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The Washington coast is rad. We pretty much always have swell. Even when Cali is dead flat all summer there will be size up here. Usually…

Last Memorial Day weekend i headed out to the coast to meet up with these dudes. We bumped into a few of the guys at spot #1 and the first thing i did when i got out of the car was shoot my friend Travis in the face with one of my Airsoft guns (Im still awaiting clever retaliation for that one). Surf spot #1 was surprisingly fun for how small it was and given the size of my board and the fact that i forgot how to paddle. The water was crystal clear and the tide was probably the lowest i’ve ever seen it.

We stocked up on beer (more…)

Tuesday i woke up and checked my email on my iPhone (i have an iPhone). The little ding sound i set to notify me when i got a new message was going off. Over and over and over…

When all was said and done, i had like 150 new emails piped from my Gmail account to my iPhone.

They ended up all coming from YouTube. WTF? I just assumed i got some weird spam bull shiz. Which is partly true.

Backup 1 month: I started uploading a few vids to YouTube to take the traffic/bandwidth dent off my site and figuring it’d drive some new traffic here.

One of the videos i put up was of Harstad riding the dude-tube at Ski Acres (more…)

NEUMOS Friday 16th. Have been wanting to see these guys for awhile. Check it out, should be good.

I had the insane opportunity to go on a “work trip” for VholdR Cameras to the Sierras and do some snow camping with Snowboarder Mag and Leeward Cinemas during their shooting of “My Own Two Feet”, a full length feature snowboard film. It’s a Eco conscience film that doesn’t use snowmobiles, chairlifts or heli’s, hence the name ‘My Own Two Feet’. Check out their latest teaser at -http://leewardcinema.com/2feet/. We covered about 28mi in 6 days, all on foot, base camps were usually around a 10,000ft elevation.

Most of the 12 doods were on Splitboards and a few on snowshoes. Splitboards vs. snowshoes is

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This might be a bit premature but the Cap Hill Block Party this year will fall on July 25th & 26th - Fri/Satm. Thats over a couple months away but i bet it sells out. The last few years have seen capacity (maybe over) crowds due to the Block Partys increase in popularity. The headlining bands seem to be on the cusp of blowing up too, so that probably adds to the crowds.

If the crowds aren’t your thing, post up in the beer garden like these drunks:

A few of the bands that will be at the show that im pumped to see are Les Savvy Fav, Vampire Weekend, The Hold Steady, Akimbo, Chromeo and Devotcka (who i missed recently). There’s a ton more bands…pretty much a band overload. They end up having the shows inside Nuemos, The Comet, King Cobra and the outside mainstage. Check out the full line up and details at http://www.thestranger.com/blockparty

The tickets for this show run $18 bucks each day or $34 for both days. Super cheap for the amazing music that will be there. You can get tickets Tickets at Moe Bar, Rudy’s Barber Shops, QFC or ticketswest.com if you want to pay a huge service charge.

July 12th Helio Sequence, Iron and Wine, Low, Mudhoney, Pissed jeans, Seaweed

July 13th Beachwood Sparks, Comets on Fire, Grand Archives, Green River, Kinski, Red Red Meat, Wolf Parade also added the Vaselines ERICS TRIP and possible The Shins.

Just got my two day pass for 50 bucks. Go to Sub Pop . com

Pretty much an unreal lineup in my opinion. Erics trip, Green River and Red Red Meat have all been defunct for many many years. Also saw the Seaweed reunion in there hometown of Tacoma for two shows in December and they still got it. This show will be super good. Also a fair price for a festival these days. Two day ticket was the same price as the Nick Cave and the Badseeds ticket I just got. Damn. Go out and get yourself some. Posse up!

Skiing has gotten more popular over the last 12 years. This translates to more people on the hill, bigger lift lines, more traffic, longer waits, etc. Those of us who ride Alpental have seen this happen first hand over the last few years. I’ve only been riding since 96/97 and i’ve seen the lines grow in that time. Most of the people i ride with have been around for way longer and could second this.

The Summit at Snoqualmie submitted a Master Development Plan (MDP) to the US Forest Service (USFS) in Dec 2005. The Alpental part of that plan has a few improvements that aim to improve skier circulation.

A ski area’s capacity is largely dictated by it’s (more…)

Gillis, JR and Wagner went log jibbing the other day. Get your mind out of the gutter, what i mean is they were jibbing a tree log with their snowboards. At Alpental.

At the run out of Trash Can there’s a large tree that mother nature decided would be a perfect jib for snowboarders. So she knocked it over and wedged it between two other trees. Good lookin out!

There were some pretty rad manuvers thrown down. 50-50 to front 3 out, Method/Sombrero removal combo, 15 foot-to-flat StompPad tea-baggers and of course some epic wrecks. On the gnarliness scale i’d give this maybe a 4.5. I mean it’s no 50footer or anything…but there was definetly some branches, twigs and other trees to get wrapped around if you botched it.

I wonder if they could get arrested for tearing apart a tree that was once old growth on USFS land? That would be funny.

Here’s a shot of Gillis.

Josh Becker took a bunch of pics. Ki took a bunch of pics.