Shreduary Mega Tour (Video on Vimeo)

With my current employment driving me to long days of waking up late, drinking pints of coffee, running, and spending a lot of time at the beach, I decided I needed to take some time off and get back to editing.  Because slush is everywhere and the sun is getting mighty toasty, I figured it was time to start catching up on the backlog of video editing I had.  First up in my iMovie attack was the mega trip Kath and I took over Presidents Week.  What started as a few day midweek trip to Maine to hit Sugarloaf expanded into 7 days in a Subaru.  Stops at seven ski resorts.  One and-a-half powder days.  A whole lot of wine.  And a crapload of fun.  Keep reading after the break.

The Greatest Video Collection Ever (Amazing)

I've totally been neglecting the Boloney Blog, but this video collection over at Backcountry requires the world to know of its existence.

http://backcountrybeacon.com/2010/04/top-10-gape-tastic-videos/

Boloney Crush

They didn't stand a chance.

Mega hike (mega nachos)

After an awesome mission to Cody bowl we are capping off with insanely
awesome nachos. Go cascades!

Day 41

On snow this season. Snuck onto the lift and cruising the slush and
sun. Après concert under the tram in a bit and I'm rocking the shred
vest 2.0. Wahoo.

Speilberg

Speilberg. Steven. Is hanging at Jackson and drinking a pbr

Irish fest at Jackson

Beers. 50 degrees. Sunny. St pattys. Bands all afternoon. Giddyup

Epic Fail (Brown Goes Down)

Boloney's very own Brown Matt - well known for his hard drinking and mayhem in None More Blacker (see here) - threw an awesome inadvertent backflip this season.  The results are amazing.  Enjoy his edit of the hurt:

I Win (The Game of Oneups-manship)

BP, Dan, I have something to say:  I win.  You thought you were cool with your 210s or your other variously absurd skis.  K2 built these guys custom for their shop in Vancouver during the olympics.  They are 16 feet tall.  That would make them 468 cms.  In that case I win... by quite a lot.  I will be purchasing these skis and than I will be the ultimate skier.

Bolton Valley in the Raw (The Start of the President's Tour)

Here's all the fun from the first Saturday of the Presidents' Week Mega Tour.  Stop number one was an awesome day at Bolton Valley, VT.

Check it out!

Lake Tarded in the Raw (200th Post!)

Three years into this blogging adventure and I've hit the 200th post.  Who would have figured it would be the Lake Tahoe raw footage collection?  As per Tim's request, I've put up all the unedited riding footage (plus a few other gems) in one long unedited clip.  It goes Heavenly Day 1, 2, 4, then Kirkwood, then Squaw.  Whole lot of fun stuff in there and great out west snow.  First times for everything!

Squaw Recap (official)

In bullet points:
-thousands of acres of nutso bowls, steeps, and cliffs
-Lorraine expressed a certain terror of everything squaw and forgot
how to ski temporarily.
-loraine has dubbed tim and myself the dareful duo
-high camp is one of the greatest places in the world to have a beer
-seeing Olympian Johnny Moseley walking down the road with his kid was
cool
-2$ pbrs in the local rippers bar and getting the skinny on unoffical
squaw was awesome
-squaw is epic

Squaw (Olympic mission)

Off to squaw on the 755 bus after an absurd number of wines and tonics.

The mountain is amazing - thousands of acres of huge steep bowls.
Everything is good here. That is all.

Loraine-ism

From yesterday in heavnlys powder.

"so what's the deal with this powder. Ya don't turn in it?"

Bps got a new shirt

Dong has his going out shirt on.

This should be interesting.

Boloney Goes Sidecountry

After ripping up the fresh snow heavenly had to offer I headed up to
the top of the milky way bowl for a spirited hike. 30 minutes later I
got to the top of the hill and had an amazing view.

An awesome run down the highest part of the mountain made for quite a
smile.

Next up we headed (seperately whoops!) to the fire break gate and off
the resort property. Deep snow. Pillows Trees. Rocks. Everything one
could want.

We went in seperately and I met up with gnaly skiier drew. Me and him
made it down eventually over an insane slope and met up with the rest
of the kids in the village. All in agreement: best run.

Well that was something. (all in)

Last night was certainly something. After survivng the death bus to
get back, I got a little loopy and played a crap load of roulette. At
one point I was up 600. Let's just leave it at that.

Woke up to bluebird skies and 14 of fresh. Byahhhhhhh

Captain Kirkwood Comes Through (Deeper)

Number 1 day in all the years i've ridden. I've never experienced a
time where everyturn yielded overhead snow waves and 100 percent
control.

At points the snow became blinding. Litterally so much snow in the
face, turn after turn, that riding required some kind if sixth sense
where you trusted the snow and the board.

Only exploring a fraction of this amazing mountain yielded my most
excellent runs.

I will return.

Bus ride of doom (hold me)

If this message is my last communication, I died a happy boloner after
having my most epic day on a snowboard ever.

Currently, I am on the bus after roads have reopened. There is close
to 20 inches of snow on the road and the bus is sliding on everyturn.
The dropoffs at points are brutal in case of a rollover and the
visibilty is non existent.

The snow created such a white out and came down so hard before they
had to close the road to blast for avalanches. On the road!

Speeds are around 20 mph - any faster and we go out of control. Any
slower and we don't have momentum to maintain traction.

I've always said you have to earn you turns. On this day I'm just
happy I'm not driving.

I don't know when or if we will make it back to night, but I know
everyturn in the most perfect snow I've ever ridden made it worth it.

Thank you ullr.

For this power seen and one tk, that is all. Next stop, somewhere.

Quick Decisions (kirkwood pow hunt)

7:04 at starbucks with the snow report open: kirkwood - 12 inches.
Heavenly -2 inches.

The decision was easy. A few quick phonecall to the rest of the
boloners and the bus company and at 7:24 we boarded a snow tired bus
headed to kirkwood.

Giddyup