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Archive for the ‘Snow’ Category

See You There.

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Today was one of the best days of the season for me. Despite the usual long traverse lines I got the chance to shoot with my long time friend Willie Nelson and his skiing is almost as rad as his name (win-win). We had a solid half day to work some of his favorite cliffs and bag some new ones he hadn’t sent this season, I even got to make some turns as well (no big). Not everyday is like this one but something about today made it “the day”. Maybe it was catching up with old friends, no pressure just point and shoot at whatever Willie wanted jump off of. Enjoy the photos.

Crowds heading towards the light, looks like Thursday is the new Saturday.

First sender was this air to chute, someone side stepped the entire thing but i don’t think he minded.

There was such fast weather moving over the mountains today, one minute snow the next clear. You can see Willie waiting it out left center of frame.

Tiered of waiting, just send it. He rocks the OG moss pants with a egg jacket, lemon lime combo.

Things have finally gotten to normal with snow pack around the resort, Willie has wanted this one so we scouted it for a minute and there was plenty of snow to go around.

Good light and he stomped it. Landing looks flat in the picture, it kinda was.

Then to the backside, what is a day of photos at Alta without sending the infamous A-Frame cliff. In one run we bagged this air to the slash shot below.

This photo might be one of my favorites this year (claim). I like the dark foreground that adds emphasis to the rider in the sunlight.

One of many spots to touch some sky in Little Cottonwood.

Stoked to see you out there Willie!

Fin.

Mt.Hood Weekend

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Got my first park laps of the year with Landis. Got to stay at Sharkin’s house at Windells too! Classic formula for a great weekend.

A Weekend at Hood from Landis Tanaka on Vimeo.

White Whale.

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

As everyone probably knows to get a movie worthy shot these days takes hours/days/weeks of effort. The conditions have to be right for that particular feature, especially a feature as large and high consequence as Chad’s Gap. Spring in snow country is always a gamble, it can be blue bird one day and pounding 20+ inches of snow the next, making it very difficult to plan a shoot and maintain the feature (Chad’s is the most work). Over the past couple days I had the pleasure of meeting a lot of great people behind the scenes especially in the case of chad’s gap, a feature of this much history, you never know who will show up to help out. Though I will not show photos from the actual shoot (don’t hate) in respect of the filmers, photographers and athletes that put so much on the line to produce the high quality video and print each season. I will share pictures of the different perspectives that I was able to capture throughout the past week.

Dan Brisse and BJ Leines waiting for the weather, unfortunately the weather didn’t end up clearing this day and it was BJ’s only window before leaving for another trip (frowny face). I have looked up to that dude forever you should probably watch his video gangs segment before going out to shred.

No matter where you are in the Gulch Mt. Superior is the background fixture that has made so many jumps famous, for the back drop alone makes the shot.

“ah folks this is your captain speaking, if you look below you will see skiing’s most famous gap.”

A couple angles from different days. This one below is from the day after it snowed 20+ inches and the in-run was completely filled in again, dig dig dig. Standing there is Brent Benson, Steve Rosenthal and Tim Durtschi.

I took this 30 second exposure at 6:00 am one morning when I arrived at the jump, it was really a cool experience to watch the sunrise over the gulch. While I was hiking I kept noticing headlamp flickers all the way over on superior in the background, not just one but a few groups of people spread out all over the mountain, dawn patrol for real.

A view from a little bit closer than the last two, you can see Austin standing on the track to give it some perspective.

An in-run perspective.

Dan Brisse usually known for his jib game came out and gave the gap a second look.

Better be conditioned, Brisse shows he’s not scared to hike.

Durtschi has shiny stickers on his helmet.

Miller Time #3

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

The third installment of Miller Time.

-Euro trip with Level 1… Tanner Rainville, Josh Bibby, Wiley Miller, Jeff Cricco, Josh Berman.

Miller Time #3 from Wiley Miller on Vimeo.

A beautiful day for Freeway

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Yesterday and today have been debatably the best of the season for some park riding. I came up with my buddy Seth to get some sequence shots for a photo competition. I also ran into some other friends, which is quite common on such a day. Myself, Chirs Haggarty, Jake Black, Jake Knigge, and Seth had a long and fun day. Many tens were thrown, a handful of dubs, and the occasional method! Then, Chris and i topped off the day with a few laps at Key under the lights to meet our buddy Jon.

Corduroy morning. Look at that view!!!

meth

Jake Knigge. back 9 mute?

Jake Black airing the mountains.