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The first Pool Party in 2005 was a highly anticipated event but no one really knew what to expect. Lots of stars showed up, like Lance Mountain here grinding off the hip from the square to the round

Bucky Lasek is always in the running with crazy ass tricks, good style and good lines. Here is Bucky in 2005

Chris Miller is the undisputed king of the combi, winning in 2005, 2006, and 2007

Omar Hassan always does some crazy 2 minute runs, he is insane to watch

The first pro podium, l-r, Dave Duncan, Brian Patch, Rune Glifberg and Omar Hassan

Bob again playing around with a tribute the old combi back in Upland, CA - backside boneless

The first event was a bigger success than anyone anticipated. Lincoln Ueda

Mike Smith rocks a Smith vert at the first event

Mimi Knoop shows us the Pool Party is not just for the boys

The first ever Pro Tec Pool Party pro winner – Rune Glifberg

Even Tony Trujillo was there and he skated so smooth

Al Partenen slides through the corner in 2006 at Pool Party #2

Here is Bob again at the end of the pro jam final, he is looking pretty exhausted

Bob Burnquist front rodeo 5 in 2006

Only Bucky can get this critical in an air to fakie through the corner

bucky with broken wrist in 2006

Bucky Lasek gets extremely slobby

The only Master of Disaster – Duane Peters

Jeff Grosso can rock and roll slide as far as…well uh, Grosso

the winner in 2006, Omar Hassan spins through a 540

L-r, Chris Miller (on phone), mc Dave Duncan, Rune Glifberg, Omar Hassan and Brian Patch

Rune Glifberg – backside ollie off the hip

Two concrete rulers, two generations, one contest – Salba and Rune Glifberg

Salba airs over a friend at the second Pool Party and check the crowd in the background – nuts

Benji Galloway is nick named session killer by Omar. Don’t know why Benji is the funnest dude to skate with, I just think he can do too many tricks

07menspodium L-r, Dave Duncan, Mr. Steve Caballero, Chris Miller and Jeff Grosso

07 propodium Rune Glifberg and Bucky Lasek

07 womens podium L-r, Mimi Knoop, Cara Beth Burnside, Lyn-z, and uhh, I forgot the 4th place finisher

you don’t more classic than this, Micke Alba Airs over brother Steve

Bob Burnquist – air to fakie in a tight spot

Geoff Rowley and Jake Phelps (Thrasher Kingpin) in the crowd

April Woodcock will be girl to watch for in 2008

You think Bob Burnquist can skate different types of terrain?

The Move by Bucky – 540 hand plant rodeo

Bucky Lasek presents to you the Combi Pool which will be sight of some amazing action again on May 17, 2008

You don’t more legend status than John Cardiel and Christian Hosoi – period!!

Holy F*&^ it’s Duane Peters with the trick he invented, about 30 years ago. Never say “frontside Indy” there is no such thing

Long live the Label – John Lucero and Jeff Grosso

Lance Mountain as classic in 2007 as in 1987

Classic Chris Miller

Vans rider Josh Borden and king of the combi Chris Miller

Lyn-Z doing her best Duane Peters imitation

Rare daytime Darren Navarrette sighting

Omar Hassan

Rune pays tribute to style

Rune pays tribute to Shane Cross

Ben Schroeder’s skating is so powerful it has to be seen to understand – crazy egg plant

At every event Steve VAN Doren will be out at the grill

TNT and You Tube star Jake Brown. Seriously Jake is one of the most talented skaters out there today

How about Sergie Ventura, Tyler Mumma and Bucky Lasek coming at you?

On Sunday afternoon a lot of the folks from Omatic left so after I cried alone in the woods mourning the fact that my friends Ed and Louie Vito left I shook my self off and went to the naked hippie hot springs about a half hour North of Truckee in Sierraville. The thing about Tahoe is that if you get off the beaten path at all you have pretty much complete solitude. The hot springs in Sierra ville were so cool, no alcohol but lots of hot springs and cool people in a beautiful setting. They have organic meals and lodging, see the photos

The meadow in front of the resort

peaceful nightfall sky, away from So Cal

trail to heaven or at least the naked hippie hot springs. No photos allowed there - for obvious reasons

peaceful spot

The Globe “hotel” was built in 1870 and used to be a brothel and a chinese card palace at one time. You want to stay somewhere different – this is your place

