2013 Captain's Log (AKA Rider's Log)

Phil, back 3.  gopro doesn't shoot enough frames in a row, hah

I have the hero 2.  phil's back 3 is from frame 1 to frame 10, just too much air time.  I think that feature is more so meant to allow you to pick the best single frame, rather than make sequences, although for certain things you are able to capture full start to finish

LoL yes the arrow helps a lot I thought he was jumpin into the frame from the right.

Day 9: got an unexpected snowday today! so after my 5:30 lift i went back to bed woke up to a phone call around 10:30, it was my buddy goating me in to go boarding. it didnt take much effort for him to get me to go, since it was puking snow. So we packed up got on the road by 11:45 had to take it easy on the way bec the roads were sketchy. got there about an hour later. rode til 4. 

HOKKAIDO is THE SHIT.

Matic - sent you a pm about that japan snow trip. I think its time I drop the cash on one for 2014.

LOL that's an amazing pic of Hokkaido, that is definitely the shit! those lifts are definitely carry the weight of three people. HUGE smile on my face just looking at that.

^great bluebird pow.  Huge backside 3 for Max - I'm impressed

Man Spenser, you truly live the dream! Always awesome pics. I must say though I would be pretty scared going into that shack haha, a lot of weight on it and doesn't look to be the most structurally sound shack I've seen.

^^^ I think the eskimo term is "wind buff" -- I can't wait to ride pow again someday . . . .  Had a ton of friends (12+) out this past week and bookend weekends to ride Tahoe.  No fresh snow, but plenty of bluebird and too much fun to hang with the crew again.  Got days 25, 26 and 27.  Thought I'd be riding more but I twisted my knee again the first day (two saturdays ago) and honestly could barely walk the next three days.  (I don't think standing at the harvey's craps table all day on Sunday helped, but it was fun and profitable).  I iced it, took it easy and ate a bunch of vitamin "i", and made a miraculous recovery to ride Kirkwood this past Thursday and Heavenly on Friday.  Those were two of the nicest spring days I can remember in a long time.  Didn't ride very hard but we did a great job of hanging out all day and I got a great goggle/sunnie tan.  We stayed at another friend's ridiculous rental by the beach in zephyr/elks cove, here's the action shot of my wife to sum up the week

in and around unless otherwise noted, yessir

I know it's cliche to say around here, but damn Spenser. Damn.
I think out of all the stuff you post, the Wedding Bowl stuff always amazes me. Maybe it's the view...I dunno, but rad man. Glad you (and everyone else here that is 30+ for the year) seem to be having a great season. 

100% sure the wife and I's season is done. That's how it goes when you are broke and stuck in Ohio. Funny too, getting about half a foot in the city over night tonight. Real pretty snow, that super high moisture, sticks to everything kind of snow. One of these years we shall move out of this flat land..

Oh, and Spenser...the shots where you have the ocean and all those ranges in the same frame always remind me of this song... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCD7fbhylM0
New life goal. Listen to that while standing on a mtn, looking at the ocean, with mtns behind that. Word.

Been snowing, snowing & snowing in Summit County (A-Basin, Keystone, Breck, Copper,etc.) for the past couple of weeks. Can not wait to go riding this weekend!!! Although it's getting late in the season the snow totals are finally coming around to where they should be.

Originally posted by adeodadus Hey Spencer, maybe you should host a SpencerPalloza_snowboard meet in your area  Just got to figure cost.

Very good points _ I for one do not have enough backcountry experience.  I have paid for Heli and Cat trips and even hiked some bowls but still do not consider them enough based on the amount most ppl who live in areas with this terrain.  Trips with large groups are stressful when you are concierge.

When you coming to CA ctoma? I'd love to make some fresh tracks with you and your clan in Tahoe sometime.

Originally posted by julius77 When you coming to CA ctoma? I'd love to make some fresh tracks with you and your clan in Tahoe sometime.

hooo-meh-god that dog is cute.
Looks fun as shit dude. Keep gettin out there. Shootin for a hundo this year? Think it's possible/something you want to do?

Got an off day in Elko yesterday and my friend came out to hit up Terminal Cancer Couloir in the Ruby Mountains just a little south of here.  Bitchinist thing I've ever done.  Here's a screenshot I pulled from my notebook, I plan to throw together a video when I get back home:

Originally posted by ctoma Originally posted by julius77 When you coming to CA ctoma? I'd love to make some fresh tracks with you and your clan in Tahoe sometime. Hell's bells, j, I have no idea.  I was just telling my wife this morning that I want to go to Tahoe next year (we're going to Keystone, CO this year) as they were showing scenes from Squaw on a Warren Miller movie that one of my crappy movie channels was showing.

I hope you make it one of these days, because I'm probably not going to ride in MI anytime soon- sorry. We left Detroit in '81, when I was just a child, and haven't gone back. Squaw is really nice with tons of different terrain. It's just a fun mountain to spend time on. I'll be at Northstar on Sat (hopefully all day on the backside steeps) and either Kirkwood or Heavently on Sun. So excited. Loving my epic pass.

Bryman- that chute looks intense. You get 5 cojones points for that sheet.

thurs, march 7.  Don't know why we didn't get as much as the rest of the sierra nevada, but, for all practical purposes, it was still a powder day.  Reports were 6", but it felt more like a foot to me.  Maybe it was because no one bothered to go up for all those little 2-3" days, prior, and it never got packed down...and even this day was basically deserted.  Looked like about 50 people on the entire mtn, mid-day.

whatever - I got shin to knee fresh tracks all day.  Glades were doable, too.  This year, our snow base sucks so, near the bottom, it was sorta sketchy with some ice and rocks felt underneath (glad I took my old board), but the peak was super fluffy with soft landings.  Damn good snow and unbelievably fast.