Snowing in Breck!

So there's finally snow coming down outside here, we realllllly needed it! Looking out my window in downtown Breck and everything is white :D The Mountain Dew Tour is less than a month away, and they're claiming its going to be bigger than X Games and blah blah blah. Won't be too sick if there's no snow... so I'm definitely stoked. Getting a little nervouse for it, but I've been working really hard on those rails, just waiting for some jumps to pop up somewhere. Word on the street is either Dec. 7th or 9th, so keeping my fingers crossed it keeps snowig like this.
It's fun in Breck right now, everyone and their mother is here for Dew tour, so got to see some old friends which is always nice. I'm trying really hard not to go to the bar, but it's hard when all your friends from out of town are around. Not drinking at all, but the staying up late is probably going to catch up to me. Oh and I officially don't have a job now, definitely have to do something about that...
But I got a big box of new outerwear from Ride and Cappel yesterday, but it's in Boulder and I'm in Breck. Mom opened the box for me though, sounds like there's a bunch of stuff so I'm a happy camper! I was just down there for Thanksgiving, so good I ate soooooo much, so I probably won't go down until next week sometime. The roads are so sketchy right now it's scary driving anyway. Good thing I can just walk to the gondola! :D

See What I See Premiere/ ON THE HORIZON Mini Tease

So WE have teamed up with GARFINKLES, whistlers favourite nightclub! Runway films is having their premiere at Garfs this Thursday and what better audience to premiere our mini tease too; A club full of snowboard chickens!!! We will be handing out free goodies from THE CIRCLE and lots of STICKERS!! Definitely come on down to Garfs this thursday and support the cause!!

ComputernerdinG

Wrist is still pretty effed,  I've been putting some serious time in on my computer.  Declined offers of going out last night and tonight.  Drinking probably wouldn't be good for the swelling.  Had my first shift at Showcase tonight, it was busy and hectic.  Tomorrow I move out of my pretty house in the village and into a house in Alta Vista with a bunch of boys.  I'm getting pretty used to packing up all of my belongings and moving.

This interviews worth reading i think..for several reasons.  Its been up for a while but whatever.  One of the best freeriders everr, plus he's aware of environmental issues.  More snowboarders probably should be...  The green mountain project sounds kinda coool

Nicolas Muller Interview

Holden has a line of outerwear made with waterproof hemp thats super environmentally friendly too. interesting...

Lazy Friday

I don't have my pass yet so i just had a lazy day. I went to breakfast with Jan and Max, then to Coffee with Hayden. I got Hayden a job lifting boxes for the new Tna. We went in there and he signed papers and such. My new flannel was in, It was puking wet snow outside, the mountains looked foggy. Hopefully it gets really cold overnight so thatall stays on as a base to cover all those damn landmines. I have my contractfor my pass now so hopefully i will be getting things going. Hopefully this snow doesn't stop, we just need it to stay cold.

BLACKCOMB OPENING DAY!!!!

Missed out on Whistler opening day because i was real SICK! Got up at 6am to be at the lift but had to duck out just as the line was starting to move..dammit! Yesterday made up for wednesdays' loss. FRESH POWDER over rocks and wood chunks. So fun! Derek is still in town for me, him, Griff, Gill and her new knee, and Freddie took some sweet lines and hit up a few of thelil jibs already set up. Its snowing like crazy down here in Nordic so I can only imagine what it is doing up there. As long as this snow doesnt turn to rain tomorrow is going to be AMAZING! worked the Wildcat party at Garfs last night, all the newbies are in town so there were 3 fights, more than 8 attempts at people trying to steal out of our tip jars, HUGE promo tabs and some solid entertainment! Gonna hit up the gym with the boyfriend today, make some french toast, and head off to work. SO excited for tomorow :D

not snowboarding...

k this isnt snowboarding at all, but my friend just showed me this link and its gnarly.  i dont understand how he mangled himself so badly.  

also.. i just discovered THIS

aand happy american thanksgiving!