Next day it was off to Sqauw Valley which had a lot of snow, no bare spots. Squaw was and kind of still is the “extreme” spot to be. When you see the photos you will see why. It has more cliffs, chutes, and rocks than perhaps even Jackson Hole. Jackson is probably steeper but Squaw has seemingly endless pockets of rock jumps and stuf – all in plain view, hence the nickname Sqaullywood. Back in the day when magazine photos came from resorts that notaml people could ride and not helicopters or sleds back like 25 miles from the road, Squaw was the backdrop for many snowboard photos. The photos may come from elsewhere but Squaw is still bad ass, check the photos and check out a historical spot – Squaw Valley

Acres: 4,000
Lifts: 34, including 7 high speed lifts, two gondolas type things and a tram
Parks: 4 and at least a superpipe
Web: www.squaw.com
Season: Nov-May
Snowfall: 450”
Vert: 2,850

Argueably KT22 chairlift offers, inch for inch, some of the most challenging terrain in the USA. If you are here on a powder day, you are STOKED

Squaw Peak, Siberia Express and bunch of other lifts down lower in the photo. Siberia lift was closed but you are welcome to hike over and ride Squaw Peak anyway – and people were

Sqauw has the biggest Tram in the USA

Shirley Lake Express lift and part of Emigant Peak

Granite Chief lift which is where the majority of steep lift served spring riding is

Looking down the main rain on Granite Chief

The public park was looking fun too, especially for May! Hits of all sizes

Now I noticed off in the distance some people killing some HUGE kickers, then a helicopter started filming them

So I walked for like 20 minutes or so and it turns out it was the whole Forum team filming for a video. The team manager Brian Knox, was pretty cool and said I could shoot some lifestyle stuff but he wanted me to not shoot the jumps so they could save it for the video. I mean I guess they spent all that money so I was happy to do what he said. There were three people in the heli; the pilot, Ian Ruhter and the fimer

Jake Blauvelt waiting for his run

Stevie Bell was having fun. He wanted to take a ride in the heli but Brian Knox said “this is not Disneyland, this is expensive” Stevie cracked up. Stevie is from Utah and you would think that since he is the only black dude in the hole state he would be shunned…rumors prove that the opposite is quite true. it makes sense too, Utah chicks are dyeing for something different, something to distract them from their daily boring life. If you are from California - take your pick. If you are Stevie Bell…they come running, or so it has been said

Joni Malmi

Pat Moore and Peter Line getting towed up

The heli was getting super low to the ground to film them and it was super cool to watch. Notice the filmer standing out the left side of the heli

back to reality, bump riding a hella steep run

A run called the Funnel

a shot of the tram from the bottom

On the way back to the airport in Sacramento I stopped at the Foresthill bridge which is the highest bridge in California at 730 feet tall. Lots of people base jump off this thing, throw cars off for movies, jump off without a parachute (suicide). I just read a book about a ranger who patrolled this area, pretty cool book. Look in the lower right hand part of the corner…

…this kid was sitting on the bridge and his girlfriend was pissed saying “how much longer you going to sit there” People were rafting the river and sunbathing down below – 730 feet below

back at work Monday people asked how my weekend was I said “well I walked to the middle of the highest bridge in California and did not jump” They just kind of looked at me funny, not sure if I am serious, others laughed their ass off but if you go to the Foresthill bridge to commit suicide, you can call these people first

While the better half of Snowrev.com were down in Mammoth raising cain at the WCI, Ed and I had the good fortune of being invited to a photo shoot with one of the newer teams in snowboarding; Omatic. In case you do not know (If you do know about Omatic, then skip to the next paragraph please) Omatic was formed by Todd Richards, who is kind of the mad genius-do it all of snowboarding, Tara Dakides whose accomplishments in snowboarding and fiendish good looks have made her one of the hottest selling females in the sport and Jason Kaynes who is responsible for a lot of good snowboards throughout history, including 5150, Forum, Jeenyus and more. In fact Jason was responsible for one of my favorite boards - the Forum Bjorn Leines. These three, with the help of Tanya (who has a lot of experience too) are the main brains behind Omatic. With a ton of snowboard companies out there they wanted to have something different, their hook, they provide quality boards at a more affordable price. Enough of the business and on to the action.

