Mountainous Month of Memoirs – (01/23/11 thru 02/28/11)
Yep, it has been SNOWING…
(the infamous Spur shot of 2011)
Date:
January 23rd – February 28th, 2011
Locations: Kirkwood, Northstar, Squaw, Mt. Tam, Stinson Beach, Academy of Sciences, Pacific Crest Snowcats, Oahu, Lanai, and some more Kirkwood.
Weather: January thaw to 3 meter mega storms to sunny Hawaii
Riders:
Skier666, lil’ 666, MildBill, Steven S Dallas, Dblatto, SPC, Unpossible, Jrosen32, Tyrome Shoelaces, Dhelihiker, powdork, lph, arty50, DaveP, SuPu, JMetzler, Mach Looney, Slim, etc
Cameramen:
666, Steven S Dallas, Powdork, JMetzler, and others
POV VIDEO – How about two…
AND….
Music: Nu:tone – ‘Broken’
Synopsis:
Here comes another major photoblog to make my cameras feel useful. From the epic heat to epic cold snowfalls, to teaching your kid how to ski, to roaming the Hawaiian Islands, to skiing pow with your friends, to roaming Redwoods at the Pacific Ocean.
Java Porn: A coffee pic from a good mate in NZ…
January 23rd, 2011:
What better way to spend a Sunday than taking your kid on his first chairlift session on a sunny Kirkwood day…
Oh yeah, first time on Chair 9 baby!
We’re both pretty stoked…
‘Dad, I want to go in there!’….’Ummm, son, its frozen solid’….’I don’t care.’
‘Yep, that’s right, I fucking killed chairs 7 & 9, and no, I didn’t ski in these sweats, keep walking….’
When will California fix these damn levees?
January 29th, 2011:
Next, we headed up to Squaw and Northstar…as luck would have it, it ended up snowing a foot or so after the heat wave….
I can do this…
Faster please….
Mom, bearing child, takes some turns with BOTH kids….
I’ll showcase my skis right over here…
This thing is lame…
Time for Papa’s break…
January 30th, 2011:
Squallywood…after the great warm January of 2011
Pow over bulletproof…
666 tries out his new coat…
Unpossible follows my lead in Broken Arrow….
He doesn’t look that bad for Bay Area motherboard expert…
Broken Arrow’s pow being broken…
February 1st-7th, 2011:
Took a commercial airline to Hawaii. Oahu to be exact. This is how to travel with kids…
Here’s some shots above Lani Kai beach…
So artsy….
My wife is too fast for me….
Scenic.
Such an ugly beach…
I fell down in there….only suffered a broken brain.
Don’t tell him that those are knock-off Ray Ban’s.
When then spent a few days soaking in the sun on Lane Meyer’s home island, Lanai. Here’s a sunset.
February 13th, 2011:
Back in the Bay, the wife and I go for a hike near SF…
Yes, I fell off that ladder…
Stoner water pics….
Mossy….
I call this one ‘Tree Bark’…
Fallen tree pine needle stoke…
Finally made it out of the forest, but a storm is brewing….
February 16th – 21st:
It begins….
Very close to snow in San Francisco…
Dblatto said it was snowing in Napa…here’s proof:
Yep, California for ya’…
SSD sends some pics from Tahoe….BEFORE:
AFTER:
The Roads got dicey…
But roads were open…
My car really wanted to drive on the groomer, so we left early…
Definitely winter at Kirkwood…
Arty50 makes a turn…
SuPu, well, he’s got some shit stuck on his face….
Dblatto skiing aggressively…
DaveP goes for huck neck…
Mach Looney? Hard to tell….but its still cool.
Just a little bit of snow…
I left my car over there. No wait, over there….
Hard to take pics on a powder day, so here are some POV stills to prove it was good…
The snow flew around…
Dhelihiker takes his first leap in Upper Cham…
666 goes next…
Dhelihiker on Oops EP area…
666 follows behind…
Near lower Cham…all filled in…
Powdork takes some shots of us, Here’s me flailing yet sticking the 90 footer….yippie.
Dhelihiker’s knee felt better…
666 over the Waterfall Cave…
Dhelihiker liked that idea…
Powdork gets a high line score…
Lph makes a powder turn in lower Cirque…
Ahhhhhh, all praise Caltrans for the shuttle over the Spur!
After being shuttled through to Silver Lake over the Spur, this guy couldn’t find his keys…gosh.
Pleasant surroundings…
Avoiding traffic, 666 took three major bridges to get home…
The next morning, it was chilly but crisp…
Kinda weird to see snow when you wake up in SF….
We then headed to the Academy of Sciences in GG Park, this cheetah’s meal was interrupted by my son banging on the window…
Real Penguins! Woot!
Jellyfish steeze….
February 24th – February 27th, 2011:
666 takes a nap after the long drive to Crystal Bay from SF with DaveP…
We awoke to find out it barely snowed in the 4 hours that we were asleep…
Driving around Truckee was fun..
Yay, time to go skiing…
With all these jokers? Ugh….
Due to safe snow travel techniques, it was hard to take pics, so here are some POV stills…
Weeeeeeeeee!
Lots of snow even for 120mm underfoot…
But still deep…
The next morning, the storm cleared…
Tallac looked orgasmic…
The Cirque looked even better…
But then it got a tad windy…
666 on Waterfall…
666 in Waterfall…
Tyrone is still jumping off things…
Dblatto does the same….
While I’m finding untracked…
S.P.C tries to out jump the rest…
…but I still found powder…
So then I jumped a few things…
And S.P.C followed suit…
Dblatto finds a late day pow stash…
I head home to take snowplow pictures…
And sunny pics of Mt. Diablo…
While MildBill gets EXTREME in Temple of Doom…
And sorts his line in the Fin Zone…
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That was a long one…