My Whistler Opening Day

Alarm went off at 6:08 am (since i don't like waking up to normal times) Haha I actually woke up not tired and excited. Opening day, though not like other years ;where its a huge pow day and the whole mountain is opening with both gondolas going and lots of snow to enjoy. This year a little different weather conditions. I went outside, it was still dark. I then grabbed my bike and my board and tried to mount my bicycle. The wheel then slipped on the icy ground so I put my foot down. I rolled myself on the bike to the road where I figured it might be a bit easier. I tried for the second time, wheel slipped out. I then put down my foot with cat like instincts and my foot slipped out on the ice. I was a fallen mess of bike and snowboard. I picked myself up looked around, neighborhood was dead as usual, especially for 6:30 in the morning. Finally I got on my bike and didn't look back. Left hand steering, right hand holding my snowboard, boots already on with outerwear done up. The trek from my house to the mountain is completely uphill. Something I didn't think about was changing gears, they are on my right, same as the snowboard. So I biked very hard, sweating and panting out of breathing trying to make it up the long slope without stopped. If i stopped their would be no hope of continuing. I MADE IT, pulled into earls loop and locked up my bike, Darrah then appeared out of know-where and said "oh my you biked here, thats commitment" , I laughed and struggled with my frozen shut lock. Darrah and I then walked downstairs to Starbucks. Where the girls were all meeting up. I ordered oatmeal and a coffee and sat there, still sweating and out of breath. Taylor and Derek showed up a bit late due to a frozen windshield. We all then walked to the lift, where the line wasn't too too long. We butted in with some friends to create an eight. With a crew of eight you don't have to have silly singles jammed into your gondola. Taylor wasn't feeling well so she went home with Derek before it opened. Darrah went ahead with the boys she came with. So it was just me, Jarrod, Kevin, Mike, Adam. We did the damn thing for awhile ripping pow lines from top to bottom untouched. So totally unexpected and amazing!! It was a lot of fun, you couldn't cross tracks though or else you hit rocks or trees! I actually hit a tree and fell backwards five feet into a tree-well.. IT was so hard to get out of. Lucky I measeled myself out of there. People die in tree wells all the time around here. The conditions got worse as the day went on, the only snow we had got tracked and it was like riding through land mines (rocks). I rode with Geeves, Adam, Gill, Freddy and Mike for the rest of the day. It was wicked fun times, I went down around Noon with Gill. We went and got a coffee and reminisced. I biked home got changed biked back went to work. Work was hard, I was hungry and we had alot to do. So I biked home SO FAST and fried up some tomatoes and toasted some toast. I ate that then an apple with cheese.. then half an opa pita. Now I am on the couch and totally going to bed early tonight!!!!

good day overall. goodday.

oh but note to self: 145's are ALOT of work in snow especially for a tall girl.

Wrist Shenanigans

so i went to get a pin taken out of my wrist yesterday, which i was told was a mellow procedure.  after having my arm cut open and an hour of some lady yanking on metal in my wrist with pliers, i was thinking it didnt seem too mellow.  finally they decide to xray it again on a different angle and discovered it wasnt a pin sticking out of my wrist it was a screw... which was attached to the plate holding my bones together in there.  so they sewed me up and schedualed me for a surgery in squamish next week. sweeet.  im taking a few days off work cause its real sore.  it was opening day today and im not allowed to go snowboarding (doctors exact words were: if you fall on that wrist, you will break something) but i figured id just be veryy careful.  slept at gills, woke up at 530 and headed to the village with jan and jake.  3 hours later we were on our first gondola of the season.  it was a pretty fun day despite the serious lack of snow and my extreme cautiousness.  everybody was up and stoked, it was a good vibe.  went inside for lunch, and discovered my hand was huuge and swollen.  kinda worried me, so i cut my day short.  i think im going to follow the doctors instructions and not snowboard til this thing is healed.   we'll post pictures later

November 24th: Boarding,Loggin and Blogging.

Today was prettty fun did the boardin, coffee drinking, electronics playing and I HAD A SNOW BALL  FIGHT WITH A LITTLE KID THAT KNOWS LIL WAYNE. haha just kidding about the lil wayne part but he is from New Orleans and he was totally flirting with me all day throwing snowballs at me and hiding. He was like.. id say 10 ish and he came by our little jib sesh to hangout. Anyways Griffin told him i would kiss him if he wouldn't stop throwing snowballs and he ran away home yelling GROSSS. haha Amazing.

I just made some fried tomatoes on spicy humus and toast. It was pretty delicious now I'm making hot coco and waiting for the hills to come on...

Overall a gooddayindeed.

CV

ACL TEST

We went up to Kadenwood today for a little pre-season shredding, it was my first time since the surg. and the happiest day in a long time. Caley, Darrah, Taylor and I ripped some pow turns after some mad hikes and shit went off...ch.

Kadenwood...again

Since the mountain isn't open yet we are headed up to kadenwood again.. I am not sure whats up there, hopefully something fun. I need to take the edges off my board but don't have a file eff.

Getting Cold

Haha chriggy and i kicked christmas.

Shred Kits Ready...Just Waiting For The Snow To Fall.

