Happy Birthday America

A beautiful weekend down at Ortley Beach, NJ to celebrate the 4th. Plenty of waves with water temp around 70deg and air temps in mid 80s. PERFECT!

Before the fireworks started about 100 or so people broke out singing the Star Spangled Banner on the beach! Plenty of beers and people celebrating.

Soligully. I don't know what happened to him after this photo was taken

Almost like powder skiing

Mini wave catchin'

Found It!

After months of hearing nothing back from Loveland ski patrol - took matters into my own hands. My baby's will be reunited next season!!!


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Holy Fish!

Red Feather Lakes, CO

1 hour
6 Rainbow Trout
14"-16.5"
1.5 - 2.5lbs

Good Eats!

150 DAYS TO "SNOW"--- My Summer Activities

Playing Golf at Richter Park

Cold Smoke in Cold Water catching Trout

Sneaky Bass Fishing

Last days of Utah

Gerald, Doddle and Tiph putting out the firery furnace fire.  It was a blaze

Loving it with beers, friends, marshmallows and celebrating the Ski Season
Chilling after a good night sleep under the stars
First night and then was relocated to another room with a different view the next night

DOdoubleD sleeping with the critters of the Moab backcountry

gooseberry mesa, utah 4/24 - 4/26

Rain was coming in for the weekend in Northern Utah. Decided to go south and ride Gooseberry Mesa.

Porter having some alone time with the marshmallow.

The road below leads to the polygamist towns of Hildale and Colorado City.

Burst and Balance.
String.

Scott

Porter. Still thinking about the marshmallow.

At the point.

Winding down from a good day of riding.

PBR in focus.


Enjoying the PBR.

Two more join the party.

Sunday morning. Porter wish he had some more marshmallows.

Mapping out the Jem Trail in Hurricane.

Gould Trail. That mesa in the background was our campsite.

Hurricane Trail. Porter wants to finish now to get more alone time with a marshmallow.

My last two weeks in Utah

Last Powder day at Brighton for the 08-09 season.

String and I took time off our 9 to 5 schedule to get one last taste of the powder.

This is String going big off a cat track on Great Western



This is myself getting some air and enjoying the landing. Oh so soft!

From opening day-closing Solitude Mountain Resort

An awesome and one of/ if not my best season yet. All passionate skiers have a checklist ready before the season begins. As the season goes on the list grows exponentially when you check something off.
Here is the checklist that I created included with add-ons that I can look back at for years to come. Started out with some stats:

Solitude Resort total snowfall-540"
skied over 1 million vertical,
32 Fantasy Ridge hikes,
20+ days in the backcountry
119 total ski days.
other resorts- Alta, Deer Valley, Jackson Hole


Fantasy Ridge aka Honeycomb Cliffs
Shot# 3 (2x)
Shot# 5 (4x)
Shot#10 (1x)
Shot#10.5 aka "Banana Chute" (2x)
Shot#11 (3x)
Shot#12 (2x)
Shot#19 aka "Hanging Bone"(1x)
Shot#22 (3x)
Shot#23 (1x)
Shot#24 aka "Little Dollie area"(3x)
Shot#27 (3x)
Shot#29 (1x)
Shot#37 (1)
countless Aprons

Backcountry Highlights
10+ days Silver Fork/ Flannagans runs
4x USA Bowl
East Couloir
Argenta
Argenta Pillow Line
PC Ridge Line
God's Lawnmower
Seagull Chute
Grizzly Gulch
Michigan City
Stupid Chute
Willow Fork
Millcreek Canyon
Bear Trap Fork
5x Guild Line
10,420
Claytons
Sunset Peak
Summit Peak
Liz's Corner

The End 08-09

Every season comes to an End. Sometimes hard to believe, when you get good snow days in April. And to look back, and realize in all started 5 months ago in mid-November. The 08-09 started at K-Town and ended at K-Town. In between gave me memories to last a lifetime. Thank you, all, for making the last 5 months sooooo much fun.

Boomy and I, downtown Hue, VN.

Freshies..... 304 Backcountry

I you only Knew..... I Know

My Last Run in BCC----Soligully

Jackson MFing Hole

The Solitude crew at Jackson Hole. Great times with great friends. This pic below is all of us with the infamous Cody Peak in the background.




Last Tram of the '08-'09 ski season leaves to park at the top.



this pic is a beater in Corbet's Couloir. Wait that's ME after a mandatory drop in where I was working my way and lost my edge on the snow before the drop and fell in, stuck it and straight-lined to 40mph chattering speed instantly. No crash which was good. One word of advice. Don't try this on tele skis(scary fun)





Rendezvous Peak where the tram takes you up 4,139' vertical. Corbet's Couloir is the narrow strip of skiable terrain towards the top from the Teton Village