Poway Woot Woot

  Yesterday I went to the Poway Skatepark. It was lots of fun and not very crowded either. You would think that 12 to 2 on a Saturday would be pretty crowded but apparently not! There were some pretty good local kids there. I'm talking 10, 11 years old. Anyways, It was definitely hot out there. The snake run was fun as always and the bank on the other side of the park was even more fun. I was trying Footplants and Bonelesses off it the whole time. (I landed them both I might add.) Just a side note, since they put in that fingerprint scanner and those cameras, there has been fewer thugs coming in unless they hop the fence. Anyways, I thought it was a fun session!

Am I the Only One Who Likes Groomed Snow Better Than Powder?

           Over the weekend, my awesome dad and I decided to take a weekend long trip to Mammoth. We packed up got in the car and hit the road at 6 am. By 11:45 we got there. It was a beautiful day up in Mammoth. We checked into a hotel room and headed staright for the mountain to get some runs in. The setup was super sick. They had a jumpline on Forest Trail that was amazing. Also, The superpipe was great. 22 feet high of pure awesomeness. I loved that and rode it all day!!! Eventually the mountain closed for the day at 3 but it was still an awesome day!! Then since we still had time left in the day, we went to Gomez's in the Village which was cool! And after that we headed to the Mammoth skatepark about 5 minutes from our hotel. It was a very natural feel to the park which was surrounded by trees and snow covered mountains. It was awesome! Then that night it snowed! the forecast said 2-4 inches, but fortunately or unfortunalety, it snowed atleast 7 inches before 9 am. We walked 2 blocks in the freezing cold snow and caught a shuttle to the mountain. 5 swurvy snowy minutes later we were at the mountain and headed straight for the Gondola. The winds were unbelievable and the Gondola shielded us from the winds. Unfortunately, with that kind of weather, the groomed fast snow thats great for jumping, jibbing, and Superpipe riding (The snow I love), all freezes and then your left with ice or super deep powder great for slashing and spraying (The snow my dad loves). Since I'm not the biggest guy out there, I couldn't maintain any speed even going straight down. I didn't give up on freestyle riding, however, it wasn't as fun as the first day. Overall, It was a very good trip even though we drove for 12 hours over all and only Snowboarded for 6 hours. Totally worth it.

My Visit to the OC!

      Now I could start off this post by talking about what I normally talk about but I won't. There that was a good hook. Anyway, I went to the Mission Viejo Skatepark on Saturday. It was small, no doubt. But it was still fun. The banks were steep and it had 1 bowl. Even the snake run didn't have coping on it, yet it was still easy to have fun on it. It definitely gets some time to get used to the steeper banks, and rigider edges. You could run a line for a long time though, the flow was amazing. Also, on a totally unrelated subject, I think you all should vote fot Mt. High for TransWorlds Best Park Contest. http://snowboarding.transworld.net/1000152535/featuresobf/vote-now-in-the-2012-resort-poll/ 

I've put the link to it above. If you haven't been there, you can take my word for it. I gave it an overall of a 9. Have Fun!!

Hmm Fantasy Day?

          Yesterday I got to go to the Encinitas skatepark and the Oceanside smaller park. It was amazing! Very hot day though. We started off at the Encinitas park with maybe 30 people there overall and we pretty much had the vert ramp to ourselves for most of the time. Also I landed an Indy grab off of a quarterpipe onto a higher ledge. A progessive day indeed! After that we headed to Oceanside and had the park to ourselves. lots of transitions and you can pretty much keep a line going until you're too tired to keep going. It is super flowy. I hope you all are having a fun spring and skating a lot. :)

Contest at Mt. High

     Even though the contest season is pretty much over for snowboarding, Mt. High is still having the KTG Funky Junk Rail Jam up there today! It's a chance to be innovative and creative. Plus, tomorrow everyone rides FREE! Also, they will have an easter egg hunt tomorrow which looks like fun! Despite the snow season being almost over, there are still plenty of ways to satisfy your need for boarding. Skateboarding is one great way! I always get pretty good over the summer because I have so much time. Or there's PowderPak or other artificial snow companies that allow you to snowboard year round. Then there's places like, High Cascade Snowboard Camp, Windells, I believe Mammoth will have a summer boarding camp this year, and of course it's always winter somewhere, so while we're in summer, New Zealand is having it's winter I think. Bottom Line, Don't be too dissapointed that the season is coming to a close cause there are still lots of other ways to have fun on a board!

Books, Hmmmmm...

The book I mentioned.

     I started reading Todd Richards book "P3: Parks, Pipe, Powder". Now, normally I don't like reading however I really like this book. It has stuff that I can relate to and is interesting to hear about the history of Snowboarding and Skateboarding. Plus it's is a book that looks challenging to teachers! ;) In other news, when I got the 1080 Kicker ramps they came with a an additional rail. I finally was able to raise it as high as it will go (1.5 feet) and boardslide it. In other other news Mt. High will be closing on Easter but before they do they will have an Easter egg hunt and there will be cash prizes.

End of Season!! :(

     I took a final trip up to Mt. High today! Lots of fun. The snow was definately spring snow, so towards the end of the day it was pretty slushy. Very good day though! Eventually puddles began to form and you could ride through them, like pond skimming. All of the employees had a "Spring" in their step today! What's great about SoCal is that I was snowboarding in a T-shirts today. You can't do that many other places. Only 1 more week left so if you can, I suggest making it up 1 last time before the season ends and then wait in excitement for next year!