45 degrees (the angle, not the temp) on N. Sister!

Went up on N. Sister - E. Face / NE Ridge with Seth today. Lots of good turns from about 8900' on down to the snow line, then a long hike out. Good stuff!

June Riding - still going!!!

October to June - Two Cone perspectives

This was from my first day of the season - Good Cone laps were had on October 4th, 2007

After so many great days, the end of Mt. Bachelor's 'season' came and went, and then I ventured up today, June 7, 2008, and the Cone STILL has great snow - the choice tracks on the right were Brooks and I hitting up some nice new pow on top of corny snow! Looks like snow season might be back in this coming week.

There's still more snow than they have had on several openings in November, and I can still remember riding laps on Summit chair in June, back in the old days when I first moved to Bend.

Now it's a ghost town:

Here's a couple more for ya...

Borat thanks Bend "Very Much" for their niiice snowboarding!

Local Girls have very nice figures! all the rest on their way to flickr here http://www.flickr.com/photos/shredvids/?saved=1 wah-woo-wee - here is interlink to local news on Bachelor Pond Skimming (5/18) http://www.ktvz.com/global/video/popup/pop_playerLaunch.asp?vt1=v&clipFormat=&clipId1=2500183&at1=Sport&h1=Sunday ....and another link from the newspaper! http://video.ap.org/v/default.aspx?f=orben&g=1700cb29-a4d6-49cf-ab5f-709d111b2449&mk=en-ap&fg=svip_copy

WOW - April was another month of "Real Winter"!

...and it just keeps coming! Check out this forecast for tonite (almost the end of April!)

Here's some footage of a couple of friends riding the goods on Northwest Chair last week - You might recognize the one guy - apparently he's a famous surfer, author, and Patagonia ambassador - A nice guy, and a hell of a hiker. At 60 years old, he lead us to some of the best lines of fresh pow of the season.

Escape from Atlantis, Bahamas!

Great fun in the Bahamas...

but after this, I had to go.

Back to Jackson

A shredvid from last month's Jackson / Teton Pass magic: