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Technically we’ve surpassed the official Winter season and have entered into Spring. Usually by late March we get hit with some epic warm sunny days perfect for slushy park sessions. Pretty much all last week it dumped up in the mountains–cold and snowy. It even dumped on Capitol Hill on Tuesday night (hipsters be trippin!).

The weekend opened with 12″ of new at Alpental on Saturday. Complete with an uphill skier race snaking the mountain from bottom to top back down Nash, through Snake Dance and back up to Piss Pass. All through thigh deep pow too. Pretty hardcore. Somehow i avoided colliding with one of these doods who were hiking right up the Fan.

The race resulted in the closure of Snake Dance almost all day, and the closure of the backcountry all day. Here we were, end of the season, not riding slushy park but riding thigh deep pow at Alpental (the best riding in Washington State) yet we couldn’t go in the BC but all these other manic ski doods could?! F that. F you.

Sunday was just as crowded with 9 more inches of even colder snow. Ride more pow? Sure why not. It seemed weird though…like something was off to be riding this much pow this time of year. The A-man made a rare Sunday appearance, Clem was nowhere to be found, Petersen rode two days in a row, Otter/Kopafeel both stayed home and i didn’t duck a rope once.

Ski Patrol finally legally opened BC around 1. They decided it would be a great idea to start posting a volunteer patroller at the gate. They actually asked to see my pass. Which i actually did have on my person. So i actually was able to get in while everyone else just went low around the patroller and got in anyways.

Needless to say, everything worked out. Everyone got tons of turns, snowballs were thrown, skiers were heckled, beer was drank and face shot were had.

Here are a few pics from last weekend.

Here’s a video of the sequence pic above. S.Petersen is filmer.

The A-man dropped a bomb post on his site recapping the weekend. Check it.

A friend of mine had tickets to the Vampire Weekend show @ Neumos 3/26/08 but was ‘too tired’ to go to the sold out show. Lucky me! I promptly swooped up the tickets and headed to the Hill where a late March blizzard was waiting for me. Weird.

After getting ready for the show at Mo bar with the assistance of a few PBR’s, McKenney and i headed into Neumos. Holy crap the place was packed! Neumos is a bit lame when it’s that packed. But then again most places are.

Vampire Weekend went on pretty much on schedule @ 10:45 which was nice (being a school night and all). They were all wearing some form of a button-up, collared shirt like a bunch of goofy frat kids. Really goofy. (more…)

The Oahu trip was so fun. I’ve never been to the Northshore before so it was all new to me. Most of the people on the trip (12 dudes) had been there before and/or grew up there so we pretty much had the place on lock.

The one thing that wasn’t on lock though was surfing. Holy shit was that a humbling experience… I don’t think any of us were expecting to get barreled or anything but goddamn surfing on the Northshore is effing gnarly!

I paddled out at Pipe and realized i made a big mistake when i saw a bunch of pro’s that have houses about 100 ft away on the beach. But it wasn’t till i noticed the craggy, shallow rock reef that looked like something out of a Tim Burton movie that the mistake i’d made became completely apparent. The waves were something like 4-6ft Hawaiian which is like head and a half plus to us Warshington surfers. The wave size, shape, speed and the crazy-ass shallow reef all pretty much freaked the hell outta me.

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Well boys and girls, it’s been an amazing winter so far. Tons of pow and epic days in the mountains. So good that surfing has been nowhere on my radar.

I did manage to go surfing a few weeks ago and noticed that i’ve pretty much lost all upper body (more…)