Omatic went all out and got Chris “Gunny” Gunnarson to build them a huge kicker at Northstar near Lake Tahoe. Northstar was closed but there is a ton of snow left so it was no problem to build the unique kicker. The jump was so good that Todd Richards said “That is the best jump I ever hit, pleasure wise”. If the riders landed in the sweet spot you could barely tell they were just dozens of feet above the ground cuz it was so smooth in the lz. Despite being a new company Omatic has acquired a strong team. Showing up in Tahoe was; Hampus Mosseson, Louie Vito, Todd Richards, Tim Nelson, JJ Johnson, Max Loos, Thomas Schwarz, Robert Wallner, Murray and Jakob Wilhelmson who was riding a Lib Tech so I am not sure why he was there but he shredded so f-it. Pierre, the filmer from DC was there and other media types. Chanelle Sladics and Tara Dakides were MIA. Saturday was pretty much the day of maximum action. The whole crew was up there. Todd was spinning 7’s making big jumps and taking some big falls at almost 40. Hampus Mosseson has amazing style kind of like Daniel Frank and Danny Kass. Hampus was spinning 9’s all over the place. Tim Nelson, from Canada, was the first to man up and hit the big booter. Jacob did some sick 9’s then got busy doing some smaller tech street skateboarding style manuevers (photos later). Snowboard Revolution’s adopted son, Louie Vito was, I believe the only person to spin some 1080’s. Louie was saying he wanted to learn 12’s. I said forget it, 12’s are wack and we talked about all the people that currently do 12’s and came to the conclusions, 12’s are just a huckfest. Unless someone can do 12’s with style - don’t do them, then again I guess that’s progress, who knows? On Sunday a lot of the crew left, Todd went home to Encinitas for a day before going the east coast, then to Mammoth becasue “6 hours is good for a hurt back”, Hampus and Jakob - back to LAX and europe, Louie - down to Mammoth, which left Tim Nelson and Robert Wallner to step it up for Sunday and they did. With riders from Sweden, Germany, Canada, Austria and the USA it was a great weekend. I learned one thing talking to Hampus about shipping a tricked Tundra, a snowmobile and a custom single speed bicycle back home to Sweden, that is if you can become a pro snowboarder, do it!

Sacramento airport, 11 pm Friday night on the rental car shuttle, after a long day at work - almost hell

The base of Northstar while waiting for a ride up to the jump on Saturday morning at the early hour of 10 am

Louie Vito warming up

Hampus Mosseson has mad style! I had never seen him ride and trust me, he is smooth

Louie Vito and Todd Richards catch a ride up

Todd Richards with a stylee front 7, how many company owners can do this?

Tim Nelson is a rider from Canada, home of the long sleeve. Canadians are super nice but when it comes to sports they can be pretty much nutcases. To prove my point, Tim was the first of the group to sac up and hit the bigger jump. After Tim hit the big jump, it was on!

Todd Richards again and here is a pretty good overview of the jump. You could land either side like a hip too!

Jakob Wilhelmson is another rider I have never seen ride till this weekend. He was riding a Lib Tech so I am not sure why he was there but it was great to watch him. Jacob rides for Quiksilver, Todd rides for Quiksilver, maybe that was the connection. This is a 900

Tim Nelson was the first to jump the big jump as a hip but Hampus Mosseson was the first to clear the whole kit - very sick switch 7

Murray, lives in Canada too, near Tim. Murray had pretty much a broken foot but still managed to hit the jump - death or glory, especially with his boss and teammates watching

Louie, Louie Vito spins a 9. I was pretty much expecting to head out to a strip bar in Reno or something but everyone was pretty chill, not too much partying. Just hanging out at night with friends, riding - the things that matter

Looking from the pit into the light at Vito doing a 1080

Louie Vito and his boss Todd Richards. Todd is pretty much funny all the time - very smart dude, unless he is putting up a front

From l-r, Hampus, Vito, Ollie (photog from Squamish), Todd, Pierre (DC filmer) and Ashley (another Canadian photog)

The boss again - Todd Richards. Todd is pretty much the Omatic team manager and owner. You think when he gives advice on riding he knows what he hell he is talking about?

