Gravity Games went off this weekend up at Copper Mountain. Superpipe and Slopestyle. J5 killed it on Saturday. Where were you?

Big shout to the crew, it was good to see everyone this weekend. Sorry I missed out on the night sesh at Keystone. Some of the weekend highlights included me eating shit into a tree trying to follow J2’s tree bonk line. Kicking it with jordy, sarah, adryan, d, stacy, robin, fej, jenn, mark, nick, ryan, and the a.d.d. crew. Jumping off the top of the ghetto rainbow over the bomb hole, trying to figure out who was on the “cool chair”.

   
  

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Last Saturday I started off at LP again super early, with a couple inches of new snow I knew it would get tracked fast. Around 6:45am I got my first lift up and decided to take one of the less traveled lines back down to the east portal switchback. Made my way over to the Elevator drop and hucked myself off, landing was ok but filled with crater holes from previous hucksters. Did laps over and over and even found some stashes of pretend-a-fresh way off the beaten path. I was pretty surprised because the crowds were not really out in force today. Around 10am I met up with this skier named Aaron, we decided to get a lift up to the summit and hike back onto the ridge. After 20 minutes of hiking we were near the top of Widowmaker ready to drop, lots of good snow and untracked pow up above treeline. Be careful with the Avy danger. We boot packed up the couloirs a few times for some sweet turns down.

Sunday I rode up at Arapahoe Basin and it was pretty sick. The lower East Wall is open and the shredding is tight. Lots of drops and rock bonks, the bowls above treeline had some nice loose snow and there are tons of cornices to huck off of. I rode with Krissy for the 2nd half of the day and we tore up the moguls on Pali face. Tons of rocks over here, I’d stay closer to mid-mountain. I gotta say, Krissy f-ckking kills it in the moguls. Everyone always looks at me stupid when I say I love the moguls. Spent some time in the terrain park early in the day and they have a few features up and going. When you first enter the park you have a choice of a small boot or a small shotgun rail. A bit farther down you can hit a nice hip jump or longer trap box on the left. Once you get into the Lower Rail Yard you have a bunch of boxes to choose from, a long shotgun style rail and a bunch of kickers. Abasin crowds weren’t very bad at all, but the traffic on the drive home was insane.

On a different note, I might be taking a new job within my company. I would be working for our office out in California remotely, it’s in Sacramento. I heard this is kinda close to some shredding? They want me to come out there for a couple of weeks and I want to take weekends and head to Tahoe. Is this possible? What mountains or backcountry areas are near here? Anyone want to grab a beer while I’m out there? UPDATE: in Cali March 14-16th..

Don’t miss the free J5 concert @ Copper Mountain Saturday. Gravity Games boy.

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Again this weekend I meet Mike up at LP hella early to get some lines in before the mass crowd of gapes. We got to the east portal switch back around 6:30am and started hitching. We must have gotten 10 or so laps in before anyone else started to show up. We sessioned some of the hidden stashes all morning and once the crowds waiting for pickups started to get too big we shuttled using Mike’s truck. Ret, Mike and I spent another 2 hours doing laps where ever we wanted switching off the driving. The snow wasn’t the best, but we were still able to find plenty of hidden fresh. Around noon, Mike and I broke off to dig a snowpit near the Sheep Creek avalanche path above Loveland basin. We dug a 8 ft deep pit roughly 11,600ft, 32degree slope angle, N-NE. We did shear and compression tests and found a very weak layer roughly 8-12″ before the surface. Many layers below this, including almost 3 feet of depth hoar. We saw many skier triggered slides and natural point release slides around the Widowmaker and Loveland Ridge. We decided to stay around treeline. Mike took off after we dug the pit and I did some more laps up on LP.

Sunday the plan was to meet up on BP and do some lines in the mines and vortex. Ret failed to show, so the backup plan was to meet at LP for some laps. Mike and I got to LP around 6:45am and it was closed due to avalanche blasting. We waited at the base for a good 45 minutes watching them blast the seven sisters chutes. At least 12″ of new snow the night before we were ready for some serious pow. Once the pass was open we were surprised to find only ourselves riding. We put our beacons on and avy gear and decided to do laps just below treeline. The snow was sick, light blower pow from the night before, we had lap after lap of untracked pow. It was good to see JHBluebird and Fejj up there as well. Pictures coming soon..

Also some kids were up there building the most sketch road gap jump i’ve ever seen, i got way bored of waiting for them to hit the thing so i don’t know if anyone got hurt or not. The jump was about 3 times too small for the gap, i took some pictures. Anyone else see this shit??

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Yesterday I decided to take the day off after watching this storm on the front range. Watching it all day it didn’t really look like it was going to pan out and most of the weather reports had it breaking up and heading south. Up at 5:30am Wednesday I was hitting refresh over and over waiting for the snow report website to update. WP/MJ was reporting 14″ at the base at 6am, and it was snowing hard. I got in the truck and went toward the pow, upon arrival at MJ I was pretty much the first car in the lot. Got my gear ready and started boot packing up under the Challenger lift. The pow was super deep, the kind where you forget what board your riding cause you don’t see it much of the day. After hiking til 8:45, I dropped into Sleeper to completely untracked powder, made my way back down to Challenger lift and got second chair. Rode the front side of MJ most of the day, knee deep most of the day everywhere. It was snowing very hard all day and by 2pm we had another 6″ fresh snow. After a quick lunch break I was over at Timberline doing laps in the trees, the snow here was even deeper. So deep sometimes you’d choke on that shit. Loveland Pass Saturday.

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