Silverton Mountain

Here are some of the photo's we took while snowboarding on Silverton Mountain. We couldn't have asked for a more perfect day!

Quandary Snowboard trip....

A Guard friend of Tyler's Invited Tyler, Malcolm, and I to hike up Quandary and board down it.  The day before the hike Tyler's buddy calls in sick, and since we already rented snow shoes we decided to go by ourselves.  Above is a picture right before we hit the trail at 0840.  
The trail head map thingy that tould us to stay on the path.

We somehow missed the actual trail and ended up hiking on this road about a mile until we realized our mistake.  We turned around and found a trail that lead to the main trail so we didn't have to hike all the way back.
There was a good sized tree that fell down and I tried walking over it and then the snow caved in and I got stuck under it....that was fun getting out :P
                                                                  Almost to treeline.

We stopped here to eat food.  When we were eating the wind really started picking up so we decided to gear up for the way down.  We're kinda regretting not summiting, but we were tired and if we did summit there is a saddle between the real summit and the false summit so we would've had to hike up a little ways before continuing down.    


It was a beautiful day!  A little hot but still wonderful!
We started down at 1245.


The snow was really deep and heavy.  We post holed (or sinking deep into the snow making it hard and funny to get out) quite often. 

We got down at 1450(2:50 for us civilians).  

Things we learned:

1.  Pack light!

2.  Leave early: around 5-6am would've been best because the snow would've been hard and we wouldn't have sunk as many times.

3.  There's nothing like a sunny day hiking a 14'er...weather you summit or not! 

Eldora Snowboarding Trip

Tyler, Rachel, Malcolm, Daniel, and I went to Eldora today. When we first got there it wasn't snowing hard at all. But by the middle to the end of the day it was snowing really hard...so there was lots of powder which made for some awesome riding. I brought the camera to take some video's of us snowboarding. I'm wearing a black helmet and Malcolm has the green one on...thats the only way to tell the difference without us standing next to each other. Tyler is in the white camo...Rachel is in all black...and Daniel has a yellow helmet on. Because it was so cold the battery didn't last very long, so we didn't get much footage. Most of the stuff we were doing in the video we were able to land by the end of the day...but the camera didn't last that long because snow and electronics don't mix.

Enjoy the video...more is sure to come.

Tyler's snowboard...

The board is a Never Summer Premier 159 with Flow bindings...its a good board for the stuff Tyler enjoys riding...

Snowboards...

This is the board I just purchased...it's Burton Blunt 155 with FL55 Flow bindings...the flex on the board is amazing and the graphics speak for themselves...I paid $300 on craigslist for it and boots.

This is Malcolm's board...its a Rossignol RS 155 with Ride LS bindings...the flex on it is really good and Malcolm thinks the graphics are really cool...he paid $120 for it and the boots.



Pictures of Tyler's are coming soon...once it gets back from getting a tune up at Christy Sports.