Poor Man's Heli

Blanche de Putrey is French for ‘makes your starfish pucker’. First descent, 1978. Second descent…possibly during the filming of this movie. That view looking down at 1:57 in….duuuck fat.

The Deeper crew swing another episode from the back seat of their Jeeps. Dunno, the more I see these teasers the more I’m thinking I just want to see quick cut scenes of people hitting a cheesewedge while MGMT (wait, the tight jeans/hipster meets hippy 80s synth redux thing is dead? Fine, let’s go old school and throw some brohymn in there…but can we get a version where the opening bass riff is played on a keytar?) plays in the background.

Pausenot.

Between the part in the Krakauer book I’ve been reading about flying around AK, to the new Surfers Journal article about scouting lines from a plane, makes me want to revisit getting my pilot’$ licen$e.

Another thing that seperates contenders from pretenders – 9000 foot vert overnight hikes.

More teasers for the Deeper flick due out this Fall. One man’s mini golf is another’s lifetime epic.

C’mon now, look at that thing! That looking up shot at 2:09, seriously? Jeebus.

Big mountain line slayer Jeremy Jones announced his resignation from Rossignol yesterday on his blog.

As of today I am no longer working with Rossignol Snowboards. It has been an amazing experience and I want to thank everyone at the company for supporting me the last 19 years. You always gave me the freedom to do what I wanted with my snowboarding. Off the hill I learned a ton about how to develop snowboards from the start all the way to the snowboard shop. This has been my college education.

I want to give a special thanks to Francois Goulet, the North American President. He was pivitol in helping me get Protect Our Winters of the ground and always supported my ideas. It has been an amazing learning experience watching him lead the company.

I have so many great memories from my time with Rossignol and I wish them the best of luck in the future. Hope to see you all in the mountains.

No huge surprise IMO given the way the industry has been going given the current economy, as I’ve got to believe a non-Xgames competing pro costs more than he brings in from an ROI perspective. However, more interesting was this comment Jeremy left in the comments

Stay tuned guys..it will make sense in a few days.

Thanks for the support!

Hmm….we know he’s been on a self-powered kick lately, and Rossi never produced a factory split – all of Jeremy’s splits were done by Monk over at Down the Middle. We also know he spent a substantial amount of time with Travis Rice in the BC this year. Could this be a precursor to the oft-rumored and much anticipated Lib factory split? Only time will tell… (though the Vegas odds are on Nidecker)

In the mean time check this vid from early last season as Mr. Jones hits a slightly rough line.

UPDATE: Looks like the Nidecker rumor is now official.

Coming soon as an OEM option?

Came across this over at Jeremy Jones’ site. “I am not sure when I wrote it but I assume it was late at night trying to clear my brain so I could sleep.” Thought a top rider clearing his head to sleep by writing an ‘ode to snowboarding’ (and subsequently releasing it for public consumption) was a cool, unseen side of a pro, something that would never get come across in a movie or mag interview. When’s the last time you sat down and wrote out what your job means to you? Hell, when is the last time you just wrote for the sake of writing something, stream of consciousness style to clear your head? Exactly.

Looks like a page out of Cobain's 'Journals'

Page 2. Click to go to the post on his site and see the letters blown up to a more readable size.

Somewhere on Hood a kid is working on getting another 90 degrees of rotation and stressing out about his style, contest scores and sponsorships. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world Jeremy Jones and crew are progressing the sport in a different manner while stressing about avy hazards, leaving for their line at 10pm!. Same sport, same planet, different worlds.

Nice views

Xavier de la Rue smiles for the portrait by Jeremy Jones

Just noticed JJ updated his blog with more epic Deeper Alaska goodness. Check it out.

Riding log courtesy of Mr. Jones

Jeremy Jones and crew have been up in the sunshine state of Alaska for a month or so, filming for the movie Deeper due out sometime in 2010. If you’ve been following the blog you’ve noticed that I’m anxiously awaiting this movie like a 12 year old girl waiting for a Jonas Brothers concert. From posting about Travis Rice’s and Tom Burt’s splits for the trip I’ve been following it closely. Jeremy just posted his latest blog entry (along with photos) from the trip on his site and all I can say is WOW! As someone who had been burnt out on snowboarding the past few years relative to how I used to be these kind of trips and pics bring back the stoke I felt in the mid-90s! Good stuff. If you haven’t been to his site yet GO THERE NOW! Seriously, get out of here.