Closing day -Snowbird, Utah

June 22nd, 2008 - Closing weekend at snowbird resort.

The conditions were RAD! hot, sunny, bluebird skys, slushiest slushy snow and LOTS of snow!
I had a great day, my hip did OK, I had to kind of baby it, but I was just stoked to be able to shred the closing weekend of the bird.

Here is me and Sean on the lift:

Look at all that snow! it is almost july!! this is insane and awesome!

Little cloud chair lift...with lots of snow in the background.

Sean is SO happy to be snowboarding right now. He is going to go "fairy fly" down the mt. haha

he takes off, I sure can not keep up with this snowboard racer!

Here is me, not going as fast as Sean goes down the slopes
My awesome snowboard!!
Entertaining ourselves on the lift...I really like this photo

Mountainboard Learn 2 Rides

2 weekends ago I helped teach with The Salty Peaks Mt board team over 100 people to mountainboard. It was really fun and flowed really well. Got pretty chaotic at the end, people leaving the festival and walking in the way of where we were mt boarding. But we put some police tape up and that stopped all the stupid people from walking into people flying at them on boards.
Overall it was a pretty good day. The kids started at the beginner hill and when they were ready moved over to try out the jumps. We got some pretty quick learning talented kids. hopefully they will come out to the next learn 2 ride.

Me teaching some Rad kids who have been coming out for a year.
They have doubled in size from last year and are now big enough to try out the jump!

Teaching them how to strap in so their little feet won't pop out

One of the people learning how to mt board

Paul John's teaching how to "get low" and "bend the knees"

One of the kids who advanced to "the freestyle section"

The end of a great day needs a sweet high five off the jump. Mason and Sean made it happen

quarter of a century

I have turned the big 25...

dun dun dun...
makes me wonder a lot about life.
Makes me reflect on past things...
past events...
where I am at in my life..
where I want to go in my life...

A quarter of a century down...3 more to go.

Some of the things I got for my birthday:

Ryan got me the Last Unicorn! So stoked about that, I watched it all the time growing up!

My dad got my AAA renewed

I got some turtle stuff

Sean got me a back massager! awesome!

Sean also put together a surprise birthday party for me! it was rad!

I got a lot of silly string all over my face when I came down the stairs

Dawn Patrol

Up at 4am, to the base of little cottonwood by 5 am, hiking by 6am.
yeah...that does seem like a long time to get up, get ready and get hiking...but hey...it was super early!

As the sun came up it was beautiful!

Hiking up seeing the sun rising
Sean and I and my favorite snowboard ever! skate banana!