Beer+snowboards+sleds=ratbaggers!!

[Shadam]

when entering a bowl for only the 2nd time this season(2nd time ever???) ...

the safest way would be to launch into it rite ???



and it was good !!!



hmmm ???



some of us choose to let clutches and belt cool down ... others did not ...





this was the pull of the weekend to get here ...

 

[BCAV]

I feel that it was a very good educational experience for me i felt pretty safe like shadam mentioned we had safe spots to sit and we both knew wat was a bout to go down

 

[Shadam]

dude! its getting tracked out ... its starting to look like quartz creek ... wait a minute ... neither of us have even bee there this season ...

 

[Shadam]

see the big long pull ??? that was the 9 year old sled with 10,700MILES ...

I'm hoping Jeff makes it out here again with his turbo pro so someone can actually out climb me ...

(and I can ride it again!!!)



just another boring bowl near Golden ... nothing to see here ... move along !!!

we call it Tombstone ... irony much ???



I used to say (back in my ski/snowboard days)that life begins when you launch off a cornice ...

but its sooooooo much more fun on a sled !!!



hex bowl is soooo much more fun !!!




back to Big White, and the trail home ...




yes Tombstone is quite the mission to get to. we've only hit it twice this season, not at all last season, only dreamed, coz no one with a sled and a set of b@lls to ride with ...

 

[Shadam]

As the day winds down I always make sure everyone makes all the pulls to get out of each bowl/feature as we head back to the trucks. then make sure everyone is out of the upper meadows. but I make it clear I haven't finished getting stuck in creeks yet ...



often its my first stuck of the day ...

busted up the rest of the hood that wasn't already cracked up,
bent the brake lever on another tree earlier in the day,
bent the left handle bar down when I dropped a 25footer and punched myself in the throat all in the same motion ...
its all good, I stayed on and the sled was fine. the right side of the bar has been bent up since I got it off my parts sled so wot-ev ...

seasons nearly over and the old girl is cracking so life is great !!!

 

[Shadam]

like a true hurtin albertain ...



yes yes ... we all see you ...



great snow on april 20th ...



Rodgers and I don't snowboard much any more, so it takes some great snow and cool features to make us strap a board on ...

 

[Shadam]

this was a new bowl to us ... new to sleds ???

so maybe I should taken a more conservative entrance eh?



getting out was sporty to say the least ...

from the moment I dropped in to getting back to familure terrain I was teeth clenched and nervous about this bowl as everything was far more complex than it looked ...

 

[Shadam]

you know how it is ...

the sun is out, conditions are perfect, buddy hasn't got his camera out but your "in the zone" so you send it anyway ...

 

[Shadam]

this pretty much sums up why I moved from fernie to golden ...

 

[Bnorth]

like a true hurtin albertain ...

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I feel like a failure as a man, I never realized the mountain strap holds a beer so well! Love the box of ol' milawesome on the tunnel too.

 

[Shadam]

so I entered tombstone for only the 3rd time this season thru a rather "sporty" lane ...

and thought I should probe the depth ... 170ish



some are more relaxed than others ...



that draw/gully is quite the challange on a big long heavy sled like mine ...

yes I've been butt fark stuck in it more than a few times ... but how else is it going to get punched in ...



high risk low reward some say ???
please stay at revy and out of our terrain coz we don't want to babysit ...



no, this isn't for the faint of heart ...



and then all the risk becomes reward !!!



you wouldn't like it anyway ...



the ridge rides just aren't worth it ...

 

[Chump]

Wicked pics!! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Shadam]

april 26th ... or feb ???



best dust off your quad or dirt bike eh?



powder is all gone ...
but hey, them swamps are frozen and probably colder than the snow in the alpine ...

 

[Shadam]

my sled is orsum ...



somtimes we over estimate alpine wind drifts ...





niether my of us saw this creek ... lame ...



I can blame wotever I like ... but this was all me ... sled was not happy ...

 

[Jordan1924]

Awesome pics! Looks like you've had a hell of a season!

 

[Shadam]

my season aint over yet ... I'm planning to ride may june july ...

if Rodgers would wake up we'd go back and hit this again ...

April blizzard yesterday !!!



this is probably the stuck of the year ...



he had been digging for a while before this shot was taken ...

this pic just doesn't do it justice ...

one gentley riden freeride for sale ... only used for snowboarding ...

or ... only used to "carry" snowboard ...

 

[DooBoarder]

May, June, July... That's awesome!!

 

[Shadam]

soooooo ... its p!ssin rain here and I ass-u-me its snowing up top ...

wet manky snow anyone ???

Rodgers thinks he's playing golf on sunday ...

in the rain ???

oh well, randum pic's of my sled in really cool places ...

and really sh!ty stucks is all I will have to offer if no one mans up ...

 

[Shadam]

it seems I'm only a weekend warior now days ...

crazy man looking for like minded crazies to drink beer and get stupid stuck ...

lilduke ???

if it don't sell ... come drink n brap ...

 

[Jordan1924]

I think there is a couple of us riding maybe Sunday and Monday if u are interested...