Life’s opportunities are endless, as is the potential for snowboarding in Alaska. This image sums up both quite nicely, and motivates me to work harder, because I want to see it all.
Whats more fun than having fun?
For some, it’s all about precision, for others it’s about power, and others yet its about being spontaneous. Bjorn has a perfect balance of all three.
Donner Pass is THE official terrain park for backcountry snowboarders. Easy access via resort or road, no snowmobiles allowed, and nestled right at the top of the Sierra’s. It’s densely packed with terrain features, and one of my favorite zones to shoot.
Sometimes you’re on your own. Nobody wanted to hit this with Aspen, so we rolled up there for a solo session. The snow gods had set the lip and in-run up perfectly, it took less than 20 minutes to build it. Then Aspen went for it. He kept saying how crazy it was to hit it alone, and then we looked at this photo and saw that he wasn’t.
I’ve never seen a tree like this, so I begged Gigi to ride a few lines under it with me for some photos.
An injury took Bode Merrill out of the session and he left the hill to deal with it. Garrett was loving this jump so he stayed with Kyle Schwartz and I to ride it until the landing was done. I’m glad he did, this is the best snowboard photo I’ve ever taken.
I like to imagine that I could have been a fighter jet pilot if I didn’t spend my life pursuing snowboarding. Funny thing is, riding a snowboard is pretty damn close.
Perfect is as perfect does
What do you get when you take fluorescent colors, a long haired Australian, that new snowboarding fad, and throw them off a cliff with a perfect blue sky backdrop? The full glory of the era between 1985 and 1996.
Mostly we spend our time getting our sleds stuck, and fixing the things we break on them. Still one of my favorite things in life.
Tahoe is pretty tropical these days, but man, when the right storms come in off the Pacific, it can be as windy and cold as anything I’ve see in Wyoming or Colorado. That’s cool though, it helps you wheelie.
Wake up, get dressed, start the fire, cook breakfast, chop wood, load your bags, fuel up your sled, put oil in the machine, ride 25 clicks and 3k up a mountain, clear a trail with a chainsaw, ride your snowboard, do it all in reverse, and try to find a hotspring along the way.
Light and dark, round and angular… I love it
A little earlier in the day Leland McNamara and myself rode our snowmobiles off a glacier (accidentally) and achieved 99mph as we got spit off the toe. We were pretty scared after that.
This is one of the oldest snowboard photos in this collection, and what cemented my desire to use off camera lighting to shoot snowboarding.
Cowabunga dude!
Ross is one of the most fearless snowboarder’s I ever met. We’ve been riding together since middle school.
Gigi hit this cliff four times and did four different tricks, switch. He stomped all four.
So, ridiculously, perfect.
See you on the other side