up from Portland for all the Pipe 2 Pipes to haul ass all ovder BOB
- Loot
- Strip Club? Not for Johnny
- L-R. Johnny, Ryan Paul, Sawyer Deen
Results:
Men:
1-Johnny Lazz
2- Tie
Sawyer Deen
Ryan Paul
Womens:
1- Victoria Guinn
2- Madison Blackley
3- Laura Rogoski
2009 Bonfire Pipe 2 Pipe Skateboarding At Windells
2009 Pipe 2 Pipe Words: Joe Carter Photos: Joe Carter
Bonfire has once again brought back the Pipe 2 Pipe contest back to Mt. Hood and Windells. Tim Windell for three days out of the summer opens the gates to the public after an all day rail jam event on-hill. Then for an evening of free dinner for everybody, followed up by an insane jam format skate contest, where the skaters seem to come out of the woodwork to haul ass around the newly renovated BOB indoor park at Windells. Along with all the other new concrete features that have been placed around the whole camp, making it skateboarding paradise. We had just got there in the RV a little after 5:00 and there were people everywhere skating the new concrete and when the pro division went down all the skaters there threw down. There will be plenty more coming from Mt. Hood all summer long with the Snowrev RV posted up in Govy giving you the inside scoop.
- Sawyer Dean after riding all day and winning best trick was not done yet. Killing it skating for the second part of the contest.
- Nick Dirks seems to be pretty pumped on all the new concrete stuff around Windells. Back Disaster on one of the new features.
- Josh Bishop cranking out an indy on the high speed track.
- Scotty Arnold popping out of a back tail on another one of the features.
-Wait there’s more, Scott Blum frontside slash on some quick tranny.
- Nick Dirks coming out of a high speed back smith on another one of the concrete bowls
- Tacos and burritos for everyone.
- Scotty Arnold testing out his carnival skills outside BOB.
- Scotty again now inside BOB putting down a buttery tre flip up the euro gap.
- Josh Bishop again with plenty more moves on the mini-ramp.
- Matty Mo holding down the tunes for the contest after landing himself in second place earlier on the hill.
- No shortage on the attendance. This was the scene around the whole park.
- Scotty Hoffman taking the first place trophy.
- If Sawyer was of age I bet he would make a stripper one happy person tonight.
- Girls top 3
- Robin Stoddard came out with his buddy from Maine having no clue this contest was going on. He slayed it the whole time againt some heavy competition landing him 500 bucks.
Finally, Kyle turns the big two one. So we pile two cars full of our friends and make another trip from Salt Lake City to Mammoth. Once we got on the road the fun began. Kyle was making fucked up bagged mixes of whatever he could find in the car, and piss, to throw at Mac and Sam Spedale’s car. In Nevada we gambled at gas stations. Then we made it and the party began. Our first night started out at our old house where Mitch Richmond now resides for a warm up before heading to the bars at Midnight for Kyle’s first time legally in the bar. That next morning all of us somehow made it up to the mountain for a sick pow day, with about half the time spending it at the Main Lodge bar. Slamming white Russians until we got kicked out for Kyle puking all the floor. After the hill we made a mandatory stop at 5 Boroughs in the village for some pizza. You might think at this point we might slow down. Wrong. We kept the party going all through the night for Matty Mo being the DJ at Whiskey Creek that none of us remember, but I’m sure we had a good time.
- A mellow 8 our drive from SLC with 10 people
- Kyle’s ammo consists of wheat thins, cheez whiz, Rice Krispies and of course, piss.
- Joseph hoping to find gold from the slot machine and his nose.
- Night one of partying and Mitch is getting a little bit tipsy
- We got some shredding in while it was puking snow and a few drinks deep.
- Capko making a suprise appearance to watch this little guy play human pinball at the bars.
- Three out of the four people here don’t remember this picture at all. I bet you can pick who.
- Raging
- A few more wasted runs as the snow is shitting on us
- These guys are hammered drunk
- Kyle puking for the first time as a 21 year old.
-Toadsback ending up in his back after a few too many dudarinos.
