A Surfer Dad's Proudest Moment

Here's a video of my son, gettting pushed into his first wave at my old "home break" of Scotsman's Cove, in So. Cal. There was an incredible run of surf last week, and although I only got a few waves during my recent trip, this day will live in my memory forever... Surfer Magazine has more detail on the recent string of great So. Cal South Swell here: more great photos on the surf can be found here...

REAL ski resorts re-open in June...

Here's to Willamette Pass, which re-opened last weekend, for some late-season turns. We hit it up Saturday from 9-2:30, and it was pretty fun! Imagine Mt. Bachelor making a decision like this.....

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.