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DC Mountain Lab Trip

Clay — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:42:38 +0000

On February 23, 2010, 4 DC Canadian riders: Max Honegger, Rupert Davies,

Logan Haubrich, Andrew Geeves, 1 filmer: Ryan Slizack and myself (Nick

Moore, DC TM), jumped on a plane to Park City, Utah for 10 day trip that

only those allowed in can appreciate. Once arriving at the DC Mtn. Lab we

were shocked, we had this entire house and private snowboard park to

ourselves.

As soon as the team was up and ready after scoping out the property, the

air bag was blown up, the sky was blue, and the sleds were full of gas. We

all knew this was going to be one week we would never forget.

The first thing the team had to do was test out the airbag…the drop in was

literally right on our front deck, who wouldn’t give it a “tester-rosa”,

nothing says good morning like a few inverts and a fresh 2 minute cup of

coffee.

The park crew showed up most days, led by Chris “Cheez Burga” Vaughn. He

gave us a few guidelines, share the beer, clean the house, and have fun! The

man himself then headed over to the park and started up the “Little Biggie”

rope tow followed by Riley and Evan Drage who then started to groom the

landings and pointed out some of the key features: the bomb jib, the snake

run, the pvc pipes, and the soon to be road gap.

Each day was nonstop, lap after lap, run after run. Eventually the team

started to get tired, but only to fuel up on some deli meat sandwiches,

donuts, and more coffee then hop onto a sled and rip back to the park for

more riding. The days ended with quick games to 11 of ping pong…best of 3,

some og shred vids, dance parties with Logan aka DJ Parrot (OKAY!) followed

by a nice soak in the hot tub.

Some highlights of the trip were the hip and road gap sessions, and the long

and winding, speed bump after speed bump snake run (15 features all linked

together in and out of the trees). We also had some visitors from the park

crew at Park City, Bozwreck. Aaron Biittner, Sean Black and Scotty Arnold

came by for some air time on the air bag. Nick Olsen (DC US Snow TM) aka

“Stone Cold” who has been at the Lab from the get go was on site to give a

hand grooming and to help out with tickets for a day at Park City.

Many, many thanks go out to Nick Olsen and his park crew Cheez Burga, Riley

and Evan Drage, Sean Lake, Shawna Olsten, Sandbox, and most importantly the

riders Max, Logan, Rupert and Andrew. Thanks for everybody’s positive

attitude and good times, I am stoked on the crew we had down at the Lab and

I am looking forward to seeing the footage.

-Nick Moore

The Mountain Lab

Geeves twanging

Max Honegger nose press

Logan Haubrich log jam

Geeves tweaking out a method

Rupert Davies frontside air on the wall ride

Japan Update #2

Clay — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:51:14 +0000

Here are some more pics from the Japan trip we are presently on. We have gotten some really good days filming and now we are in Tokyo… meaning things should get insane so stay tuned.

Japanese products have some crazy names… sometimes the english names end up meaning things they don’t intend them too… like Life Partner vitamin water.

Pocari Sweat… sounds tasty

I dont really know what these are called and they don’t even taste that good but Im sold on the logo and I call them Business Man Sausage.

I bought this rain gear… I don’t know why

Andrew and Rusty try out their purchases

If this guy can’t get you to gamble, no one can.

Ice Festival

Brendan checking out the ice caves at the Ice Festival

Mikey Pederson’s new blog

Clay — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:11:52 +0000

Mikey Pederson has recently joined the world of blogging. Check out his blog, Kitchensmear, for a behind the scenes look at his days filming for ‘Now You Know’ and his life in general.

Japan Update #1

Clay — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:59:05 +0000

This year we decided to do another trip to Japan, this time with Brendan Keenan, Rusty Ockenden, Andrew Hardingham and Snowboard Canada photographer Jeff Paterson. Its been a wild ride so far and Clayton from Black Diamond Lodge has been helping us out big time… Yes having someone else named Clayton makes things really confusing. Here are some pics of the trip so far, stay tuned for more updates.

airports… line ups… waiting…

I made another tribe and Rusty still didn’t want to join… I’m starting to wonder about this guy

fish at Sapporo Airport… Brendan dreaming of reeling this bastard in

Downtown Sapporo

you get PJs at the hotel… and chop sicks

packed into the van

Japan has bad ass tunnels

Rusty scoping roadside lines from the van roof

Brendan and Hardingham about to drop in

huge snow banks here

Rusty looking hagard

a rare break from eating at 711

the warning at the Onsen (nude hot springs)

Bikkle… the best drink in the world. Japanese vending machines in general are amazing.

Rusty living his dream

Sean Pettit is staying at the same lodge… the guy kills it with the ladies

Sean and Hardingham burning holes in the dance floor

yoyo’s in the bar