Robert Wallner came from Austria and did not waste his plane ticket by sitting around

On Saturday night The owner of snowrev.com Ed and Hampus had everyone, lauging so hard they where crying or in shock. Here they are in the middle of the dreaded game “would you rather” with questions brutal in nature

Louie Vito calling Stevie Bell to ask about the eiffel tower. Funny, I saw Stevie, two days later

Sunday morning was pretty cloudy with a lot of the crew gone. Tim Nelson again stepped it up, hitting the hip frontside

Tim Nelson spinning

JJ Johnson with a huge method

Tim Nelson with a big Method too

Tim, spins under threatening skies

Robert Wallner - tweaked chicken wing – so high

Robert Wallner – back 180

Tim Nelson over the hip again, this time alley oop 3

Tim Nelson Alley oop over the hip. About 5 minutes later it started to snow – then rain hard which ended the session. Sucked cuz JJ Johnson was getting ready to kill it

We got more from this shoot coming up soon, including interviews with Hampus Mosseson and Jakob Wilhemson

The upcoming Pro Tec Pool party is always one of the most anticipated contests of the year. Pros from the past present and future show up to have fun, show people how to really skate cement and hopefully win some money. Eric Nash comes out of the woodwork with this Indy Air

Lance Mountain is always a podium contender and always a crowd favorite - powering though the corner

Chris “the Shadow” Reeves lives in Orange County and you can bet he digs everyone coming to the Vans park to practice

What other skateboard contest in the world do people practice, for up to a month for? Not many. Vans rider Josh Borden bones a frontside air over the hip

Jeff Grosso is one of those guys that everyone who skateboards should see skate at least once

Josh Borden with a HUGE ollie transfer off the hip behind him and into the shallow corner pocket in front of him

Frontside Pivot on the hip, this is one of the hardest spots to get to in the whole pool

The Combi pool is as much about lines as tricks. Sergie Ventura got this lip slide transfer off the hip, which is a super challenging spot to a lipslide on

Lasek is always a favorite and if he lands his insane tricks – he will win PERIOD. He has so many lines and so many tricks in here but he has to make them

Ho, hum, just casually catch a heelflip to fakie above giant gaping cement pit that eats humans but not Bucky Lasek is not the menu for the Combi tonight

Alex Perelson has been coming on strong on the vert scene and if he transfers half those vert skills to the complex lines of the combi, he will make top 10 for sure

Yes it is the end of April but here at the Revolution we roll till the last flake melts and you should be too. Truth be told, this my first actual snowboard trip of the year, on April 26th. The first trip that does not involve the pleasure of watching everyone else rip through the lens of camera anyway - I was hyped. Oregon is not really known as a huge winter vacation mecca as much as say Vail is. Mt Bachelor is more so than Mt. Hood but even so Mt Bachelor has no slopeside lodging and neither does Mt Hood, really. That does not mean you should not come here. There is a lot od other stuff to do here besides ride. The nearby Colombia River Gorge is gorgeous, all the skateparks down in the town of Portland, a mere hour away, plus the nightlife, naked hipppie hot springs, visit Nike – whatever. There are four resorts on the flank of Mt. Hood; Skibowl, Timberline, Cooper Spur and Mt Hood Meadows, the biggest of them all.

Mt Hood Meadows is super fun with lots of nooks and crannies. It reminded me of say 10 small east resorts all packed together into 2150 west acres with a lot of snow, good terrain parks and some steep ass easily accesable back country. The inbounds terrain is not too steep but there are windlips every where so the whole mountain is kind of a terrain park. Speaking of park, Mt Hood Meadows often hosts events like Vegetate and photo shots for Mack Dawg and the like so you know they support parks. Heather Canyon has some insane backcountry style runs that access by hiking or by snowcat. Located on the eastern flank of Mr Hood it is a spot to hit for sure while in Oregon. It may even be worthy to spend a week in Oregon; 2-4 days at Meadows and 2-4 days at Bachelor. Of course around the corner from Meadows is Timberline; the US mecca of summer snow but that is another story

Bottom elevation: 4,523’
Top of lifts: 2,777’
Top of Heather Canyon: 9,000’
Lift served vert drop: 2,777’
Total vert drop: 4,477’
Acres: 2,150
Annual snowfall: 430 inches
Lifts: 11 (5 hs quads)
All day ticket: $54 ($64 on peak days)
Parks: 5 and one superpipe
Web: www.skihood.com

All these boats were in the hotel, appearantly it is Chinook Salmon fishing season on the Columbia. You know Slamon, like the ones you see on tv, they weigh like 20-30 lbs

The Columbia River Gorge looking west from Bingen, WA near Hood River, OR

Mt Hood from the Hood River bridge

Riding up the Hood River express

Riding up the Cascade Express lookin at Mt Hood

Hiking up towards Heather canyon

Mt Hood Ski Bowl and if you look closely you can see Timberline lodge

Hiking further up towards the top of Heather Canyon. You are close to the summit of Mt Hood but Meadows (and Timberline) have closed boundary policy. You can not hike to Mt Hoods summit from the lifts

SCORE – insane snow in Heather Canyon, apppearantly it snowed 17″ since Heather was last open

looking back up Heather Canyon

You can ride most everything in the photo except the top of Mt Hood

Singing Elvis at the pond skim - made it!