So...my saturday consisted of setting up my snowboard, sticker job completed, lacing up the boots, and strapping in knee brace and all and doing some sweet presses in my living room. I'm pretty cool hah, but the knee feels great almost 6 moths post op acl reconstruction and I think I'm ready to shred. After some sweet carpet pow turns it was off to the final Sandbox premiere to catch up with some old friends and make it rain. Here are the results of our super high profile photo shoot and some extras from the night as well as the Vancouver premiere. Embrace...

FLAT TIRE

got my new truck last wednesday 2005 4x4 V8 4.6L F150. officially in debt. it is my new baby, so scared of doing any damage to it. front left tire looked crazy flat today so me and derek hit up the husky to fill it up. it freaking EXPLODED! ooops? it was pretty gnarly. thank goodness for a full size spare tire and thank goodness even more for derek knowing and teaching me how to change the damn thing. intimidating stuff. but now i can thankfully say that I CAN CHANGE A TIRE! :D

JIB SESH BASE II

Jib sesh #3 of the season. unfortunately the mountain didnt open on its secretive early opening date but someone set up a mini jump and a lil down bar. good times. Derek just got into town too. Pretty lucky to have such an amazing guy like him come visit me in whistler, STOKED :D We went for a good shred. SIck crew: Caley V, Logan Short, Kevin Griff, lil Griff, Derek Dennison, Matt Belzile, Mikey Pederson, Jess Kimura, Ben Bilouq, Steve Lebel, Rusty Okenden and many many fun people down for the shred. Shred sesh tomorrow in Kadenwood yay! mountain scheduled to open thursday but theres a rumor of it opening for wednesday for early braggin rights.

SANDBOX!

SANDBOX PREMIER at the Westin!!!!!
The venue was wicked and the turn out was even sweeter. best vibe EVER! great people great times..... So stoked to get to hang out with everyone. seems as if hermit season is quickly approaching and with everyone low on the financial scale it is a hard pressed time to get to hang with everyone. last night was a huge success from a spectators stand point. AMAZING night! even one of the bartenders jumped around on top of the bar in his underwear. everyone had a good time. cant wait for the next big reunion! xo

Second Snow +Sandbox Finale= goodtimes : )

So the mountain was said to open saturday but due to weird weather lately it couldn't do it. Although on Saturday it snowed and we all headed up to base two. There was a bench, log jib, jumper thingy, sign jibby and a downrail. Huge crew hanging out and doing their thing it was pretty fun, remind me to dull my edges those babies are scarrryyy!! Then i headed to pasta lapino with Hayden, Geeves, Logan and Hayden's brother. It was so good and so affordable, i forgot how good that place is. Chugged a Vitamin water from the circle and headed home to shower and get ready. My dad and i made a stir-fry it was okay, not as good as i usually make them we had a lack of sauce, so we made due. Geeves came over and then Chrigy,Freddy,Gill, Mark, Adam, Jody, Belzile and we played a drinking game we made up called Spin The Bottle: Hug or Drink. Ha-ha so what happened was you spin the bottle and the person it points to can either Hug you and drink with you or drink by themselves 3 times. Ha-ha so that made some laughs, and Geeves popped some champagne with a knife and accidently broke the top which accidently cut his pinky finger. We said cheers and laughed and stuff. Then it came time to head to the premiere so we had designated drives drive us there and we waltzed in. There was a photo area with props and such and a photographer taking photos. Two huge screen's a DJ and a Bar. Red wrist band means you can watch the movie, Blue wrist band means you can drink. THEN we ran around said hi laughed a lot and on the way back from the washroom kicked christmas trees and i found this photo of santa on my phone. ha-ha oh man! Heres some photos... so you can bask in how much fun we had last night!

Premier Round 2: SANDBOX

sandbox premier in whistler tonight.. should be crazyy.  i have no more cast to pretect my wrist from drunken stupidness which kinda worries me

ALSO it snowed and it looks like its gonna stick around, apparently i missed a good sesh at base 2 today.  stupid work

OPENING DAY?

forecast is calling for 50cms on the mountain by friday morning!
opening day sat. 22nd?

