Ok so below i wrote about shirt ideas and we had our friend, Adolfo Lara, make us a design so here it is...and big props and thanks goes out Adolfo.
Here is a shirt design Kortnee McKinnon made for us... MAD PROPS KORBIT THANKS!
I hope to add a couple more designs on here so we can have a variety to choose from.
Hello my lovely blogging friends. This post is going to be a little bit random. I have yet to add a post so i figured i could. so basically summer is officially over due to everyone leaving or going back to school. well u know what that means...In a couple months the SD-CREW will be hitting the slopes again. I dunno if any blogger friends are interested but I'm looking to make some shirts of our crew. Hopefully this will happen within the next few months so we can have some product while we ski/board. If anyone is interested in designing or buying a shirt let me know or add us on myspace (www.myspace.com/sdcrw406). so i say lets make the best of the rest of the time till ski season. Mad Props to our crew that traveled to GNP i was unable to make it but heard it was sicktor. till next time kids...
Here is the Logan Pass Invasion video. Compressing videos suck. I suck at it Youtube makes it suck even more. Here it is for now, I hope to get a better resolution video up sometime soon. When the full length video is done it will be available on DVD and have probably most of this footage in it as well.
Friday July 25, TJ, Andy, Pat, Derrick, Kyle, Kevin, Sam, and myself departed for Glacier National Park. We had the van loaded to the brim with ski gear, camping gear, longboards, and other knick knacks. Big ups to the Ferrins for letting us use their van!
Browning can be a scary place or a hilarious place any time of the day especially on the weekend. In our case it turned out to be hilarious. Check out the drunk we met at the gas station.
We made it to camp at St Mary in good time. We ended up setting up camp in the dark which is never any fun. Since most of us slept outside we got up early and cooked a good hardy camp breakfast.
We made good time up the pass and started hiking up the boardwalk around 10 AM.
We met up with Jake from Lewistown that morning in the parking lot. The walk to the snow took about 15 minutes. After we booted up, we split up to scout out jump building spots. Pat, Derek, and I hiked to a nose where we could see down into Hidden Lake. The view up there was amazing but the only jump spot we found would require a ton of work. We skied a short line and then hiked back to the rest of the group. When we got back to the other spot they already had a nice jump waiting for us.
Pat, Derek and Kevin decided they wanted to build a step up. They spent the rest of the day, about 3 hours shoveling snow for a take off. Meanwhile TJ and I built a small lip on the bank that was their landing to play on. That lip eventually became padding for Pat coming up short the next day.
By 2 PM the snow was getting way to slow to keep hitting our jumps so we decided to head back to camp. On the way back to the boardwalk we found a fun boulder/drop to play on and that was fun. One of the goals of the weekend was to get as many epic high fives as possible. When you are in a national park with ski gear on this is incredibly easy.
We stopped for a swim on the way back in the frigid waters of St Mary Lake. Jake found a pretty nice cliff to jump off of. Mad props for guinea pigging it. We went back to camp so TJ, Derek, Pat, and Kevin could longboard to St Mary village.
At the ice cream parlor, I got this girls phone number named Eve from Chicago. She promised to come back to camp later that night when she got off work but she turned out to be a liar.
Back at camp:
That night, 5 of us slept outside around the fire so we thought it would be prudent to keep the fire going all night. After all it was attended. I woke up at about 3 in the morning and it was roaring. Andy said he stoked it a few times during the night. The next morning we got up and started cooking breakfast and breaking down camp. This guy from Florida made his way into our camp (sorry if I forgot your name, I dont think we ever exchanged names). He couldnt believe we were skiing and took some pictures with us. He was also equally amazed that we were drinking Moose Drool so we gave him a bottle of it. He is part of a camp called Camp Fly Rod. Their mission is to help kids with disabilities do outdoor activities. The guy was a bad ass and one of those people you had to be there to understand what I mean. He was riding a BMW cruiser bike and wheelied past our camp site. We got up the pass a little later that morning and barely were able to find a parking spot. We also got to witness some near roadrage in the parking lot. As soon as we got to the jump spots Pat took the big jump first hit. He came about 6 feet short and from above it looked like he could have been hurt badly. Luckily he just laughed about it. Due to the slow snow, no one else hit the big jump that day.
Throughout the day it got cloudy, windy, and the snow got slower. The jumps didnt really go off to much. We were hiking nearly twice as high and not boosting as high as the day before. It was a perfect day to head for steeper terrain. I stayed behind and manned the video camera and worked on my misties but it looked like a fun line.
Due to the slow conditions we headed back down, it was still a good day none the less. We stopped to session the rocks on the way down and Pat and I buttered across the boardwalk to the surprise of the tourists. After we got down to the parking lot we continued our odyssey of epic high fives.
Then we stopped in St Mary so I could get an epic high five from Eve and take care of some other business.
On the way back to Browning we played this horrible game called cook out, dont ever play it. To play you roll up all the windows and turn the heat on. This game sucks with 8 sweaty guys. To try and pass time I fell asleep with my arm on the back of the seat. Pat was sitting behind me singing my arm hair with a lighter. To set him straight I grabbed a can of bug spray and the next time he did it I sprayed the bug spray into the flame. It burned my arm pretty good but it also lit him on fire so I won.
A few more pictures:
Cookout:
View from camp:
Thats it. It was an epic weekend! I hope to have an edit up by Sunday!
