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bigger than a twitter but smaller than a normal post .. just fast thoughts for your amusement
I’m a poet and you didn’t know it
Heres some goofy poems about snow boarding….
Pipe Jock
Flippity flips, twirly whirls and spinny roos
My how you collect awards for the tricks you do
But once you retire its all the same
In five years time no one remembers your name
Backpack Guy
Jansport pack bounces up and down
Backpack guy I know you’re from out of town
Flatlight
Oh flatlight I loathe you so
Yet still down the hill I go
Never even saw that cat track
Now Im laying on my back
Liftline
Hey man why are waiting at the chair
When the rest of your group isnt even close to there
You see them come and you whistle and shout
Id really like to just knock you out
450
Did you see my 450 off the rail it was really neat
My 450 on the 70 footer however was not nearly as sweet
The Mill B trail head S-Curve…
There has always been guerilla marketing in snowboarding. Stencils and well placed stickers are a great way to get your name out especially if youre a small up and coming company. Grenade and Levitation Project are two great examples of snow companies that have created major buzz for their brand using this style of marketing. As you drive up Big Cottonwood Canyon to Brighton there are numerous twists and curves. Many of these curves have the standard yellow directional warning signs around them. Many times youll see someone has placed a sticker or two on the signs. However the real locals and savvy guerilla marketeers know that the best spot to place your stickers is on the S Curve next to the Hidden Falls/Mill B trail head.
The guerilla marketing hotspot the Mill B S-Curve as seen from above the canyon road
You see all of the other signs are continuously knocked down in the winter by tourons ignoring the “4×4 or Chains only” sign at the bottom of the canyon and driving their Chrysler 300′s up the mountain. However the signs that ring the Mill B S-Curve are anchored behind barricades (Jersey Barriers if youre down with the lingo the kids use nowadays). This makes them the ideal spot to plaster your company logo all over the place. A few times each season as the signs become completely covered the Canyon Patrol will go through and clean them off and the whole process begins again. The Mill B S Curve a Salt Lake guerilla marketing hotspot …..
Salt Lake's Niche and Chimera Split Boards getting an early start to the marketing season
Randoms ….. Givin and Standing Sideways reviews, start of season in SLC, few new blogs I’ve found, PC’s newest team member, and gear from Area 241
Over the past week or so I was able to attend both Givins “One” SLC premiere and the Burton “Standing Sideways” premiere. Heres a real fast recap of the two flicks…
Givin “One” … surprisingly One is primarily a pow movie. Its got a real hippy feel to it with trippy music, occasional sky effects, and various color filters effects. Although it starts off with a solid urban part from Forest Bailey after that it remains in the back country for most of the flick (Benny Urban/friends and Keegan excepted). I like the feel of the film and at 50 minutes its worth the 25 dollar price. Wyatt Stasinos has last part (15 minutes) and it may be my favorite part so far this season. Just a very inspiring piece of editing and riding to close out the movie. The only drawback is that the extras sections is just one 7 minute clip of Euro riding.. still as I said the main film is 50 minutes so kinda hard to complain. This is one of those dvds youll find yourself putting in to wind down after a great day of riding. Check it out for sure….
Burton is the big behemoth in the snow world. Regardless of if you love them or hate them everyone agrees that The B can sometimes take themselves too seriously. “Standing Sideways” is NOT one of those times. SS is a light hearted tour de force through the Burton Team (minus that red headed kid and their female team members) including a nice display from Terje. Kazu opens the film and Jussi closes it out. Did you realize Jussi’s third ender in three years? Not bad for the “old guy”. There’s only two issues with the film. One, most of the footage comes from other films so if you’ve seen a good bit of films this season much of the footage will be familiar. Second, only a brief couple of clips from Nico Muller during the credits. Overall its a solid movie but one you may want to watch at your local shop or borrow from a homie.
This week we had a bit of a storm roll through and give us a few feet of snow…. the homies and I headed up to Brighton with the shovels and got our build on…. good to shake the cobwebs out of the knees and goof around a bit. Three days on snow so far for the season! Looks like the weather this week will melt off most of the snow but it wont be long until its falling again.
A wonderful October view
Zeach alert!
Hikes and hikes
You can check out the real riders in a few Bone Zone posts ……
Heres a few sites Ive been checking out lately… stoked to see folks rep their local scene and much like myself and yummy burritos they have combined their love of snow with bagels and beer respectively… peep em
Looks like PC has a new local. Kazuhiro Kokubo has signed with PC as a member of the Park City Allstars Team. Of course PC has an AMAZING pipe and park and should be a great training ground for Kazu but to be honest Im kind of looking forward to hopefully running into the Silent Samurai at Snowbird in the cottonwoods once the pow starts piling up…..
Finally check out Mike Basich’s Area 241 site/store for the 2012 line up of outer wear and also the ingenious reflective wristband for use with your POV camera…..
Area-241
Remember Remember the fifth of ….. July?
This season when ….
you accidentally bring your pipe gloves on a 5 degree day….
dont take enough speed through a flat and get stuck on a 2 foot pow day….
forget your goggles…
re-injure that nagging injury that you get every year…
taco a rail…
get snaked in the park…
get snow ass…
cartwheel…
get pissed at flat light…
lose your friends on the hill…
spend 25 dollars on lunch… just for you…
scorpion…
get stuck on a lift that shuts down for wind…
get a shitty wax job…
delam your board…
deal with heel lift…
hit the knuckle…
land in the flat…
fog up your goggles..
