Back again

Back to the blog for a minute. Was at Marley's this weekend for the ramp opening and it was a good time despite the rain and crappy weather, can't wait to get back.  Anyways the real reason I posted was to put this up, so good.  Andrew if you're watching (and I know you are) watch this shit and learn some trampoline street moves.



Erik Elstran Goes to Berlin from Sunday Bikes on Vimeo.

Supa Quick

Found some footage of last year's Boondocks Halloween Jam and threw this together, good times.  Stay cool!

Boondocks Helloween Jam 2012 from craig on Vimeo.

Blogs are a PITA sometimes

Gotta write shit and shit (and sometimes I even need to think of what I'm gonna write), so I've been taking the easy way out and just posting pictures and videos to Instagram (clubhousebmx).  So follow that shit...and shit.  Speaking of Instagram, it looks like the Circuit Trails Trip is going awesome judging from the #trailsruletrip hashtag, wish I was there!

Its been friggin' hot out lately and I know I can't handle digging for more than an hour or so between the heat, mosquitos and worst of all, deer flies.  Managed to make a quick edit of a 95 degree XC ride on the Pitch the other day.


A quick XC ride on a 95 degree day from craig on Vimeo.

Its only early July and just gonna get hotter for a while so I figured why not edit the snowboarding GoPro footage I have?  Some pretty epic snowboard days in the last couple years.


Snowboard Footage from craig on Vimeo.

Real life is fun

Been too busy living to update this here blog, but I did make a video of some Highland footage, good shit but still need to put a GoPro mount on the BMX helmet so I can get some trails footage.

Back to digging

Trails are starting to look better but still a lot of work to be done, this winter was rougher on them than last winter thats for sure.  Also have the XC going a little better, the CH is turning into a bike mecca maybe I should make a cyclodrome down there next.

But even though the weather is nice and snow is probably the last thing on your mind right now, watch this video.  Dude ripping it as his local resort in a pretty unique way.

MayDays

Are awesome, places are great for riding right now and you can even snowboard if you really want to (and want to work for it).  Me and Smitty decided it would be a good idea to take a few days off for the Highland season opener and as it happened the weather was perfect the whole time.  Dusty days of riding the lift and nights of drinking and hiking for night runs, and even some hiking for snowboarding were how the week went.

Basically I'm psyched Highland is open again for the season!

Only bike related pic of the week

 

The season that just won't end

Lots of snow early, a huge thaw middle, and a shit ton of snow late has kept this ski and snowboard season going into May.  And with snow I just couldn't let another year go by without making it up Mt. Washington and into Tuckerman Ravine.  The hike was long but it was a big party in the bowl and what an awe inspiring place it is.  Pictures do it absolutley no justice but I'll try to let them do the talking.

Time to celebrate back at Highland!

And end the weekend off with a pumptrack porcupine sighting.

Edit:  Just saw this holy shit must watch.



I can edit now!

I finally got a new computer and can edit videos again woohoo!  So to celebrate I put this quick thing together for winter storm Nemo, I'll be slowly going through my old footage and putting together edits, as well as getting new footage.  But anyways here is the Nemo edit, great weekend that started with bikes in the snow, had a storm day at Cannon with 12"+, and returned to Highland for a bluebird sunday.





Smitty, Bubba, Keith and myself hit up Wachusett Saturday for the day before the season ends.  Its always a good time to dig in the morning and snowboard in the afternoon.

Moonshine at the trails keeps us warm before the weather really gets warm.

And if you like trails or videos with them you should probably watch these.

Graveyard Trail Jam 2013 from Davis Finn James on Vimeo.

Spring is just about here

Been a pretty sweet winter snow wise if you're into that kind of thing, which I am.  Still snow to be had and hope to get in a couple more days.


Ritalin: Late 2013 in Jackson Hole from Tim Swartz on Vimeo.

Also pretty psyched to dig and ride again though. This is a good article about trails even though its about MTB trails its pretty much the same for BMX.

No good trails videos yet though so this will have to do.

Sprinter

Spring + Winter = Sprinter and that seems like the season we're in right now.  Two feet of snow one day, then mid 50's the next, and then rain after that, and maybe back to snow next week?  Its a good thing its not trails season because its freakin soggy out there right now.  I love winter and have had a great one, but this video makes makes me wish it was trails time already.



Also most things in this are insane.  No hand double fronty?

Colin McRae

Yea.

Whitefish 2.0

There are a lot of flat squares and circles on the way to Denver

Found the New Belgium Hub in Denver

Back to Whitefish, Montana to do some snowboarding and hang out with the cousin, unfortunatley he was/is experiencing some health issues and couldn't join me skiing, but huge thanks goes out to Mike and Maggie for being amazing hosts and letting me stay in their amazing house.  And get well soon Mike!

Le Roi!

Anyways, the day I got into Whitefish it had snowed 9" with a few more the day before, unfortunately it was 9 PM and I couldn't get out in the storm.  The good news is in Whitefish you can still find untouched pow days after a storm, not to mentioned it snowed the entire day Sunday as well, and Monday.

Common sight during the week, mountain in the clouds. Also check the bank to sidewalk jump.

Had some amazing inbounds runs Sunday then decided to hike to the sidecountry for some untouched runs in the afternoon with a couple of my cousin's friends.

Best run of my life, chest deep in spots with snow going straight over my head the whole time, I was living in the white room.  Unfortunatley I forgot the GoPro at home the first day.

Monday was more sick conditions with more hiking to the sidecountry in the afternoon, this time my cousin's friend Casey showed me up Hellroaring Peek.  There was a bootpack most of the way but the wind had filled it in at the top and we postholed through waist deep snow for the last 100 ft up.

"Only" wait deep this time (still plenty of faceshots!) but the whole peak was totally untouched, we were the only ones around. I got it on the GoPro but after moving 10 feet in the fog you can't see shit, oh well!  It was interesting talking to Casey also, he learned to ski at Highland back when it was a ski area.

Monday night was the Wailers show (minus Bob Marley, well there is only 1 original member I guess) but it was a really good show, minus some chick music bloggers that thought they were super important.

The other days were sweet too, some sun down in the valley, no visibility but plenty of snow on the mountain, and no shortage of Montana and west coast micro brews to sample.

Awesome trip minus my cousin not being able to ski, can't wait to do it again.  Pysched I come home to good conditions still too.  I'm getting a new computer and can edit some gopro footage soon.  Here is one semi shitty short one.





You should definatley watch this too because its fucking rediculous.