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.

Boloney Off to Tahoe in the AM (Tahizzle?)

Dong, myself, Claire, Tim, and one LeBrainest are off on a wild adventure to North America's second highest lake, the great Tahoe.

Resort of choice on this most rustic of trips?  Of course the Mont Bleu Casino at the base of Heavenly.  Giddyup.  I'll of course, be way lame and spend more time updating the Boloney blog about our antics than boarding so stay tuned.

To all the Boloners left on the Island and one DiK near the good lake Champlain, we'll have an extra drink (or seven) for you!

(The picture to the right is the first result for a google image search on "heavenly."  A French metal band.  HA)

And as a special present to all those viewing this, straight from the lodge after the epic Belleayre mission yesterday, is BP eating a full bag of oysters.  Note the crackers exploding out of his mouth at several times.

PA Powder Mission (Blue Gets Browned)

(Continuing on the catch-up, next is our storm chaser mission, tracking another snowpocalypse in the Mid Atlantic)

An early wake-up (5:30AM) started the mission.  We knew the blizzard was coming West to East and PA would be getting it before New York, with heavy accumulations.  So, if it started snowing here, it was likely already a disaster there.  Our destination was initially Camelback, but a last minute audible switched the plan to Blue.

So after a dark and stormy wake-up, I was greeted with a lovely crust of ice and sleet on everything.  Already, I was thrilled with the prospects of the 150 mile drive.  Over to Trafalgar, Dong and Brown mounted up and we headed out to Pennsylvania.  To check out the rest of the story and some video, hit here!

Shreduary Strikes Sugarbush (Slashin' Snow)

In my attempt to catch-up on all the goings on in this already packed with excitement Shreduary, I'll start with the most recent trip up to the infamous G305.

Everyone on the East Coast, and over large tracts of out West too, have spent weeks, if not the whole season griping about the lack of killer snow.  I won't add onto that much as then to state the obvious.  Before we got back to the condo, a classic January rain system swept through the entire North East, and demolished solid snow packs.  Everything froze solid and great conditions were ruined.

So in the days preceding this trip, we all anxiously hoped for a few inches here and there to repair the damage done.  Thankfully, light repairs were made.  With Sugarbush getting something like 10 inches over the span of 10 days and firing their guns at full blast - and it being already February - I really wanted to get up there.  Hit here or the header to read on and get the rest of the run down.

Seen Having Too Much Free Time (GoPro, Oh No!)

With the acquisition of a GoPro a few months back, I've been finding more and more ways to play with it.  In the last 14 days, I've ridden something like 9 different mountains.  In that time I found a whole plethora of uses and awesome ways to get fun shots.  Instead of just rocking it as a helmet cam, I used it as a:  chase cam, selfshot out front, wobbly cam pointing out, time lapse, car cam, and that's just the start of it.  I've seen online all sorts of different ways guys are playing with these things and getting some really neat effects.  As shreduary marches on, I'm sure I'll continue to get some awesome stuff out of it.

In this quick edit I've got some mega fresh pow in Blue Mountain and Cannon, mixed in with some awesome stashes at Saddleback, ME.  For a season that has been lacking snow, the last two weeks have found my cameras - and myself - buried in it on multiple occasions.

I must say, I'm particularly psyched that I was filming myself when I caught an edge and front flipped.  As opposed to trying to protect my body, I kept that awesome fish eye lens pointed right at me.  Wahoo.

The Seen and Tim Show (Boloney Blasts UT: The Sequel)

Whoa!  Would have thought that not having a job would have enabled me to update the blog a whole lot more.  And look at me, I even missed the TWO YEAR anniversary of the Boloney Blog.  What has caused this delay in updates?  Constant shredding of course.  The last 14 days have seen great riding at Sugarbush, a powder day at Blue Mountain, PA, and then a mega Shreduary tour all through New England.  Updates and run downs for all that will come in good time (I'll be on planes and bored a lot), but first I have exciting news.

I've gotten a piece up at SkiTheEast.net - and couldn't be more psyched - and have finished the accompanying edit.  Let's call this piece a condensed version of the three updates I sent while I was in Utah in January.  Hope you enjoy the video and story!  You can get both by clicking the full report here or at the headline.

Shreduary Commences in Five Days (The Bums Win)

Winter is here and my job isn't.  The apartment is in boxes and the furniture on craigslist.  Good bye swamps of the Mid Atlantic, hello True North.

As I take my leave from a big boy job to pursue the dream and become a U.S. tax dollar-sponsored snowboarder, my plans for the great month of Shreduary are in place.  Not familiar with Shreduary?  It's of course somewhere between Shredember and Smarch.  My goal?  Simple.  Attempt to land 15/30 days of snowboarding.  Banged up shin or not, I'm getting the shred on.

Mid week days?  Check.  Out West trips?  Check.  Icy frontier of Maine?  Check.  Everywhere in between?  Yes.  Boloney on hand sandwiches and keystone light?  Check.  Growing a grungy stache and developing that magical boot aroma?  ... well I already did that.

Too further appease Ullr and the rest of the snow gods (Radio Ron included), I make it my solemn duty to rock the award-winning Onesie as much as physically possible.

If this appeals to you, sign up for the Power Seen Shreduary experience now!

And to get you further amped, check out TRice chatting about the North Face Masters at Snowbird:

Words With Travis Rice from The North Face Masters on Vimeo.