Utah and Washington

• March
• 1

6:44 am snowboarding

Japan was amazing , now its time for some U.S shredding

We started, out flying into saltlake city spent 2 weeks there building jumps in the backcountry , apparently we brought the snow with us , which decided to settle in and dump for days . We built jumps up in grizzly gulch which is famous for Pyramid gap which is a jump to a mine tailings streching 95-100 feet

we warmed up with a few smaller jumps near by , got some cool pictures and footage , and learnt some new tricks .On one of the jumps I landed a frontside double corked 1080 and then browna followed by landing a backside 1080 , pretty crazy concidering we couldn’t land anything else on it .

We spent 5 days on Pyramid three of which were spent building it as the snow kept filling in the runup which is the hardest part of the jump . After the first day we all successfully flew the fastest any of us had ever flown into a snow wall, it was a spiritual expeariance , i’ve never heard such a weird sound come from inside my head before ,and my vision went green for a few seconds ,is that a bad thing? After day two we’d all got over the jump after adding two more feet to the colossal jump , we all got one trick but it was still a struggle to get comfortably into the landing , we gave it two days then hit it again , this time we found the landing was still hard to get too, but still got some tricks on it .I didn’t quite get my double cork,came real close, but browna stomped his backside 1080.

Now we’re in Seattle ,Washington, once again we brought the snow with us . We’re all staying with friend and well known Nz photographer Greg Roebucks who’s been showing us the sites in Stevens Pass which is near two hours away.Yesturday we jumped a tank , a live firing U.S military tank . They use it to fire at the large hills that look over the pass. After a few too many flat landings it was off to scope out some of the Stevens pass resort ’s terrain.

The place is really cool, a smaller mountain feeling with big mountain .lines all over . There’s some pretty big rockdrops up there which we’re going to hit tommorrow, apparently its meant to dump tonight .Check out the pics from Utah more from washington to come………..