RSS FeedPreface: Up til Friday I’d never met Kyle Miller in person. Originally heard about him by by way of his occasional trip report on splitboard.com and TAY. Noticed he spent a LOT of time in the Crystal Mountain area, which is near and dear to me (well, near is relative right?), and after seeing his [...]
Archive for November, 2009
TR: Playing snowboards with Kyle Miller
November 29th, 2009 
Justin 
Posted in Trip reports 
Tags: crown point, crystal mountain, dan howell, kyle miller, trip report 
4 Comments »First look: Stoic Bombshell jacket
November 24th, 2009 Justin Been doing some serious gear whoring the past week or so as biz locally was going good for a bit. Was. Ahh well, at least I’ve got some new gear to show for it. First up, the Stoic Bombshell jacket. Stoic is the new name for the house brand gear from backcountry.com, and from what [...]
Voile introduces the ‘Light Rail’ and ‘Trax’ splitboard bindings
November 23rd, 2009 Justin One of the worst kept secrets in the industry has been officially revealed on Voile’s site tonight. The Voile Light Rail and Voile Trax bindings. Yes, that’s right, Voile has introduced their own splitboard bindings. Reaction upon initial view of the Trax: meh. Reaction upon initial view of the Light Rail: meh I guess I [...]
Vote for Spark R&D at ispo BrandNew
November 19th, 2009 Justin Saw this over at Chris/BCRider’s site splitboard.com. Spark R&D has submitted their Fuse splitboard binding to the ISPO annual brand new contest. ISPO is the International Trade Fair for Sports Equipment, held for the last 40 years in Munich. The brand new contest is an international competition rewarding innovation and technology in the sports and [...]
Sale spotted – BCA Tracker for $229.99 at REI
November 18th, 2009 Justin NOTE: This is a bit of premature blogulation. Apologize for that, I’ll get you next time baby. Was just browsing the latest sales flyer from REI, apparently their Winter Sale starts Friday. As part of the sale they’ve got the BCA Tracker avy beacon on sale for a penny short of $230. This is a [...]
VIRNE – a Finnish freeride movie
November 17th, 2009 Justin Matti emailed me this morning saying he found the blog when looking for some information on the Osprey Kode. He also passed along a link to a movie he and a few friends made. Film is made practically zero budget with cheapest consumer cameras, but I think level of skiing is great. This movie has [...]
GNAR WARS
November 16th, 2009 Justin I missed this one the first time around, thanks to Wend mag for pointing this one out. Adobe Aftereffects + spring park riding + some Star Wars costumes…just wow.
Bluebird and fresh
November 16th, 2009 Justin Yes plz. Are there any Novembers you can recall where there have been more bluebird days with fresh? As much as I love a good PNW flat light day, hugging the trees so you can get a feel for slope contours, I’ll take fresh and sun 9 times outta 10. Reports from Baker to Crystal [...]
Friday the 13th aka Mt Hood Mead-OH NOES!
November 13th, 2009 Justin First off some math. PLUS EQUALS Serious bonehead move. Grabbed the bindings from my splitboard and a Burton board out of storage. Yup, 4×4 equals 16, not 3D. Usually this wouldn’t be a problem as I’d have spares in the trunk, but the junk in my trunk is still in full-blown summer mode and filled [...]
It’s baaaack….BEER FRIDAY!
November 13th, 2009 Justin Well, it’ll be back later today once I find a phillips screwdriver and go stretch the legs up at Meadows. I’ve done a ton of ‘research’ on local beers lately, and gotten back into brewing my own again, time to start dropping knowledge on what’s making my man boobs jiggle these days. To be continued….