Forty years of fun!

Portland style Emo tight pants

540 off the jump. Locals said they had so much snow that the parks were a challenge to keep up

The surrounding scenery is, beautiful I spent three hours bushwacking to try to get a photo of Salmon swimming up river or big foot, it was fun looking though– The Wind River in Washington. There are some naked hippie hot springs on the wind river. I was once sat in there with the chick I was dating at the time, big ol’ salmon where swimming up stream, bald eagles were flying around. That was in, uh, 1992. Access to the springs is temporarily closed, times change

The Columbia river and people fishing for Salmon

Mt Hood above the pear blossoms

What a 202” base in April looks like

The pipe and part of the park

Heather Canyon was so sick I had to make that long ass hike twice. In the winter it is served by snowcat, when it can be open. They get crazy weather up here

Rainbow trout

Not too much different than when Lewis and Clark came this way. Well add railroads, a freeway, dams, housees, mini marts, boats and lots of other stuff but it pretty much is still wild

Salba is pretty much in the 1st generation of modern skateboarding. Placing in contests in the 70’s - and still

Chris Miller came up in the 80’s and is probably on a lot of peoples top ten skaters of all time list. Chris is about 39

Bucky was a young ripper riding for Powell at the age of 13 in the late 80’s. He never gave up and still continues to be one of the best skaters in the world in his early to mid 30’s after taking the world by storm in the 90’s

In his late teens, Alex Perelson came up at Clairemont skatepark in the early part of this century under the guidance of Neil Blender and Darren Navarette and his dad with the video camera. Alex is just coming on strong in the past year. This huge and fast ollie transfer is BIO

Riley here must be in his early teens. He gets better every week

My boss Ed said I should hook up with Danny to see for some photos one weekend in Mammoth. This guy was ripping so hard we a got a ton of photos in two days so I decided to ask him some questions…

Name: Daniel Brian Thomas
Hometown: Whitefish Montana
Age: 24
Current Residence: Mammoth Lakes CA
Sponsors: Oakley, Nomis, Bern Unlimited, OneWay Bordshop, and Burton has been helping me out tons….Jesus Christ, Much thanks to all of them!
Favorite snow brands: All of the above, All Analog outerwear…

SR: What brought you from Montana to Mammoth?
DT: I was always riding Powder, and wanted to push it more in the Park, and Mammoth has pretty much got that area locked down!….I also just wanted to get out and explore more of the world God gave us…

SR: Doesn’t Big Mountain have sick riding?
DT: The trees and powder is out of control…plus everyday you can feel like your the only one on the mountain just you , your tunes and God…

SR: Do you ever see Andrew Crawford in Montana?
DT: Yeah I have actually worked to build the little park that we had at Big Mountain and he came in and gave us some suggestions and was probably one of the most down to earth guys I have ever met…

SR: When you first rode the park in mammoth where you intimidated or did you know you could school everyone?
DT: I was deffinitely a little intimidated, but once you start watching everyone throw down, it pushes you more and more to become to land the tricks you always wanted to….it’s always nice to get pushed!…

SR: What is good about living in Mammoth?
DT: Where do I start?…I have learned more in the last year and a half with snowboarding than i ever have in my life, I met soo many good people, lots of best friends, I met My amazing girlfriend here, even tho I have only been here a few years I will always think of Mammoth my second home…

SR: What is bad?
DT: Theres not really many bad points, i guess sometimes I think the crowds get a little crazy, but then I think were all here for the same reason so I can’t really blame them…

SR: Do some of the girls take on multiple partners in Mammoth since there are so few
girls there?
DT: lol Ya know, I couldn’t really say, I don’t really take to the bar scene much…

SR: How do you “get” girls in Mammoth?
DT: Well my girlfriend is the only girl for me, and thats pretty much the way it’s always gonna be…

