Photo Blog

This is Mark Reilly, in the eastern sierra’s near the Sawtooth Mountains. We had a huge crew this day and I didnt have any shots up until this 30 min frame at the end of the day. I was very happy with the handplant photo. Snowboard used it last year as a full page in the gallery.

Snowboard Magazine; the crew and working on powder days. For the Snowboard Magazine and Snowboard Revolution Crew working on a powder day means working in the powder. Mission six, Airblaster, Snowboard Magazine and Snowboard Revolution mixing brands, mixing media and bringing people together for one thing, powder and raw terrain. Kicking Horse B.C. has some of the most intense terrain in the world. Pillow ollies at every turn, steep bottomless tree lines and chutes clearly visible from the hotel room.
Kicking Horse B.C. started off with a trip to Justin Baun’s house. He grew up in the house and has ridden Kicking Horse all of his life. While their, he gave me the grand tour, a bunch of killer roommates, a sweet chilling garage and footage that will blow any riders mind. Up on the hill the snow totals were reaching two and a half feet on top and we had no clue what we were in for. The reactions of every riders first run was filled with ear to ear smiles and out of control breathing patterns. It was on.
Kicking Horse began with a gondola to the top of their empty powder filled mountain, intense to say the least. The weather was strong and kept our gondola vision to the minimum, just enough to see the M6 paratrooper safely land on a mountain range large enough for a human. The visibility was low and the terrain was raw. The guide Justin Baun and Colin Macher knew their way around. Justin grew up in Kicking Horse and has a lot of experience on his home mountain. I have to say that the two runs I followed him down I saw some of the most inventive and creative riding I have ever seen. This kid painted the mountain with lofting airs into the trees followed by huge engulfing pow slashes. Click Here to watch a video of Justin Baun doing a sick pow ollie.
Back to work, two runs that had buried your legs the entire line but it’s time to see how it happens. Jeff Baker from Snowboard Magazine brings out his camera gear and Justin Baun continues to ride the way he does. Strap in; head on to the first lower powder tree zone. Pow ollies and slahes everywhere but stop, there is one straight ahead. Stop set up, and drop, poof and another poof. That is the sound of powder clouds that engulf Justin as he disappears through the woods. Everyone had a job to do and their was no better time or place to be doing it than yesterday on the raw terrain of Kicking Horse B.C.
The entire crew was 13 people and they were Johnny Centi (man down), Justin Baun (local Knowledge), Jeff Baker (Snowboard Magazine), Pete Scheira (Wave Rave Snowboard Shop), Lucky Lopez (Snowboard Magazine), Trevor Stewart (Snowboard Revolution), Jeff Curley (Snowboard revolution), Aaron Hanlon (M6), Lucky Lopez (Snowboard Magazine), Nate deschenes (Snowboard Magazine), Mike Mikovich (Straight Ripper), Colin Macher (local Knowledge) Riley and Jesse (Airblaster). Everyone had some sort of job to do on this amazing terrain and everyone got it done. Thanks to Mike for the tickets, Justin for the local knowledge, and everyone in Canada for the positive attitudes and good raw terrain. Thanks kicking Horse for the epic powder and no lift lines.

This might not look like a lot of snow, but up on the resort it was deep. It was our last couple days in France and we got an insane pow day right on our way out of this little town. The night lights of LaClusaz. There’s not a lot going on in this town, but the mountain’s here and close by are crazy. Nothing is patrolled on the resort, so your on your own if you want to go hike a line. It can be really sketchy. Those mountains are huge and so steep. LaClusaz is primitive, old school france. Most of the people that live there were born and raised there and so is every family member known to date. There anciestry, as far back as they can trace is from LaClusaz. So there is a lot of old culture and family’s. This was the biggest step-up I have ever seen. It was ridiculous. A lot of people got played on it. This kid was doing backside rodeo’s though and the skiers were killing it. The mountain had a huge rail jam night deal and built this road gap over this bus. Tight little venue. Big party after. Those Frenchy’s love there booze and spliffs.

Mammoth Mountains Unbound Park Crew built a jump that was unique in design and structure. It was a channel gap, gap jump. That means that there is a gap in between the take off and landing and a gap between the left side and right side of the jump.
Mammoth is one mountain that has the man power, machinery and motivation to build such a jump. They built this with one thing in mind, Private Session. Mammoth closes levels of the mountain early with plenty of snow to be ridden so they open these sections of the mountain for Private jump sessions with films crews like Mack Dawg. On this day they had a sick crew.
Tara Dakides, Danny Kass, Gabe Taylor, Cody Rosenthal, Mike Tobia, Bobby George, Sketchy D, Giacomo Kratter, Lucas Magoon, Bobby George, Brian Regis, Wyatt Caldwell and Jeff Curley made up the crew that ruled this Private Session.
This crew threw down tough. Tricks were thrown down by each and every rider in the session. The pictures from this session have been seen all over the snowboarding scene in magazines such as Snowboard Magazine and for such a unique feature they deserve the credit. The lifts were closed so the crews were using snowmobiles as their lift access. Each rider doubled a crew of riders up the hill. Some riders even took crews up to hit the kicker.
Mammoth is known for its private spring sessions so if you are in California during the months of April or May head over to Mammoth and sneak in for a sneak peak on a private session. Mammoths chair 4 park is the usual location for these private snowboarding sessions. Check out some of the worlds best snowboarders come together to ride just for fun. No money, no contest, no pressure, just fun, just a Session. A Mammoth Mountain private snowboard Session.