there’s not much oxygen in colorado. vail is too high up, makes riding difficult. however i did finally get to do a lap with Jake Burton today. woohoo!
jibber jabber 
a collection of run on sentences mostly about travel, fashion, technology, formula 1, design and anything else that this worker bee in the vancouver ad industry feels like rambling on about
local hills
headed up to the north shore for a little snowboarding today. man i forgot how much i hate riding on the shore.
short runs and long lines make jon something something…go crazy? actually it made me resort to things like doing seal imitations down the hill. unfortunately, my blubber has gotten slick enough to actually allow for decent sliding.
oh and i love how extreme everybody is up there. mad lineups for six inch high booters. and you know there’s extreme radness going on when you hear the short staccatto “woo!” call of the teenage male snowboarder.
and so it begins
spent the past 3 days up in whistler doing some work. finally managed to get my first day on snow! woohoo! couldn’t have asked for a better first day.
it started off kinda sketchy. super long lineup for the gondola and then they packed us in like sardines. however, just past midstation the gondola started slowing down and stopping. this cycle continued for the next half hour turning a normally 15 minute ride into a 45 minute ordeal. turns out the main bullwheel at the top was overheating.
got to the top to a ton of fresh. literally my first turn of the season was into knee deep pow. that continued on for the rest of the day. riding with a super fun posse including sollors and robin, two of our sponsored riders.
my new Ions are killing me. they seem tighter this year. hopefully they’ll break in OK otherwise i’m fucked. broke in the new AK pants and the Mark XIII Paul Smith jacket. loving it. so nice and dry.
oh…and i’m out of shape. oeuf.
burton acquires surf co.
wow! burton picked up channel island surfboards today. not being a surfer it doesn’t really matter that much to me but it gives me an excuse to put up a surf shot. read the press release after the jump.
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back in the day
got sent a link today to a video on the cbc that made me all nostalgic. a news clip from 1985 up at mt. seymour about the newfangled sport of snowboarding.
my first day snowboarding was just after christmas in 1987.
my brother had just come back from australia where he had tried snowboarding and insisted
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down under
well my friend eddie has been hanging out down on the south island in NZ for the summer and just sent this lovely picture that makes me very jealous. he has this to report:
it snowed and they closed the crown range so i couldnt get to work. turned my car around, drove to coronet peak and did a slash instead. fun.
bastard
Burton x ?
For the 07 board line we’ve teamed up with:
Hiroki Nakamura
Billy Anderson
Erik Siador
Nate VanDyke
Mark Mulroney
Eric Bailey
Travis Millard
Jari Salo
Nathan Nedorostek
Kenta Goto
Usugrow
Andy Jenkins
James Jean
Tyler Stout
Steven Harrington
Martin Kvamme
Saber One
Thomas Campbell
Faulk Klemm
Cory Hudson
Jeff Proctor
Andy Mueller
Not bad huh?