SR: Should people come to Mammoth or stay away?
DT: I think everyone should experience what mammoth has to offer, it’s a super fun experience!…

SR: What riders inspire you?
DT: I could go on for ever, but here are a few, Lonnie Kauk, Danny Davis, Kevin Pierce, Devin Walsh, Simon Chamberlain, andreas Wigg, I could go all day long…

SR:Best riders of all time?
DT:All of the above and always Terje…

SR: If you could steal the talent, style and or tricks of any 5 riders and combine them into one, who would you pick and why?
DT: I have always liked Danny Davis, and Kevin pierce’s style and tricks but I don’t want to take any of their talent, I just want to have my own style that God gave me and influence the next generation like they both influenced me…

SR: Top 5 songs and/or bands?
DT: Shiny Toy Guns, Kill Hannah, DJ Ratatat, Sounds, Black Audio….super fun to ride to….

SR: Who do you ride with?
DT: Neil Maher, Mourice Sanches, Josh Dibble, Forest Schmidt, just a few homies that really motivate me….

SR: What inspires you to shred?
DT: Everyone I see everyday pushing themselves and having fun and really taking advantage of that passion, cause there’s not much point in riding without the passion…

SR: Other interests besides snowboarding?
DT: Traveling to all sorts of places, hiking, hanging out with my girlfriend and family, camping, floating the owens river, pretty much anything outdoors…

SR: What are your friends back in Montana doing?
DT: Some have left Montana and the others are still shredding Big Mountain, and some are going to school….moving on doing their own thing….

SR: Do your parents want you get a real job or keep shredding?
DT: Well my family is pretty much my sis and my Mom and they have always been super supportive and helped me out alot along the way….I love them tons!

SR: Summer Plans?
DT: Mount Hood, maybe Camp of Champions, if I can get my pasport in time…lol…and eventually Snow Park in New Zealand…

SR: Plans for snowboarding - make a living or have fun?
DT: Well it will always be fun to me, but if I can make a living out of having fun than i’m all for it…

SR: Anyhthing else you want to say, fell free to sound off here
DT: God Bless everyone who helped me and supported me along the way, all my sponsors, family, Girlfriend, all my freinds, Snowboard Revolution, George Crosland for this interview, and always Jesus Christ!!

Thanks again george for everything!!

Danny sends it off the big jump at Mammoth, you know the one jump at Mammoth that when people go off of everyone on the chair and Gondola will turn around and look backwards at to watch

Nose press at June. Danny was a super nice and respectful dude, probably as a result of his upbringing in Montana

The big jump again. Danny does go to Church but his pastor (or preacher or whatever, sorry I don’t know) is Matt Hamer so it could very well be called the church of big air

Front board at June

Andrecht on the truck trailer in the main park at Mammoth. While shooting this interview and Josh Dibbles we managed to destroy two boards - Danny’s and Josh’s if that is an indication as to how hard these guy rode in two days

June Butter

Blunt on the big vert wall at Mammoth. this was a fun ass session, Molly Aguirre and other joined us at this point and they just lapped the park and I sat around and took photos. Well taking photos was not as fun as lapping the park but it was still fun

Rock to fakie

Rodeo at June

Front 9 tail grab of the big kickker at Mammoth. Danny is one of those guys you see in the park and wonder to yourself or out loud to your friends “who the heck is that guy”

“The Snowboard Revolution crew was in full force all weekend long” in their story about the Grenade Games

Thaks for the shout out an honor coming from them- cheers

http://www.snowboard-revolution.com/news/Grenade-Games-IV-2008%3A-Day-One.html

http://www.snowboard-revolution.com/news/Grenade-Games-IV-2008%3A-Day-Two%3A-420.html

Shaun Farmer and Bob Klien. They are in the band THC. Bob Klien is DK’s agent (or was at one time) also BK rode Squaw the first day it ever opened to snowboarding, along with Tina and Mike Basich, Mike Chantry, Don and Danielle Bostick and others. I tjhink BK was pro too. We all know who Farmer is…. or at least you should! I watched so many video footage of Farmer back in the day, Critical Condition “This is the greatest fucking rhyme of all time, drill a hole in your head - pour it into your mind” Shaun was also in First Decent - dude is epic!

Pat “the eye” Bridges does an Andrecht to fakie on the eye at the Grenade Games. He smoked a cigarette and chugged a Monster to get up to this. Bridges is the man… how many editors do you see killing it like this!

