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Things That Sound Good But Aren’t

Justin — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:23:49 +0000

Carrying a full keg up 2k vertical feet/3 miles. The idea starts off with good ol’ fashioned backyard engineering and ingenuity. “Just build a wooden platform on skis!” “Make a light metal brake for the rear so it doesn’t slide backwards!” However, the pre-tour optimism quickly gives way to the reality of the physics

TR: Baker Splitfest 2012

Justin — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:29:58 +0000

Baker Splitfest was ridiculous. Between the weather, testing a theory on consecutive days you can eat pizza and while repeatedly stressing your liver, and the number of people that were there…just insane. Splitboarding has officially gone from beardo to brodown.

Short summary: Sunburns and cold smoke. Long summary: Below. Holy shit can’t believe I

TR: The Enchantments 2011

Justin — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:22:58 +0000

Preface: I’m typing this less one finger so report is scheduled to get longer with time. Yet again sliced myself on a knife, same damn finger, right down the scar line, bread knife this time. Probably should leave the guns with the parents at this rate. This ninja shit ain’t for amateurs. This time

TR: Mt. Adams

Justin — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:14:54 +0000

So first, let’s just get it out of the way now – if you saw a guy that looked like anybody in the below pictures on Adams a week or two ago but rode like a total chump it wasn’t me. I swear.

Anyways, Mt. Adams is the second highest mountain in Washington state,

Mt. Adams summit panorama

Justin — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:34:12 +0000

Quick ‘n dirty ‘n washed out due to lack of CPL panorama from the summit of Adams. Click (and then click again…) to view larger.

aka I hiked 6k vertical feet for horribly suncupped crappy turns and all I got was this lousy

One Pic TR

Justin — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:01:09 +0000

Will have more eventually but my computer is being a b.i.

Jackson Day 3

Justin — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:14:08 +0000

Yeah, these have been a bit slow getting out. Not feeling all that verbose, so just a few photos.

Sick Westfalia Syncro (4wd) with truck bed liner paint job. Yes, I’ve got permawood for VW busses of all vintages.

Vista

Was so windy it blew out a three burner gas grill with

Jackson Day 2

Justin — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:07:12 +0000

Guess I didn’t really update the ol’ blog when I was there. Here’s a quick day 2 recap.

After waking up to the below view from my tent was stoked on the possibilities of the day.

Rolled from Victor, ID over Teton Pass into Jackson. Cued up the obligatory Modest Mouse for the

Jackson Day 1

Justin — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:57:21 +0000

Pulled into the Teton Valley area around 6PM last night after being on the go since 5AM (and being awake since 2AM – of course was too stoked to fall back to sleep). Long drive made longer by the fact that my Chewbacca had to cancel at the last minute leaving me to roll

Trip Report: Surveyor’s Ridge

Justin — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:28:16 +0000

Distance: Not far, a leisurely 10 miles

Weather: Sunny with an intermittent cloud early. Halfway point saw the wind kick up to where the clouds were moving so fast it looked like riding in a time lapse video.

Short summary: After last weekend’s attempt at finding a different trail resulted in almost running out