Archive for July, 2008

Hood bound

Going to Hood next week. Hella hyped. It’s my home mountain and been too long since I shredded that glacier. Here’s a few photos from a couple summers ago on the volcano. There’ll be more where this came from starting August 7th.

A minute with Mike Ranquet

Earlier this summer Mike Ranquet stopped by the office. What I thought was going to be a quick interview turned into a two-hour talk about the early days at Mt. Baker, George Dobis and the Mt. Baker Snowboard Shop, Alaska, and how he thinks high backs are holding snowboarding back.
I’m still transcribing our conversation. It’ll [...]

Field Trip: Signal Snowboards

Went up to Signal Snowboards last week. They hosted an open house of sorts and invited everyone into their factory aka “The Lodge” to shows us what they’re up to.
As it turns out, they’re up to a lot.

They’re cranking out boards these days and according to Signal co-founder and owner Dave Lee, they can barely [...]

These Days

These Days things are pretty strange. The dudes are starting to pull their hair out. Shit’s coming down to the wire and Joe, Gary and Corey are noticably stressed. It’s not because they’re behind, but really just because they care so damn much.
They’ve all started acting a little weird, or, uh…weirder.
Joe found these gloves one [...]

What it is…

This is it: my blog. I’ll do my best to keep it from getting awkward, but can’t promise anything.
This mag biz is a grind and I can’t always dedicate as much time to things as I’d like. Sometimes you just run out of time. Just ask this guy, he didn’t even have time to get [...]

 
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