Lucas Magoon is not just a rail master, he can ride pipe pretty well too. Lucas was getting these sick ass front side tail taps but way beyond a tail tap cuz he was bending the SHIT out of his tail on em so he was fully balanced up there on the 420 red eye. Then he started busting these crazy tailtaps to fakie, which is what you see here. I am not even sure if there is a name for it - front tail block to fakie?

Luke Mitrani has a pretty nice matching color combo going from his head down to his toe straps not to mention this nice front five

The Grenade Games went down in June Lake this past weekend to celebrate green. Today we give you a brief re-cap of Saturday’s events which was pretty much slopestyle day. Basically Grenade rented out June Mountain for a party. Pretty much no rule was the rule. The price of admission was $30 for one day or $50 for two. Keep in mind the price of admission included all the riding you can handle for 7 hours and free entry into any event of your choice. A private party at June Lake with some of the world’s best snowboarders and other like minded individuals – I am in! Lot’s of beer, lots of trips to the woods for 420 action, lots of action on the hill, lots of fun, and lots of drinking in the bars.

The slopestyle course was basically the same course that June had set up towards the end of the season with some bigger jumps thrown in. There was supposed to be a slopestyle contest but I don’t think that ever went down. The Chinese eyed downhill was insane. Pretty much every had fun except those that got arrested on the way in. Thanks for the ultimate snowboard party Grenade

At breakfast in June Lake on Saturday 4/19 the locals were taking bets as to how many people would get busted on their way into town. Well, who knows how many but the cops sure hassled a lot of people. It was pretty much bullshit. There was not one fight or one serious injury. Guess cops have to feel like they did something – save the town from the hooligans – crap. Other than that the Grenade Games were all about fun

Welcome to June Mountain a sign said “we own it today” and everyday. Referring to the fact that Grenade rented out the whole resort

Pretty much don’t dress like this unless you are Chris Bradshaw. Somehow it is ok for him to do it but if you do it, you are retarded. By the way there were a lot of Chris Bradshaw, Lane Knack and Danny Kass wannabees running around

Amy from Billabong. In 1990 I drove up to Mammoth with Brian Botts. Brian ended up moving to Salt Lake, riding Snowbird, working at a candy apple stand, getting a cover on Blunt, managing the snow team at DC and now works at real estate in Park City. Amy married Brian, moved out to San Marcos and lived with Brian, her twin sister and Chris Engelsman. Then divorced Brian and know she is at the Grenade Games hanging out with Kevin Casillo. Do you care, probably not. Kevin Casillo and Dave Schiff seemed to be running the show at 420 day

Pretty much you can thank this man for the Grenade Games and a lot of other things. Danny Kass started Grenade, built it from scratch and continues to be a key figure in the company. This picture – just some random trick, shows why he rule so bad, the little tweak and style is what separates the pros from the huckers

Luke Thorington from Juneau Alaska which happens to be the same town that Mark Landvik is from. He told me all sorts of interesting things about snowboarding in Alaska. If you want, email me and I will share my secondhand knowledge with you

Luke Mitrani – is he still sponsored by Mountain Dew?

Danny again and again with that style you can’t match

Our favorite ripper – Lonnie Kauk

Mason Aguirre and friend double up

Chas Guldemond very much enjoyed the 420 snowboarding activities a day early, on 419 actually

This was freaking funny. Johnny Centi was follow caming Nick Russell when a MASSIVE gust of wind almost blew them over backwards. Seriously, check out Nick’s hat and goggles flying off his head. It was funny cuz they both rode away safe, super sketchy

Chas Guldy again

Louie Vito is like my stepson - love that kid

Can you really see too much of Danny. If you are gay for sure not. I happen to not be gay but I like photos of Danny

Lonnie’s Brother Plake Kauk on the red eye

Don’t know who this is but Andrew said it was a cool shot

Cornell on a propane tank

Dingo and Kevin Casillo about to start the Chinese eyed downhill

Dave Schiff and Dingo spewing words at each other

Go! The start of the Chinese eyed downhill which a race with simple rules – 1st down and to chug a Monster energy drinks wins. It was hectic

Vito and Casillo watching the action

This is the moment of truth and we have the photographic proof. The skier actually got down first but Thor crawled over him to go for the Monster

Here we see Thor with the winning chug, we also see Mason Aguirre (purple) and Lucas Magoon (brown) and others in the pile up