- I didn’t know you can get kicked out of the bar at Main Lodge, but I guess they frown upon throwing up on the carpet.
January in Utah
By Joe Carter
Photos by Joe Carter
In January I’d usually be on non stop mission looking for some new pow. However like a lot of other places around the country right now, the snow in Utah has not been falling the past couple weeks. The best part about Salt Lake is that you can just got to Park City and get some good park days in and catch some airtime. All three parks are up and already much better than they were last season. The pick and shovel park has has got some small jibs and a really fun jump line along side the enormous pipe that has been getting cut to perfection every night. The Jonesy’s park is now fully open with tons of features to make your legs rubber at the end of your day. Then when your nice and warmed up you can head over to the Kings Crown park to get down on the big jumps. That unlike last season have nice long smooth takeoffs to put you up there. Then at the bottom you head into the 60 foot jump to slow down and hit the rail feature with some stairs.
Then If you don’t feel like driving up route 80 you can still have an awesome time just cruising with some friends at the famous rail gardens. Matty Mo, Austin Granger, Ben Bogart and I jumped in the car for a five minute car ride to ride the double line for a few hours right after the Bozwreck dudes had a session.
Of course we have also had our fair share of raging too. Laura Hadar was nice enough to open her shop FICE up and have a party in downtown stocked up with plenty of Sailor Jerry rum to get everyone at the party nice and fucked up. Then there’s a couple more photos from a night at Pat Fenelon’s house where people were getting some fresh stick and poke tats and rest of the night, I just don’t rememer for some reason.
- Getting up to Park City for the first time this year.
- Parking lot view of the Pick And Shovel park and the Eagle Superpipe
- Dan Brisse is one gnarly guy on a snowboard. Stomping a quick cab seven.
- I don’t think halfpipes get bigger than this thing.
- Elena Hight hiking the pipe with some more of the US team.
- View at the top of the King Crown jump lines perfect jumps
- Wyatt Caldwell pokes out a front 3 on the first kicker.
- Caleb Flowers takes a different approach and plants an ally-oop andrecht on the tranny that is also cut on the sides of the jumps. It would be sick if all resorts did that.
- John Steward tests out the 60 foot bottom jumps with a backside seven melon.
- Jon Jon again back 50-50.
- Torah Bright and Jake Welch taking a break from some hectic schedules to just take some laps.
- Jonesy’s park. As you read the there is now more open above.
- John Steward backside nosepress
- Same trick, different spot, really really pressed. Ben Bogart comitted at the Rail Gardens.
- Matty Mo comes back to the rail gardens after breaking a rib the last time here and puts down a front board on the double line.
-The spliff pass, maybe the best trick done all day.
- Chris Eacott from Australia grabbing that Bozwreck board stale on the second rail.
- Austin Granger. I think this was a front lip 270.
- Matty Mo’s face looks like he’s pushing out a turd really hard, but he’s just getting into a frontside 180 nosepress.
-It sucks when people bogart your chicks. It’s sick though when Ben Bogart puts down some back lips.
- Mac Spedale feeling the free Sailor Jerry. That shit’s good to the last drop.
-Grete, Louie, Elliot, and Mac downtown at FICE
- Nick Dirks wants to do this to your babies.
- Evan Lefebvre hurting from getting that rusty needle in there for his new Skeleton Crew tattoo.
- That’s it Evan. Pound that SoCo to forget about that shit.
We were up cruisin around some Western, NY spots when off to the side of the road we spotted a big rickety old toboggan chute leading down into a sledding hill. Matty Mo, pointed it out and I pulled over so we could give it a try. It was actually pretty mellow but kind of just an interesting shot.
Anyway we get out of the car and start checking it out and right as Matty is about to walk up the chute to strap in and drop some news reporters roll up. They seemed really interested in the boardin’ about to go down since they were showing up to do a story on how the town wouldn’t be opening the chutes this winter because of lack of funding. Matty scored a big time hollywood interview with local news reporter, Alysha Palumbo, a true grade A thoroughbred, and then we were on the 5 o’clock news Buffalo, NY’s channel 4. Here’s a video…
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