Found this vid of Adam Yauch aka MCA of The Beastie Boys riding in Alaska. Cancer took another good one from us, RIP Yauch.
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Yup, another vid from Xavier De Le Rue and crue, this time filming for Standard Films ’2112′. That face gets SHREDDED at mach looney at 3:54 in, holy schnikeys!
Alaska Dream – De Le Rue brothers filming for 2112 / Standard Films–TimeLine S02E07 from TimeLine Film on Vimeo. According to Cameron that run is ‘Grethen’s Gulp’ at Camp10. Cameron’s last name is Finnish so I believe him about all things snow.  Double black diamond, beware! Trail map done on Paint by a 2nd grader FTW! This video made me do yes cartwheels. 8 minutes, 2 seconds of win, with an honest to God/Buddah/Allah/higher power of choice beer spitting LOL at the old man on the boat. Travis Rice is living 50 Cent’s line “And if they hate then let ‘em hate and watch the money pile up”. I mean yeah, it gets old that everything he does is sponsored by some huge entity and follows the same damn formula each and every time – wax philosophical as whirlybird shuttles you up, get out of heli, time slows, fish eye shot, drop in, still a bit slow aaaannnnd…speed up. Make turn, slow mo spray, quadruple heli angle, etc. BUUUUUUT you KNOW if someone was offering you even a fraction of T.Rice money to ride a fucking snowboard (aka get paid to have fun) you’d be the first in line to sign the contract. Anyways, Travis Rice doing what Travis Rice does, obviously with dry pits this time around. This isn’t your usual ‘blue sky and balls deep’ type stoke. In fact, not sure it actually qualifies as stoke given I’m still removing pieces of couch cushion from my ass due to some octopus grabbing. Was chatting with alexduff1 from the twitters this morning and he was talking about Chamonix, Aiguille du Midi and other things that seem about as real to me as pro wrestling and trips to the moon. This was the first video that came up when I used the googles to check out the arete he was talking about. Apparently there’s usually a railing with ropes (and more of a shit show as seen in vid #2, fastfwd to about 3 minutes in) to use to steady yourself here. You can run all day long up and down a 2×4 laying on the ground, but put that 2×4 up in the air a few feet and it’s a different game. Balls. More from the Timeline Films guys. Nothing like five heli assisted turns at machlooney as a ‘warmup’ run. Same planet, different world. There were always jackasses being towed out of the ditch on snow days. You can’t drive 90+ mph just because you have 4WD, who knew? This is the man behind the lens for my favorite web edits, the Timeline Films stuff. Think about the snow photog for a minute. Rare, the good ones. In any given year there are hundreds (thousands?) of riders that are good enough to get featured in the mags, but how many individual photographers have a good enough grasp on their craft to get their work published? (and yes, theres an argument to be made that the level of skill required has gone down exponentially with the instant gratification of digital combined with shooting in RAW and digital darkrooms, but that’s a convo for another day) Thankless job, often climbing the same lines as the riders, only to sit in the shadows and wait to ride their sloppy seconds. Or, in the case of some of the Deeper/My Own Two Feet type stuff, sitting nearby and waiting…and waiting…and waiting….while the stars climb their line, pulling your fingers into the palms of your mitts and shivering your balls off while waiting for them to top out and the light to get right. All of the work, none of the glossy 8x10s of your mug and Friday night at Chair 9 bro hoe gratification. I’m rambling and need a 2nd cuppa joe, watch the vid. Epic commercial is epic While it sounds like a place the kid with the patchy barely post-pubescent beard covering a mogul field of pimples and perpetually rockin’ a torn up black t-shirt would go to for summer vacation to play Magic cards and LARP with his ‘voted most likely to be a school shooter’ ilk, it’s not. White smoke and people that are pretty damn good at riding their splitboards rule the roost in this vid by the boys and girls at Backcountry Magazine.
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