From Loveland to Homeland

Last mission on this US trip was Keystone, CO for me. In all these years of snowboarding I never made it to Colorado so I was looking forward to this. The jib crew gathered for another shoot to get some shots for the new Burton movie "Standing Sideways". The weird late April weather treated us actually well. Although it was either snowing or raining every day, it would always clear by the time we made it up the hill so we ended up snowboarding and shooting a bunch anyways. The park crew built us some amazing features! Maybe not the biggest obstacles but definitely good for the guys to show off their creativity! I had good times and a lot of fun hanging with the crew! I'm off to Europe now for a few days before I come back for one more shoot in May.

Beats bumbin' - Blotto jumpin'!

Zak

Corey

Alex

Ludde & Ethan

Ethan is so good!

First shot of me in a while, thanks Blotts!

Scenic Drive

On our drive back from Idaho to Salt Lake City we did a bit of a tourist route. We stoped at Hailey skatepark, which is probably one of the gnarliest transition parks I've seen and pushed around for a bit. Second stop was the "Golden Spike National Historic Site". Americas first transcontinental rail road was connected at this point. Not far from there we visited as well the "Spiral Jetty", which is an huge earthwork sculpture constructed by Robert Smithson. The whole thing was basically built out of mud and rocks. Pretty impressing and the area where it is, is beautiful! For sure worth a visit.

We were three guys, driving three cars back to SLC! I was kinda bored driving 8 hours by myself as you can see..

Gabe & me

Maurer & me

Last Spike Site

The Tourists

The rail road where the west joined the east.

The Great Salt Lake

The Spiral Jetty

"Fuck it, Dude, let's go bowling"

The hotel we stayed at had it's own bowling alley with a few lanes! On one of the down days we had a little tournament. Charles probably won it but we don't know for sure since Maurer deleted all our scores.. I don't know if it really happened accidentally or if he was just bummed about his score. Well, in the end we did a "one frame, 20 dollar buy in game" where the best score would win 200 bones! Kazu and I scored a strike so it was a head to head battle between us, which unfortunately Kazu won.

Pretty sweet, right?

Kazu, Charles, Zack, Blotto, Maurer, Andro, Peetu and Seppe

good style Z

Grilo

yeah Gabe

by that time he knew he beat me

Snowy Sun Valley

My next stop was Sun Valley Idaho. We went there for another one of our numerous late season shoots we'll have. The resort had already closed down so we were the only ones on the hill. The jumps looked really nice. The first day we got to ride was beautiful. Second day it snowed, the third it rained, the fourth it was good again, so much for sunny valley.. Kazu, Seppe and Charles put down a serious jump session!

Sun Valley

Seppe multi angle

Seppe multi angle-1

Seppe multi angle-2

Seppe multi angle-3

Seppe multi angle-4

KIDS

Here is some shots from "The Launch". We also had a kids shoot right after the event in Park City. It was so much fun to hang out with all the little guys, so much energy and motivation.. and of course good riding too!

Zak is definitely getting covered

TK

good style

mellow crew

Maurer was in SLC the same time so he came up to hang with us

trying to be artsy

That's how filming goes down these days

POW for a change!

I've been to Park City now for a few days for the Snowboarder Magazin's kids superpark "The Launch". The first two days it was really nice and sunny just like it was in Europe before I left. Today I woke up and it had snowed about a foot! The terrain here is pretty flat but it was my first powder day this season so I'm not complaining at all. I'm actually pretty stoked! It felt good to do some powder turns for a change.

very nice!

looking good

joy

Being TM ain't bad at all, especially on days like this, right Z!

No more winter at home!

Today we had 25°C ( for my american friends 77°F) in Innsbruck! I haven't had a single proper powder day this season and it doesn't look like it will happen. It already feels like summer here. We went to Kühtai today and it was another great slush shred day with my homies! Minishred, slush, sun and radler...so much fun!

really important!

Kühtai

Bene was killing it today!

smooth

I don't know about this one.

Stefano was cruising.

Bene

I caught some air time too.

monkey dance

da lacht er..

Good times!