Tomorrow will be buttz-to-nutz busy.  Prepare ya self.

Here’s a few snaps and a POV shot with the ContourHD from today (Friday April 9th, 2010):

More pics and vids here: link

Video below: LD Kings Cliff Alpental on Easter Sunday.

Video below of Surfer Blood – Vera Project on Easter Sunday.

Here’s an mp3 of video above.

Hope you got yours…

And by the looks of this week, Winter 2009-2010 is rapidly upgrading itself from “Worst Season Ever”.

I feel like a jerk Winter….i shouldn’t have said those things.

Pow good enough to wreck in!

And not wreck.

(Image courtesy of this guy.)

Alas, there are some dudes out there standing out. Absinthe Films has pretty much got it right since day one. Travis Rice’s Community Project a couple years ago was rad. Now he’s gone ballz out on a new flick with some heavy $$ backing by Red Balls and Quiksilver.

That’s It, That’s All, Rice’s second movie is slated to premiere in Seattle on October 11th. The teasers are sick as shit. Lotsa pow and jumping and jumping into pow. They used some retarded expensive super gyro HD camera mounted on a helicopter to film a big part of the movie complete with pow and nature–even wild life!

So if you stoke on the Discovery Channel and snowboarding this movie is for you.

Def peep all the Trailers here: http://www.thatsit-thatsall.com/

The weekend opened with 12″ of new at Alpental on Saturday. Complete with an uphill skier race snaking the mountain from bottom to top back down Nash, through Snake Dance and back up to Piss Pass. All through thigh deep pow too. Pretty hardcore. Somehow i avoided colliding with one of these doods who were hiking right up the Fan.

The race resulted in the closure of Snake Dance almost all day, and the closure of the backcountry all day. Here we were, end of the season, not riding slushy park but riding thigh deep pow at Alpental (the best riding in Washington State) yet we couldn’t go in the BC but all these other manic ski doods could?! F that. F you.

Sunday was just as crowded with 9 more inches of even colder snow. Ride more pow? Sure why not. It seemed weird though…like something was off to be riding this much pow this time of year. The A-man made a rare Sunday appearance, Clem was nowhere to be found, Petersen rode two days in a row, Otter/Kopafeel both stayed home and i didn’t duck a rope once.

Ski Patrol finally legally opened BC around 1. They decided it would be a great idea to start posting a volunteer patroller at the gate. They actually asked to see my pass. Which i actually did have on my person. So i actually was able to get in while everyone else just went low around the patroller and got in anyways.

Needless to say, everything worked out. Everyone got tons of turns, snowballs were thrown, skiers were heckled, beer was drank and face shot were had.

Here are a few pics from last weekend.

Here’s a video of the sequence pic above. S.Petersen is filmer.

Click here to view the embedded video.

The A-man dropped a bomb post on his site recapping the weekend. Check it.

Called my peeps Sunday morning and managed to round up Otter and Snowden–both down for a late trip to Crystal.

Left Seattle about 11. Snow on the road the whole way there…and towards Greenwater there was a ton of snow on the road. Kooks in the ditch everywhere, waist high snow banks, and good foot caked on the trees. It looked like it was gonna be sick up at Crystal. We arrived at 1pm to a blizzard. Forest Queen was all that was open…snow was sick though. Hit a bunch of jumps, slashed pow, hosed a few kids. We bailed about 4.

On the ride home ALL the snow on the road, trees, snowbanks were completely melted. Looks like the temp went up about 10 degrees in a couple hours.

Yay winter!