A freak storm hit Pittsburgh, so we decided to take advantage of it. Mikey, Johnny, Gus, Will, myself, and photog Mark Kohlman flew on out and met up with Sean Black.
Mikey hit a double line in this zone and managed to walk away with a snapped board and a mellow K.O.
Later that night Johnny and Gus showed up in good stlye.
Doing some airporting and checking out some spots on Sean’s iphone.
Here is Gus bagging some airtime. Nothing like a backyard booter to get the legs warm.
Johnny throwing out a method.
Mikey dropped in on a 5d.
Back to the hotel.
The next day we had a pool party. Mikey here checking out the options.
Will and Sean working on a “ballsy” landing.
Gus and Mikey modeling their matching Holden coats.
Check out the deep end. I think they fill this thing with holy water in the summer.
Johnny doing some sunset shoveling.
Will forgot his floaties so he had to stay in the shallow end.
We partied this pool into the morning hours.
Ahhhh and Ughhh
Liquid courage.
Lights out, more to come as the Pittsburghing continues.
The Ride team is currently cruising around Turkey. Here are some photos Alex sent me from the first part of their trip. I wasn’t there and Alex just emailed these pics, so I am going to make up the captions.
Darrell totally not on the phone. Just doing some airport modeling.
Austin looking happy to be in Turkey. He ate some icecream and chased it with a jack and coke.
E Stone looking very touristy.
Darrell put on a fake mustache and tried to slang some Turkey flags.
Darrell and Alex forgot their snowboards and their boots, so instead they just hung out and took a tour of Istanbul.
Sickels, Stone, and T-bird decided to take a nice stroll through the park and contemplate a Snowboarder Magazine/Ride/T9 colab. of a mirror company. The mirrors attach to your board and are made for mini skirt peeps in socal lift lines. Really cutting edge shit!
Darrell looking at a “Spicey Young Girls of Turkey” magazine. He held this womens fashion mag over the actual one he was reading to disguise his perverted inner urges.
Sickels left the crew and joined a Turkish secret society. All he got was this wicked red fez.
Ben and Alex have been shralping around Seagrams making moves lately. Look at that place!
Building some shit.
Jan builds jumps all by himself. The King Kong of block stacking!
Alex about to stack a clip!
Alex scoping a line or two.
Ben up top ready to rip.
Ben getting some.
Checking the snow. Nothing but pure pow.
Jan’s sled decided to taste some trees.
VG meets up with TWS in the capitol. Left to right: Deadlung, Jonas, Phil, Kuzyk, Grenier, Darrell, Bradshaw, Hooptown.
This was an anti-war demonstration performed by Jake Kuzyk.
Bob trying to beat his cover shot count from last year.
BOOM! There it is, Bob’s 3rd cover. Cover of “Dipshit Magazine” Their moto is: “Fuck progression, its all about the artsy photos.”
This is how it feels to shoot a cover. Just gotta lay down and soak it all in.
Darrell representing that hometown.
Boing!
Darrell was stroking it.
Mr. Hands does D.C.
We always knew something was wrong with Jonas.
BALLIN’
I bet Jonas got real artsy here.
Half dozen fool!
No sprinkles for Hoop. Liam is down for that.
Wallrides are done with, now its all about backflip ceiling rides. Just wait till you see Chris’ shot from this spot. STRAIGHT FUCKED!
Went up to Brighton yesterday for some solid good times. If you are in SLC, and you haven’t rode Brighton then you are missing out. The park is going off right now, not to mention some good snow in the forecast.
Johnny sporting the limited edition VG sticker.
Johnny has front blunts to regular on lock.
Will has that ultra lift.
Will aint scared to throw the horns. See you at Brighton all week. Word in the woods is that snow will be falling all week. Yesir.