I ran into the cast and crew on the day they were filming at Convict Lake.

They were about a mile from the parking lot, and looked lost and completely out of place (including the sheriff in his...

I just received an email stating no passcode required

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http://primusville.com/#tour

Awesome, thanks! All of those look great.

We just took the training wheels off my sons bike, and now that's all he wants to do.

Does anyone have recommendations for mellow dirt tracks/pump tracks in the greater Denver area?

He's 5,...

Haven't spent much time on snow since moving to CO. Been trying to make up for that on concrete, however.


https://youtu.be/jnn0HtHjWGc


I know 2:42 is kinda long, but hang in there for the...

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Book signing and slideshow at Tahoe Mountain Sports. Sunday, February 15th at 5pm.

Be there!

We'll be signing books, and doing a little presentation...... talking about skiing and...

Hey Tahoe,
We're doing a slideshow/book signing next weekend. Sunday the 15th at Tahoe Mountain Sports. Still working out the details on our presentation, but probably talking about the book a...

We're having a book signing and general stoke party tomorrow night.

December 13th
Mammoth Mountaineering Supply
7pm

Be there.

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The books are currently being shipped to bookstores/retailers. So if you don't have one already, you should be able to find it locally.

We'll be having a book signing/release party at Mammoth...

Thanks adimmen. That's good news.

Unfortunately, there's bad news today. Dave Pegg, the owner of Wolverine Publishing, has passed away. I'm still sorting out the details on things at the moment....

Thanks for the love, everyone.

Sorry I've been lagging on a response. Don't get much computer time these days, with a toddler at home.

But the shipment of books has arrived at the publisher,...

UPDATE:

I got an advance copy yesterday. It looks pretty good, if I do say so myself. We're still a few weeks away from having it available, but it's one step closer!

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Have you...

Yeah, that's the one next to Mono Lake.
It's not sand. Far from it. But that's why we ride snowboards, you know?

cat,
we stopped at Bridgeport for a few reasons. One is that it's kinda the unofficial end to to the East Side and/or High Sierra. Though, yeah, that depends on who you ask. I would have loved to...

It has been five years since the first edition of "Backcountry Skiing California's Eastern Sierra" came out, and I imagine you've all skied everything in that book by now. So, if you've been waiting...

Kinda depends on what you're looking for. If you're content just keeping to yourselves, then it won't be bad. Views are nice, that's for sure. But if you're looking for any sort of socialization,...

Another vote for Square.
I do a lot of art shows in the summer, and right now I'd say 50% of the artists use it. No complaints so far. And the only reason it's only 50% is because a lot of people...

I can almost guarantee that letter has circulated around to all of Valle Nevado's employees by now. And chances are, it's being forwarded to their friends at other resorts.

So, you are not just a...

Huh?

This has nothing to do with rights or the police overstepping their bounds. It has to do with the fact that the guy has a personality disorder. It doesn't take a psychologist to figure out...

Ween, in 95 or so at one of those summer music festivals. Little did we know, they added a bunch of bands to the lineup, so the festival started a few hours earlier than we thought. Just as we were...

Look at his face...... he's not even trying! That's just another day at the office.

I lost my job recently, so I've been a little too busy to post updates. But here are some photos from the last few weeks. Conditions have been excellent, and will go back to being excellent once this...

I got two days at Onion Valley this weekend. No photos, since the southern sierra is pretty ugly right now. But there is some skiing to be had at the moment.

The main gulley on Independence Peak...

We couldn't quite see Gilbert. Point Powell is one mini-drainage over from there.

But all winter I have been encountering small sections of last year's ice that is already exposed. Mainly due to...

Another:

http://www.framedestination.com/

They don't have too many varieties of moulding. But if you're looking for something simple, they do custom sizes, and you can order just an empty frame...

Went up Point Powell yesterday. The coverage looks decent at the higher elevations. But getting there is brutal.

The Sabrina road is still gated at Aspendell, but is almost completely snow-free...

Lots of settling and cracking today. Hopefully another 24 hours helps that, but today was one of the very few days in the Sierra where I've backed off a 25 degree slope.

The upper north faces of...

Anyone that has been skiing for more than a year or two is going to roll their eyes at any mention of “first descent”.

The only people that actually care about that kind of stuff are the clueless...

It could also be a collection agency pulling sneaky shit. They're trying to track him down, and they found a connection between you and him in the past. So they called you, simply because they're...

A couple inches of snow in Bishop this morning. We don't see that very often.

The wind forecast for Tuesday night looks bad, so get it while you can.

The full-time snowline was around 8500-9000. It snowed a little below that, but started out as heavy rain.

Probably about 3 feet of cement up high, with some soft stuff on top. It's still really...

Cats are just naturally skittish and defensive. Especially if they are homeless.

My neighbors cat has been hanging out in my yard regularly for about two years now. Half the time he comes right up...

NRA4EVA




Finish this sentence:

"You don't make friends with __________________!"

This thread title has a few too many zeros.





The north side of Conness could be good. This is what it looked like in October:...

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We got some beta that Middle Palisade was filled in about a week ago. There had been a little wind since then, but we decided to head out there to check it out.

This thing doesn't hold much snow...

I forgot something in my previous post:

Boardercross. The damn skiers stole that one too!!!


Seriously, though. The number one problem we have to face today is dealing with people who don't...

The hardest thing facing snowboarding today is finding ways to continually keep things “fresh” in order to differentiate ourselves from the skiers.

They just keep copying us!

The entire ski...

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This is tonight. You will go, and you will have a good time.

I'll be there showing photos and telling stories about skiing in the Sierra.

It's free. Saturday night at the Olympic Plaza Bar at Squaw. Sponsored by Mike Schwartz/The Backcountry. More info...

"Check it out. Randole* boots! Those are kinda hard to find"

Translation:
*"Randole" is a cross between randonee and andale (remeber Speedy Gonzales?).

Fuck, man. I remember those days.



When the snow on the roof finally falls down, hits the side of the house, breaks a window, and puts a crack in the wall. That's when it's too much!.

The...

Couple inches of snow in Bishop this morning. Did I mention that it NEVER, EVER snows in Bishop?

So the freezing level is below 4000 feet, which means no more cement. Today is the day for the...

I'm not in Mammoth, but I've seen the pictures and heard the stories. This one isn't being exaggerated by the marketing department.

On Thursday, you will look back at this thread and think “I...

That doesn't make you a gaper. It just makes you a fuckin douchebag, Joey. There's a pretty big difference.

plastic shovels

Awesome!



If mom was feral/stray, then that cat is gonna kill more critters than you knew existed. She's gonna solve problems you didn't even know you had!

And, if you pay attention, she...

That's trouble.
I don't think my computer will allow me to post in a thread that calls it the “Sierra'S”.

Was just reading about that on the Mammoth forum. Here's the list of perks:
http://forums.mammothmountain.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=8440

It's weird, that's for sure. Mammoth has always reeeally...

It's like summer, only colder.