Montana’s Bridger Bowl Resort is only running two lifts today after patroller set avalanches yesterday caused some of the biggest wet slab slides seen in years, according to a story on KTVQ.com.
“Avalanche cycles like this one are rare. It was only the second time in my 22 years of avalanche work that I’ve seen wet slab activity on this scale. Yesterday, the ski patrol triggered avalanches with explosives that gouged out groomed runs and road cuts plus put debris up to 20 foot deep in the gullies. New snow yesterday morning, above freezing temperatures, and a moist snowpack sitting on facets had stability teetering. Avalanches broke on soggy depth hoar at the ground. By midday explosives weren’t needed and the patrol ski triggered wet loose slides that would step down to the facets,” Chabot says in the report.
Nice of them to get that all done before they open the lifts back up.
In this Ride Channel In Focus, Thrasher Magazine’s Michael Burnett kicks down just about everything anyone needs to know to shoot great skateboarding photos. The obvious problem for most beginners is remembering all this before pressing the shutter release. Follow the jump for Part 2. [click to continue…]
Jeff Tremaine and Dickhouse productions is at it again, this time with Tyler the Creator and Odd Future. Their new show is on Adult Swim and it’s called Loiter Squad. Yes, it’s so funny you’ll spit soup through your nose.
Can’t stop laughing at this Brad ParkerSbyke video? Then follow the jump for a peek at where the greatest motocross racer of all time ended up. . . [click to continue…]
Larry Stevenson (center) with his son Curtis, Dale Smith and the crew.
We’re sad to report that Skateboarding Hall of Fame member Larry Stevenson, the founder of Makaha Skateboards (and inventor of the kicktail) died yesterday March 25, 2012 after a long illness. He was 81 years old.
Larry put together the first skateboard exhibition team in 1963 with …Bruce Logan, Woody Woodward, Danny Bearer, Scott Archer, Gregg Carroll, John Fries, Joey Saenz, George Trafton jr, and Squeek Blank.
Aside from Makaha, Stevenson was a competitive swimmer, lifeguard, and magazine publisher of such titles as Surfguide Magazine and later Poweredge Magazine.
After repeatedly asking skateboarders to stay away from a grom camp skateboard competition at an Auckland, New Zealand skateboard park Craig Platt appeared to have finally lost his temper and knocked one kid off his skateboard and then pushed skateboarder Leighton Smith, 38, in the neck, according to a story in the Otago Daily Times. The altercation became such a big deal that it was featured on a morning talk show on TVNZ.
A nice reminder to always be careful when interacting with angry papa bears.
It’s Friday so that must mean there’s a new Weekend Buzz with Mikey Taylor and Davis Torgerson. Hear tales of Mikey’s first and last car crash, Davis’ trick, and the official definition of the Active Erica to fake. Speaking of Erica, what is up with the first four seconds of this clip?
Seems like Bear Mountain’s Hot Dawgs and Handrails was forever ago, but that hasn’t stopped Volcom from reminding us how rad it was or how hard Daniel Brown, Dylan Alito, Scott Blum rip the place up to the sounds of The Line’sSeventeen Dream.