Mammoth Road Trip: Day 4

I woke up early Sunday morning and got taken to a breakfast of bagels and soy lattes by a cute boy, which is always a good start to any day, and headed up the mountain. Today was the day we broke out the camera to do some filming since it was our last day in Mammoth. Our friend Colin did the filming for us, (who knew he could cook and film!?) and got some really amazing footage of us. Started out sessioning the down tube at the top of the park where frontboards were abundant and faceplants few and far between. Michelle got a nice shot on the C-rail, which gave me some serious sw-elbow when I frontboarded on it. Had a few solid shots on a down rail after that, then headed to the jump to catch air haha. It was only about 30ish ft, but definitly big enough to float some nice 3's and a few other lil tricks. Some more shots on random jibs throughout the park rounded up the park filming so we went off to find natural jibs. Headed back to the natural step-up we'd found the other day, and put some bamboo poles in the mix to make for some sick spin-tap-spin shots. Played with the pole for a bit, jibbing it, airing over it, etc. until I got bored and decided to pull out some backflips. Attempt one went straight to the face on rocks basically and scraped my face a bit, but had to try agian. Second try went well, did a good flip, but we decided the jump was too small to be a great backie jump. So we headed up to the top of the mountain, where there were a bunch of wind fences that had natural mounds of snow piled up= natural fence jump! Kind of a sketchy run-in, but after we set the thing up and hit it a couple times it was really fun. A few taps, spins, and one really hard fall on my broken tailbone later, we had to wrap it up since the mountain was almost closed. The shots from that should be awesome, the scenery in the backdrop was absolutely beautiful.

Once we got off the mountain we had to pack all of our stuff back into Alice's little car and get back on the road, I had to work at 10 AM in Breckenridge and we had a long drive ahead of us! Left Mammoth at about 5 PM and drove all night, saw some really funny things, a beautiful moon, and me skipping in the dark in the middle of nowhere along the way, and made it back to Park City at about 2:30 AM. After a few Redbulls and a couple 5 hour energy drinks later, we found ourselves back where we started in Breckenridge, at about 9:30. I had to huslte my little butt off to go to work at 10, with no sleep, until 7 that night... good thing the whole trip was more than worth it!!!

Mammoth Road Trip: Day 3

Got up the mountain a little late this morning, the evening before definitely took it's toll due to very little sleep. Met up with the ladies just as the snow began to soften and started having fun. Decideded to ride the lift switch for a bit, absolutely terrifying, never doing that again! Thought I could handle it but it was too awkward and scary haha. Yet another day of sunshine and warm weather (where is the snow?) but slushy park made it perfect conditions for learning new tricks, and getting some old ones back :) The mountain was pretty packed just because it was the weekend and all of LA was there to play too, so lift lines were a hassle. Got some new Electric goggles from Cyle, so that was a definite bonus to the day, and lots of free redbulls from the girls who were handing them out all weekend. We were all pretty spent, and wanted to rest a bit before going out so we headed down the mountain a bit early.

Went to Nick and Willies for some of the most amazing pizza I've ever eaten, plus lots of laughs and Michelle tounging a picture of poor Paul Newman haha.

After pizza we headed into the village to Sushi Rei, where it was a party full of friends and industry people, snowboard videos playing and sake drinking. Bascially everyone was celebrating the return of winter and a great start to the season in Mammoth. Ended up staying there for quite a while socializing and sake-ing it up before heading over to Whiskey Creek. Get to Whiskey and it was so crowded they were hardley letting anyone in. Decided that sushi was wild enough, and that not staying out all night again would be a good choice...

Mammoth Road Trip: Day 2

Woke up early to head to the hill Friday morning, and after a delicious breakfast omlette I geared up and caught a ride. Once Michelle and I rode up the mountain with her friend Colin, we hopped on the lift to enjoy another perfectly sunny California day. Took a few laps waiting for the park to soften up, and caught up with Alice and her friend Javi. Alice, Javi, and I rode around the mountain finding fun natural jibs and jumps, and even some powder still hidden in the trees! Since my tailbone is technically still broken I was still taking it really easy, so seeing more of Mammoth than just the park was great. We found this sick little dugout jump that was a natural step up and lots of fun to hit, so hung around there for a while. There is so much to the mountain, lots of cliffs and sick hidden jibs that you'd never know about unless shown, so it made for an awesome freeride session. Eventually found our way back to the park for the rest of the day, played around on all the tubes they had setup throughout, down tubes, tube bonks, street style tubes, etc etc. Ran into creepy Cyle Cadam, the Electric TM, a man we all know and love, and who I saw knock himself out the morning before... he wasn't so stoked on that haha. So after another long day we rolled home to get ready for the night!

Went to Colin's house where he made us a gourmet dinner including some mean quesadillas and tamales. Another reason of why Colin is the man! After our delicious meal, Alice and I headed down to Lakanuki, one of the only bars in Mammoth, for a big industry party. Bar was packed with people, lots of old friends from Whistler like Fabia and Cornell which was awesome, plus met so many new kids who were just stoked to be in Mammoth for the weekend having fun like everyone else. Free Monster& vodkas all night helped turn the evening into one of dancing and shenanigins, and was definitely one of the best parties I've attended in a long time. Left the bar at the very end of the night exausted, tipsy, and more than ready for a good night's sleep!

