early season utah

Ash Christensen gettin some powder action on the 151 cm florida powderskate. Photos by Jake Lawlor

ungi bungi supply relief is in

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Travis and Tara have some powder fun in Japan. Check the above link.

powderskate tahoe shots

We were up in tahoe at the Ralston cup last weekend and saved a few extra days for some shredding. Mark, Jeff, Graham and I got a few turns around Donner Pass. Bluebird powder.

Thanks Graham for helping find my phone which flew out of my pocket on a bail. powder time seems to have given the phone a mind of it's own. It has been waking me up and surprising me with random messages noises and flashing lights.

My First Powderskate Ride

It's the other half checking in today, we just got back from our Tahoe trip and had a super fun time. I took my first powderskate ride and it was a total trip; I'm not even sure how to explain the feeling. I do snowboard but haven't been on one in 3 years. The reason: our son was born in July 07 and I just really haven't had the chance, we don't live near our families, so when we go on trips, it's usually Adam out there trying to get the stoke on and I'm back manning the room with our son. Now that our son is getting a little older, he's able to come hang out on the mountain. So i took advantage this trip, and we took a little day trip over to Donner Pass, and found a little hill to hike up. I stepped on the powderskate and came flying down, although I'm sure it looks like I'm crawling, but the ride was totally awesome and exhilarating. So as you can imagine, i live and breathe powderskates and have heard all this hoopla about how awesome it is, but until you actually try it, you just don't know the feeling. So my lesson, that I will pass on to you all is this: Only a Powderskater knows the feeling! So get yourself out there and try it, as for me i can't wait for our next trip, maybe I'll even try to bust out a few slashes.

Utah

Ash Christensen has been helping us out in Utah when the powder stays around. Here are a few shots of some powderskate aerial testing. Good work Ash.