…and all the other little annoyances that make a day on the hill more of a test than a treat remember the fifth of July and how far away it seemed winter was. Remember how long you waited for the new snow to fall. Then take a breath and just remember a shitty day on the hill is still better than a summer day with out snow.
Randoms Think Thank Special Edition, Ultra-Fears are in shops, Stance keeps making cool ass socks, aaaand my first logo?
This is gonna be a fast one just in case you missed a few things…
You can hit the Think Thank store and order yourself up a Special Edition of Ransack Rebellion .. it comes with autographs from Burtner, Visconti, and Pika, banana wax, loads of stickers, a piece of Crab Grab, a SpaceCraft beanie or facemask, a Dinosaurs Will Die Poster ( that I already have cause damn Im that special) and a chance to win either a Burtner Box Scratcher, a Dinosaurs Will Die Maet, or an Arnette/Banshee Bungie Mega Prize Pack
Milosport in SLC has 2012 Ultrafears in stock .. stop by and grab one or hit them up online .. these are always really fast seller at $450… oh also 2012 32 in stock as well!!!
Fuck Yeah Bro!
Check out these awesome Stance/Lakai socks… how freaking sick are these? Seriously Stance is pumping out some amazing product. Fall lines are hitting stores now so go to your local shop and grab a pair … I love mine in fact I have 6 pair of street socks and a pair of snow socks. Hit em up!
WHAAAAT?
Last but not least Ive been playing around with ideas for logos stickers that sort of thing. I came up with a “rip off logo” which to me is very embedded in the skate/snow culture. Special thanks to the guys at BDF who whipped it up for me… theres a tweak or two I want to do with it but scroll down and check it out below … if youre an old guy like me you may recognize it.
Randoms post R.I.P Chris Cahill, few new links, DLX Summer Krooked Site,Celtek/HCSC Collabo, and WTF TWBiz
So heres a new randoms post for you…
First and foremost (and really should be deserving of his own post) R.I.P. to Chris Cahill one of the original members of the Zephyr skate team. Cahill was O.G., he used the skateboard as a substitute for catching waves and for that reason never got into the contest and glory side of it all. He was the prototype “soul surfer” that eschewed the fame, money, and commercialism that eventually inundated both his loves, surfing and skateboarding. His story is very resounding of our culture, broken home mentored by the elders in his sport, and a life of service and devotion to those sports. You check out a really good write up over on ESPN here. R.I.P Chris you were a true pillar of integrity in surfing and skateboarding.
Next up are a few new links off to the right…
Ive added the local skate crew for SLC called SK801 (801 is the SLC area code so nice play on words). They have a cool little blog going on and a great scene for SLC skating. A good resource if anyone needs to hit up some local knowledge while in town.
I have Illicit snowboarding in here too. Actually I added Illicit a long time ago but failed to tag them with the Friends/Sites key and their link just floated in some invisible prison like they were villains of Krypton or something. I LOVE this blog .. everytime they post it makes me a little less confident in what Im puking out here and there .. if you dont know them yet please give them a look.
The other two are Shred On a newer site thats is a good source for lots of news and information in the snow world. The site is Euro based so you get a things here and there on it that dont make it on the bigger sites here in the States. Finally Forever Shred a newer blog that has to do with sustainability in snowboarding. Forever Shred is written by an environmental scientist that also likes to get her snowboard on… a really fascinating site. Good luck to the both of them as they push forward.
My boys DLX are dropping company pages for their summer lines and their first page dedicated to Krooked dropped today. Check out the summer Krooked site here.
You know how the guys at Celtek love to do collaborations… well campers at HCSC this season will get the chance to get some special Mt Hood Celtek/HCSC collaboration Mitts and Facemasks dubbed “The Volcano Collection” … just another reason to be jealous of all those HCSC campers! Peep the images below ….
Finally, readers here know I dont talk a crap ton of smack on the site ( you should ride with me on the lift though) but some times I see something that I just cant let slide. TWBiz posted a report today about the passing of a California state bill that would put sales tax on internet purchases. As a result major players such as Amazon have stopped doing business with California affiliates. In our own sports the Backcountry.com family has also announced they will end business with California affiliates. Now this isnt what I wanted to talk about… what I wanted you to notice is the map (pictured below) that TWBiz used. Click to zoom…
Check out California , the state referred to in their article. REALLY TRANSWORLD BIZ, YOU ARE GOING TO USE MSPAINT TO “SPRAY” CALIFORNIA GREEN TO MATCH THE KEY OF THE MAP. I MEAN DAMN I KNOW TIMES ARE TOUGH OVER THERE AT TRANSWORLD MEDIA (maybe that whole Transworld Tiddlywinks idea wasnt so great) BUT FUCK YOU DONT HAVE A SINGLE PERSON ON STAFF THAT CAN ALTER THAT IMAGE FOR YOU? IN FACT YOU DONT HAVE A SINGLE PERSON ON STAFF THAT KNOWS ABOUT THE LITTLE PAINT CAN ICON ON MSPAINT THAT WOULD JUST “FILL” THAT RED STATE WITH THE GREEN COLOR YOU DESIRED? DAMN I MEAN JUST DAMN ….