Mammoth Road Trip: Day 1

On Tueday I ran into my friend Michelle Shea while riding at Breck, where she convinced me to take a road trip with her to Mammoth, CA, the next day. I can never say no to a good adventure, so I decided to tag along. We left Breck at about 1:30 in the afternoon where we proceeded to drive to Park City, UT, to pick up our friend Alice Gong. After driving 8 1/2 hours to get Alice, we got back on the road, Cali-bound. We had some foggy stretches, and a few close encounters with deer and bunnies on the road, (some bunnies more lucky than others i'm afraid...) but after 9 hours of driving under a full moon the sun finally started to rise! Ahead of us stood Mammoth Mountain and lots of fun shredding to be had. So after only a couple of hours rest, we headed up to the mountain. It had snowed 3 ft earlier in the week, so half of the mountain was open with tons of runs top to bottom, plus a park with endless fun jibs and a couple jumps. We took the gondola to the very top of the mountain, such an incredible view, not a cloud in the sky and so warm out!

Rode all day, all over the mountain, sessioning the park and running into countless friends from all over the country. Seems that we weren't the only people who wanted to be in Mammoth for the weekend! So after a long day of fun and shredding we ended up leaving to pass out and get some much needed sleep in preparation for the night ahead.

We started out the night at the sushi restaraunt, Sushi Rei, where we watched "That's It That's All," which is mindblowing to say the least. Met up with some friends there and headed over to Whiskey Creek to watch the premier of "The Boned Age," the Grenade movie which is hysterical. While wandering the bar I bumped into some more random people, inlcuding, but not limited to, Fabia aka Camp of Champs head honcho! Ha always a fun surprise seeing her at a random bar. Danced the night away and headed home for a night of serious sleeping.

Early Opening!? Yes!? or NO??

So early opening is said to be saturday but its not looking so good.. the snow-line is very high.. hopefully they come through.

Recoveryyy!

trying to recover from last week.  falling off cars, waking up on hard wood floors, working 13 hours straight, etc... drained me.  meeting with an orthopedic surgeon tomorrow to maybe get this cast off finally, and thenn im gonna learn how to drive my truck! 

Wasting Time...

So just like pretty much everyone else besides Kea and Megan, I'm also spending a lot of time at the gym and biking in the cold

Check List Sunday

Check List:

Business Plan CHECK!!!
Proposals to Mountains 1/2 Check
...

Double Double day 2...Here we go!

Taye OUT

And the results..

So Hay comes picks me up and drives Jen and I down to the city. We stopped at Starbucks in Creekside and saw Alex Duckworthh  she was in town for the night before she drove to Colorado. So i got a latte and a muffin ( the muffin wasn't even good) Then we continued i kinda just slept in the backseats while Hayden and Jen chatted away. We then went to Chrigys house and changed clothes. We met up with Jody,Mark and Mikey and ate at the Cactus club. It was really yummy. We then grabbed everyone and walked over to the skytrain. I TOOK MY FIRST skytrain. It was pretty fun,  similar to  go train and some train i went on in germany once. Haha Darrah sat on my lap and ZOOM it brought us to commercial. Then we walked the wrong way and realized and turned around and walked the right way.  When we got there, there was a big line but somehow i had this idea i could walk to the front and get in and it seemed to work. I don't think anyone even noticed. When we got in it was packed, Runway movie was half way through so i didnt really get to see it. There was a big monster drinking area and and big chairs and movie watching section. All our friends were scattered about, and everyone running around in party snake shirts. When party snake came on it was wild out fun to watch. Sandbox was fun too. Errbody was there. Anyways we then took the skytrain AGAIN to the Voloures party premier thing. Their whole crew was there, then fights broke out people got bottled chrigy got slapped and we peaced out cause obviously bad vibe.  Headed to Burbon where a few of the people from premiering went, and we DANCED. oh did we ever. Solid crew of Max Rupert Darrah and I on the floor. Went home and ordered pizza. Then we slept and eric made me britta water at 6 in the morning. Overall a pretty fun night. Darrah realized she doesn't like vancouver because when you want to go to another bar you have to walk for blocks and take trains. When your in whistler you walk next door... Today was funny we went shopping and i was a real comedian. Swindled free pitas, Told the girls at rocky mountain that i should pay for my carmel apple tommorw and hayd eh chay Littayy. Yup.