Jan 26th '09 : Nick Brown NZsnowboard.com Problog
26th January 2009
Name: Nick Brown
Sponsors: RPM, Burton, Anon, Export Gold
I flew into Salt Lake City on boxing day, sorted out my truck and sled after leaving it there for the summer, way more trouble than it should be. Rode Snowbird for a day and then bailed with Hyna to South Lake Tahoe for New Years. Rode Sierra New Years day - it was mean! There were three parks, one with just three jumps and a short chair so you can do a million runs a day, then the main park I guess, which is long and has lots of jumps boxes and rails and a bit of a free run carve it up as well, and then the baby park which has a short lift and was actually real fun. Props to JP.
The weather was looking bad so we decided the only option was to drive to San Fran for a couple of days. Hyner was keen to check out famous skate spots and he dragged me along. The mellow 3 1/2 hour drive turned into 7 hours with everyone trying to escape the shitty weather and it being the end of the Xmas/NY's holiday plus the 6 inches of snow on the road.
San Fran's a pretty cool city, we checked some sites and Hyner got shown up by some girl skater's that looked like they were 15. Back to Reno. Some good weather saw us riding Northstar for the last few days, not a bunch of snow there yet but a super fun long park run, great to get the feet back after the last few months away from the board, gota love the warm winter park riding..
Hyner and I off to Tahoe
Switch Frontboard up the Pyramid box at Northstar
Traffic to San Fran from Tahoe - Sweet sunset
Hyner, me and a Bridge - San Fransisco, USA
After San Fran we went back to South Lake Tahoe for a couple of days and met up with Spencer Falls. We rode Sierra which was fustrating, hard and windy. That night JP organised for a takeoff and landing to be built so we could wallride one of the lift shacks which was perched up off the ground a bit. It ended up working real well and we had a good session. We hit it with a few of the crew from 'First Tracks Productions', a local tahoe film company. Cheers again JP.
Spencer and I lapping at Sierra at Tahoe
Northstar chairlift with Hyner
'Got like 2 feet of air thta time'
After riding northstar plenty we decided to go check out Squaw Valley, Charles Beckinsale a friend from OZ builds the park there and showed us round with another dingo, Benny. The park was fun the sun was out and the snow was soft, good for jumping, another mean day except Charles dislocated his shoulder at the end which sucked.
Charles with a dislocated shoulder, me being useless and Benny handing out hugs
On Hyner's last day before flying to jap on another sunny day we checked out Kingvail, just over Donner pass from Tahoe. It's just a little rail park with a rope tow, pretty fun and laid back.
Kingvale = FUN!
Double Nosepress lookback at Kingvale, CA, USA
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